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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DanMcS" data-source="post: 2355390" data-attributes="member: 6530">So, I mainly read Ultimate X-Men and The Ultimates.  I typically wait until they're out in paperback form, because single issues of comics are so short that they bore me.  So I'm not into Ultimates 2 yet, for instance, because it hasn't been collected.I keep hearing recommendations for Ultimate Spider-Man, but it's up to like a dozen paperbacks and jumping into it right now is kind of intimidating.  You guys all love this one, right?I read Ultimate Nightmare (which had a subtitle that totally gave away the ending, what the hell was that about).  The paperback claims to be part 1 of 3, but I don't see any other Ultimate Nightmare comics anywhere, even single issues.  There is one called Ultimate Secret, which seems like it might be the "book 2" to UN, is that right?And now there's Ultimate Fantastic Four, Ultimate Elektra, and Ultimate Iron Man, right?  Was there ever a Ultimate Daredevil standalone book, because it seems weird that elektra got hers before him.  What issues are these all up to, and how many paperbacks are there?I've tried to figure this all out by perusing the shelves at the comic store, and I'm a bit befuddled.  Love the books, but if the Ultimate series are supposed to be the simplified, less-backstory reboots of Marvel series, they're losing the simplified less-backstory part as fast as they can shovel out new books.</blockquote>