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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mog Elffoe" data-source="post: 1603944" data-attributes="member: 793">I can see where you're coming from, Villano, but if they're good stories why not enjoy them for what they are?  The 2099 and New Universe lines went away because they didn't sell well (I don't know exact numbers, and what was considered a profitable book back then is probably way different than nowadays.)  The Ultimate line of books are consistently at the top the of the charts.  I'd be willing to say it's at least partially because they're good books.  I remember back in the day when those NU books came out.  I got every one of them.  The first six or so issues of Star Brand were pretty good, what with John Romita Jr doing the artwork, and I really liked a lot of the ideas and concepts in DP7, but the rest of those books simply were NOT GOOD.  I did pick up a few of the 2099 books.  Spider-Man 2099 had a few moments that were so-so and I liked the concepts for the Doom 2099 book, but again the rest were just NOT GOOD and these two slipped in quality very fast.  Quality talent is currently working  on the Ultimate titles and that shows.  I don't always like everything they do but their track record isn't bad at all.  I don't see the Ultimate books going away any time soon at all.I LOVE the Essential books Marvel's been putting out.  I LOVE reading the classic Spider-Man stories.  I also LOVE Ultimate Spider-Man.  There's no reason not to enjoy the best of both worlds, man.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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