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And I think that they should stay COMPLETELY AWAY from original stories; the line's existence is based upon the concept of re-telling the OMU's greatest stories in a contemporary/realistic/relevant way. So, until they catch up....MAKE MINE (Ultimate) MARVEL!

'NUFF SAID! (...and other Stan-isms!)

Let's kill Uncle Ben again! let's kidnap and torture the X-men! let's send Captain America to the bottom of the ocean again! let's make the Wasp and Giant Man beat each other up! let's gun down Cap as a traitor! let's kill the Hulk! let's KILL KILL KILL off members of the X-men! let's turn the Beast into a freak again!

My regulars (issues and trades):
DC: JSA, Green Arrow
Marvel: Exiles, Nova(If its anything like Annhilation), Irreedable Ant-Man
Image: Walking Dead, Invincible
Additional titles I check out because they look interesting (taken from my purchases this past month):
DC: 4
Marvel: 5
Marvel is doing pretty well, but I also tend to buy a lot of non-mainstream continuity titles. I no longer purchase anything like Avengers and X-Men now. Its all stuff outside of the constant giant continuity-cluge.

As I mentioned in one of the weekly threads, it seems there are two Peter Davids and Ed Brubakers - one David constantly delivers "the shit" with X-Factor and the other constantly "shits" on FNS-M. Same thing with Brubaker - one delivers "the shit" with Captain America, while the other "shits" on Uncanny X-Men (though, out of fairness, it is better than X-Men...yeah, that's not saying a whole helluva lot. However, that team has Rogue, one of my favorite characters, on it.)

That said, I used to think Jemas was to blame for all of the potential Marvel woes. Guess I was wrong. I find myself anticipating DC books more than Marvel's. And, as I also mentioned in a weekly thread, during Brevoort's Civil War cover our asses Q&A at Newsarama, DC should be commended for putting out (soon-to-be) 46 weekly books during their "main" event, while Marvel screwed the pooch by fucking up 7 monthly books (which were also tied in to specific storylines through the MU).

Delays and crossovers aside, I don't think you can REALLY claim that this is the lowest point Marvel's sunk to in 30 years.. I mean c'mon, look back at some of the crap the 90's shoveled out (they just recently put out a Marvel Handbook for that era, and it's a little painful reliving some of the memories). I do think that Quesada is doing a good job business-wise... crossovers make money and thus they make sense, and I'm sure the trade collections of Civil War will make a mint. And by all accounts, Annihilation was a great event...

That said, I'm reading less Marvel than I ever have before... I used to be hooked on every X-title out there, and after taking a year or so off I couldn't make heads or tails of what was going on anymore (besides Astonishing). They pretty much "write for the trade" nowadays, so much so that I don't collect any monthly marvel titles.


But to say Quesada is a failure for not staying true to his principles as a fan? Like others have said before, he's a businessman, and he's reeling people in left and right. I remember there was another thread here that said that we deserve the current state of the comic book industry because we blindly support it. The small sample of fans here might be more selective, but until there's a huge backlash against crossovers, they'll continue to happen.

Reflecting on my Marvel purchases of late, I realized that I'm mostly buying the reprint tpb's like the classic Captain America & Falcon, Thor Eternal's Saga, Classic New Mutants, Champions, Black Panther, Omega the Unknown, etc. Also just bought Essentials like Ms. Marvel and Spectacular Spider-Man v.3. As for new stuff, I get the Punisher Max, Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate Fantastic Four hardcovers (Daredevil too if they ever publish any more). Not a lot of new Marvel turns me on right now.