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Gen

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"Off topic X Men question" , posted Fri 30 Aug 00:16

Are the various X-Men titles in seperate story-continuities? Ultimate, New, Uncanny, X-tream....?

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Luisinan
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"Re(1):Off topic X Men question" , posted Fri 30 Aug 01:03

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Are the various X-Men titles in seperate story-continuities? Ultimate, New, Uncanny, X-tream....?

Ultimate X-Men is part of the "Ultimate" Marvel Universe. This universe includes other books, sucha s Ultimate Spider-man and The Ultimates.

The other x-men books you mentioned are all in the same continuity- the regular, old Marvel Universe continuity. They may not seem like they are in the same continuity, but they are. Its just that lately, each book tries to be self-contained. Crossovers no longer happen, but characters from one book occasoinally appear in another book. But each book has a distinctive cast that their respective writer focus's on. New X-Mena nd Uncanny seem to share Xavier, but that's it. The other X-Men pop in and out of the books where they are not regular cast members though. X-Treme X-Men is doing their own thing, so they hardly communicate with anyone.

You might wonder why Marvel is publishing books in two continuities, the "Ultimate" continuity and the same, old, Marvel continuity. The reason Marvel made the Ultimate books, and thus the "Ultimate" continuity was to bring in new readers. The Ultimate books are easier to pick up and read without prior knowledge of past events or histories. I think its working out alright. I get books from both sets of continuities. I only stop getting books if I don't like the writer or the direction of the book. I don't get X-Treme cause I don't like Claremont's writing style. And stopped getting Uncanny cause Casey was doing a poor job with his stories.

Go read X-Statix. Go buy comic books. If you're not, then you really are missing out on something good. Comics have really come a long way in terms of quality artwork and storytelling. If you like a certain genre and want to pick up a good book, let me know and I can probably recommend you a good book.

Gen

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"Re(2):Off topic X Men question" , posted Sun 8 Sep 17:34:

Thanks. Sounds like they are slowly learning. The industry over did it with cross overs some years ago. That's a good idea, let the different teams have their own areas so they don't trudge on other team's stories.

"Go read X-Statix. Go buy comic books. If you're not, then you really are missing out on something good. Comics have really come a long way in terms of quality artwork and storytelling. If you like a certain genre and want to pick up a good book, let me know and I can probably recommend you a good book. "

I got an issue of New X men, I think they're attempts to make a more realistic story of mutants detracted from the entertainment value.

I read Ultimate Spiderman and Ultimate X-men in the store. They were sub. I think I wouldn't like them even if I had no familiarity with any of the characters. Why can't Spiderman be more of a cool guy?

I read the issues of Cable that are on Marvel.com. I actually wanted to check out more Cable work by the same ream.
Really I wanted to know the rest of the New X-men story also but not quite enough to pay for more issues of it. I might pick up the trade paper back for Cable.

I think I'd be impressed with high maturity levels in any aspect of comic making. Any comics you know come to mind? Maturity being like adult-ness, and unchildishness, but not necessarily "rated R" and up, or violence and gore. Ya know what I mean? I'm not all anti violence and gore either though, they can be entertainment when done right in fiction.

[this message was edited by Gen on Sun 8 Sep 17:57]