[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Boy Blunder

Hell, I never even gave two scoops about GotG before Bendis came along, and I'm not ashamed to say that.

Almost nobody gave two scoops about the GotG before the movie was announced. While the DnA cosmic run is rightfully praised as a modern cosmic masterpiece very few people read it because cosmic stories have always had the hardest time attracting readers since they tend to get very heavy into the science fiction. But that story arc eventually ended and then when Marvel decided to give GotG a movie they figured they should start up a new comic to cash in on people's curiosity about this incredibly obscure team. Except they chose Bendis as writer and the book paled in comparison to what we already had, mainly I'd say because the team didn't feel like it was actually trying to save anything beyond its own members.

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Originally Posted by DarkToyLord

oh but you ARE a fan of the Ultimate Universe....what to you think the 616 really is NOW....heh-heh..
man but for real...Ultimate Universe was my shit!!..it GROUNDED everything...it's what the avengers movies are based off of if you ask me... err'body was too goody-goody before then..and not "real-world-ish"

The ultimate universe was okay when it launched, heck some of it was great, but then it turned into "hey let's see how dark and shocking we can get." Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver were made incestuous, the Avengers watched a sex tape, and then tons of characters got killed off-panel by a flood. The worst part about this damage is not how much of it was gratuitous but how much people were confusing it for the mainstream stuff. The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver part in particular has stained the characters across the board, when it was announced the two would debut in the Age of Ultron movie there were a bunch of people saying "there's no way they're keeping the twincest right?" and for me it was like duh since that was never actually a thing in the normal comics and it was done exclusively for shock value. As if people didn't give the character a hard time for M-day they threw on more stigma for one of my favorite Avengers.

On the topic of toys, my local area seems to have dried up which sucks. At some point my walmart got out a Giant-Man case but now it's just Cap hanging around.