Best practice is run it on eras with a reboot event every now and then

From what I am seeing actually quite a lot of people are enjoying Ultimate X-Men. Not everyone but that tends to be the older audience that want what they grew up with. I am fine with the Ultimate X-Men series. I am enjoying it a lot.

Always leave them wanting more ..

Mr Perch, there’s a type of person that doesn’t want to compete. Are there too many non-competitors in comics?

But what do you know your just some Perch :)

Perch, look at the quality of people in the industry and ask if they are *capable* of this introspection first. They aren’t competitors, man. Great take. Kinda just applies to Life in general.

I love Peach's art so much.

The new Tom King run is the worst. It completely ignores any continuity and I feel like Diana is autistic in it. Every issue she says, 'No thank you', like it's supposed to be some powerful catch phrase. Ugh. So awful. Azzarello's run has been the best written, by far, so far. I think Azz went a little far with the whole 'Amazons seduce and kill sailors' bit, which probably turned off a bunch of WW's core fans (though I could live with it, honestly), the whole take on the gods was cool, and the greek god family was becoming interesting. Now... she just sucks.

The last great marvel event, before the dark times.

"Fuck All of YOU" Like a freaking Boss, Man, Thanks for this! You are a great Couch!!

I get that people think Ultimate X-Men coming out faster would improve it, but the art is suffering already as is. It's a bit simpler, and it's not as detailed or as colorful as Peach Momoko's art in Demon Days and Demon Wars. I don't know if there's a way for her to draw faster and maintain quality, unless she only did the writing, and maybe there were alternating artists (who shared a similar art style). Like, Greg Capullo and Gleb Melnikov, or Viktor Bogdanovic. Heck, why not all 3 of them? Maybe calling it Ultimate New Mutants or Ultimate X-Factor would at least make it sound better. Still, I don't understand how people came into reading it and expecting 90s X-Men. Like, Peach Momoko's covers have been selling for the past 1-2 years, and some people thought her art style would look like something else? I swear, I've read reviews and they'd say "I dislike the art style". Did people come crawling out from under rocks and never see Peach Momoko variant covers before?

It's definitely better than most of the Krakoan era books. I'm enjoying the book very much, personally.

I believe a better title for the book would've been Ultimate New Mutants. The book has more of a 1980s Sienkiewicz feel to it, with storylines like Demon Bear and Legion, than an X-Men established team book feel. I'm buying it, I'm reading it, and I'm enjoying it,...but, it's not X-Men. I feel Ultimate New Mutants would be more appropriate for the storyline, as well as the stylized art.

Hey Perch! I dropped ULTIMATE X-MEN off of my pull list after Issue #4. I was so excited for it leading up. I love Peach Momoko's work. And I was willing to give it a chance. I didn't read her DEMON DAYS but I did check out her STAR WARS VISIONS issue of which was different and artsy, something to interpret. And I'm a huge fan of her cover art. Now there are things I like about UXM like the cultural cues at the end of the issues. And the art is great. I like Hisako "Armor" as a character too. But this book literally bummed me out and isn't fun at all. We have 5 heroic female leads and Zero boys. The male characters are victims, a creepy host for The Shadow King, and Maystorm's physically abusive father. At least "Surge" Noriko Ashida has a tiny bit of iconic X-Men look to her outfit. But it's a little boring. It's not fun. It's kinda just a Shojo Manga...built for girls. X-Men is a high octane action adventure books for Girls AND Boys, Women AND Men. This realization was depressing. I don't want to spend my money or my attention here. What a bummer. This book bums me out. I get hopefully this could be a gateway for some manga readers to try something MARVEL and perhaps they can release a tankobon format for this and see what happens. But darn...hey I'm glad you like it. I wanted to like it and there are aspects to it I do like but hey...it's not made for me. I hope whomever this is made for shows up and supports this. Thanks.

I bought the first 2 then dipped

I'm all about the long game give me like three years of Pregnant MJ. You won't even be able to tell until like the last year anyway. And honestly it has plenty of story potential. Like I know we did this once already in the 90s but they were trying to sideline them at that point so it didn't get a lot of focus. Could be interesting to see her navigate the modeling/acting thing while Pregnant. Give her new roles she couldn't get elsewhere. Peter finally has to finish his degree and get a real job so he can feel like he's supporting family, etc. As for UXM, I'm enjoying it and though we only have the flawed charts it seems to be relatively popular, still in the top ten in June. I definitely wish it, and frankly all the Ultimate line, was bi-weekly, as I think the pacing would feel bettter in that case, but that's really my only complaint. I think it's true that the book doesn't feel like "X-Men" or evne really a part of the rest of the Ultimate U and instead feels like it was just an excuse to give Momoko an ongoing, but I'm kind of ok with that.

I don't understand why people say to give it time, the first issue of X-Men ever has the original 5 fighting Magneto. I don't understand why a person who never even read X-Men is writing an X-Men book. X-Men is a superhero book, not some slice of life shoujo crap. If they pulled this with Ultimate Spider-Man people would be rightfully pissed (and they were when there was a book with nothing but Peter, Harry, MJ, and Gwen eating dinner for 20 pages straight).

I really like the idea of the X-men being a group of kids dealing with a relatively small villain

Besides Immortal Thor, the ultimate line are the only comics I’m reading at Marvel.

Wow. Spidey fighting the devil. Sounds pretty lame.

That was kind of my impression: looks like a cute little manga, but why is it titled X-Men?

Sorry, Perch, but this doesn't feel applicable to me. I'm not about to lie to myself or others over my skills and talents. Being Number 1 and being successful are not necessarily the same thing. I may be able to draw pretty well, but I am not "the best," not "Number 1." However, that does not mean I'm untalented or underserving of respect.

It's not for me. ❌ But of course, not everything has to be for me. 🤷 I just like being the one to make that decision. 😁

I might be in the minority, but as long as the main title is bad, I don't really care about alternate versions of the title. If X-Men was doing better, I'd be tempted to pick it up. As it is, I don't want to read any new X-Men titles from Marvel, until they right their ship.

The Return of the Ultimate books had a warm welcome back and it quickly turned by Issue three. It was a good CHANGE of pace but , quickly everyone notice that you can change a leopards spots but its still the same animal .

There was a one-shot called Kid Venom Origins that came out a few months back that was another great manga-inspired book. It has some new issues coming out soon.

Late to the party but I just caught up and there isn’t a bad issue. Not the best ever but consistency is important. It’s why I loved Crossgen and Valiant/Acclaim.

Thank you! Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person enjoying Ultimate X-Men. All the people complaining that "Western comics need to be more like manga" and when they get it, they're suddenly unhappy. Almost like people prefer to just be angry online?

I love mangas but Ultimate X-men don't grabbed my atenttion. I droped after the first issue.

Hey, you read my email. For once all these years. 1.) You are a month too early to talk about this. Cause first arc of Peach Momoko’s x men will be complete in *August* Issue 5 is not out yet. 2.) Yes I did go on. It is Call theories and predictions. Remember what that like? Having fun conversations about comic book. For example. What Surge’s Goal in ultimate X Men? I believe she is part of Sunfire’s Alliance. Who is gonna be wolverine since 6160 version of Logan dead? It’s obviously his son, Akihiro. That is why I believe Hellverine should be 616 Akihiro’s final story and he dies at the end. So his 6160 counterpart will be more prominent in ultimate x men. And since you show Natsu, my prediction is she is mostly likely Cyclops’ daughter. I think her mother might be *Colleen Wing* you know Colleen Wong is a love interest for cyclops that Chris Claremont originally planned before Madelyne Pryor. And Colleen Wing is Japanese. I first thought it was Psylocke(Kwannon who never swap bodies with Betsy Braddock) but it is unlikely now. The theories is one reason to convey to care about the series. The other reason they comic still lean idea being feared and hated. Like Hisako is ostracized and isolated from her peers after her friend Tsubasa(you make know him as Wing, Perch) committed suicide. Even when Hisako is isolated she still found a friend, MayStorm who is outcast just like her. The comic still leans on the mutants allegory of outsiders and misfits. That is the one point. I do believe issue 5 will put in more political part since Surge’s reveals Hisako’s mutant powers in the internet. Also issue 4 gave a cool fight scene. Of that Shadow tries possessing Hisako but she fight the shadow in her mind. 9:34 it is a crime that Heir of Apocalypse get a bi weekly release and Steve Orlando’s annihilation 2099 comic gets a weekly release but not Peach Momoko’s Ultimate x Men does not. A Crime, I say! 10:15 I found out only the trades of Ultimate X Men and Ultimate Black Panther are gonna have 4 issues. While the other trades of Hickman’s spider man and the ultimate is gonna have whole 6 issues. What is going on in Marvel? Why X Men and Black Panther are the only two comics that are missing a quarter of their first Arc? If you have a trade you need the whole story. 11:19 Well they did that already and it is gone. There is only Marvel Manga the only one is currently going is Spider-Man: Octopus-Girl. He transfer his mind into a Japanese elementary school girl. But yeah like something like Viz Media can actually give Peach Momoko’s x men a better chance Sakura Spider from Deadpool manga still appears in Spiderverse. Again I would call it Ultimate X as I say again, it feels like a Prologue. But I got feeling is gonna be more like X Men later on. Since issue 7 reveals that Psylocke is gonna be the mentor of the main cast of mutants. I like to see what is Kwannon’s life was when she never swap bodies with Betsy Braddock. You think she was a Member of the hand? Would Ogun be her rival? Also how does Rogue fits in Peach Momoko’s X Men? The time I remember Rogue was in japan is she helps Logan fights Silver Samurai and Viper. Since 6160 Logan is dead, Rogue and him never met. How Rogue gets into Japan? She might be already a student of Psylocke before Hisako and the others join the x men.

I can't figure out if I like the new Ultimate U. I WANT to like it. Reminder that we're reading an Age of Apocalypse type event. The world is wrong, people know it, and they're trying to fix it. Original Ultimate was a reboot, not an offshoot.

I know some fans aren't lving this, but I have been loving it so far. It's probably my 2nd fav ultimate comic so far.

Well Claremont didn't rule the X-Men with an iron hand. Tho Claremont had struggles with Cockrum, Byrne, Paul Smith and Romita Jr and Silvestri were not his first choice, Claremont was collaborative. Enough so that Cockrum, Byrne, Alan Davis had said no to plot lines. Not in a disrespectful way, but they would say no to X-Men as Circus performers or Rogue Phoenix or even an artist like Silvestri needing to trim a plot. From an editor stand point, you could see that Claremont was malleable as far as the plot and he was able to change his plots even if he would save an idea for later. By the time Jim Lee came along, Claremont had a clear idea of where he wanted to go with the X-Men and they would have been very different with the Shadow King, Storm as a small kid, Wolverine losing his adamantium and Mutant Human struggle becoming more like Rachel future, not exactly like Day of the Future past, but close with the hounds. Bob Harras, who probably said no to some of Claremont's ideas was outright rejecting Claremont ideas in an X-Men summit as per Liefeld. Ideas for Wolverine couldn't happen because it would mess with Larry Hama. Claremont's idea for X-Men number 1 was entirely different... and if not for Harras and Jim Lee, Claremont would have never brought the original back save Jean or Beast. They say that Xavier was supposed to die. So from the Editorial side, Harras was more like, he's said no to a ton of Claremont's plots... and as said, he saw the Artist as the talents driving the book. Harras had already pushed Louise Simonson out for Rob Liefeld. Harras was less inclined to edit his artists, since he was clearly planning on riding their success and excepting stick figure plots and late books.

Ya the pacing is the killer. 20 pages a month. When weekly shonen jump gives us 19 pages a week for 20 series in one magazine every single week. Ya this has color but that doesnt do anything for the story and the pacing.

Thanks for this. I saw the bad reviews and haven’t tried this book. Maybe I will pick it up now and read it with a different attitude.

0:44 Yes! If Marvel really cared about Miles the would let Peter grow up. Because as it's stand now regressing Peter this much has stunted both his and Miles growth as charcters.

At least at my shop the two fill-in issues on Ultimate Spider-Man dampened interest a bit.

Been wanting to try this title. You've sold me on it.

This comic is selling well.

If Marvel would release Ultimate X-Men in a Viz TPB format for $15 and sell it at B&N and other bookstores, it would prolyl be Marvel's best selling TPB. The monthly floppy format just doesn't work for it's target audience. I think Marvel would have more success just licensing their superheroes to Viz and let Viz create, market, and sell these manga Marvel stories.

I want to see Peter fighting his way through Hell and encountering the souls of his fallen foes with him building an alliance with a few of them.

I seen reviews & it doesn’t seem like an X-Men comic at all.

Luv ultimate x-men 😊

The huge problem with the ultimates is that they’re trying to make it a fusion of the regular marvel comics avengers, and the MCU. The original ultimate were essentially a government sanctioned super team. That book and original ultimate universe can’t be topped by both the story and the art.

I just got into Ranma 1/2 because of your video and I'm really enjoying it. But there is a lingering sadness to me that at some point, I'm going to reach the end and I wouldn't have new adventures in that world

I’ve already got the title “Spiderman reclaim your vows”

Why call it X-Men in the first place?

Peach always has a line at the cons I’ve been at but her Marvel comics are just manga lite.

It's something different, but I'm fine with that.

Online drama dont cut sales too much because they are already low. But good online buzz boost sales.