15 - I'm wondering what is going to happen to the Ultimate Marel Universe

Let me preface this by saying that I am going to free style my thoughts on this as I go, so hopefully it makes sense and is semi interesting.

So, I'm a big fan of the Marvel Ultimate line of books and have been for a long time. Since issue 30 or so of Ultimate Spiderman i was hooked on this part of marvel. I got everything except Marvel Adventures, whatever that was. Today I have almost full runs of every Ultimate book  in issue form except Ultimate Marvel Team-ups and Ultimate Vision. I think what drew me toward these books was the completest in me, with this universe just starting I actually had it within my reach to own entire runs of stories, and this was something I could not do with the normal Marvel U. Anyway the last few years there has been a lot of contraction in the UMU where in years before they grew by adding new characters through mini series, guest appearances and what not. Now since Ultimatum they seem to have done nothing but kill characters off. I do not know how I feel about this yet because I have to read in order to judge. So ill have to see how it goes as it it is coming a long. My buddy thinks that they are trying to kill off the Ultimate line, which kind of makes sense, but now I am seeing solicitations for essentially a new line of Ultimate books which kinds of blows that theory out of the water.

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I am sad to see that Peter Parker is dead though, but they seem to have just remade him into, supposedly, a black/Latino kid, and from what I read in the Ultimate Fallout series he seems to be the exact same character while in costume. That is, he has all the one liners fully loaded. I am super sad to see Pete go and I really do not know how you replace him, but ill probably read every issue trying to figure that out.

I did not plan on continuing with the new Ultimate X book because the premise was weird to me, but since so few issues have come out I picked it up anyway. I find it hard to really see where it is going and it seems like they are really dragging out the story by developing each new character in their own issue. I will keep getting it now to see where it is going cause I am interested in what they are trying to say, but if it suck I'll be happy anyway because they are comics.

As for the UMU overall I still love it even though most of the characters I loved are dead, and this is because even my not favorite characters are still pretty awesome.