Daredevil Message Board

TheManWithoutFear · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:00 pm Post subject: Ultimate Daredevil?

All right, so I know how Ultimate Central fans feel. I know how a few of you feel but I like to see numbers so with Joe Q's recent statement about no Daredevil, Ghostrider in the Ultimate Universe, I want to see your reactions. How do the Daredevil fans feel? You can just vote here and post your opinions in the discussion threads already open.
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DDmikeMN · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:22 pm Post subject:

Yes, I'd like to see an on-going. Do I think it's necessary? Not really. It's like having two Iron Man titles right now. Nice but I wasn't itching for two.

Goddess0Whim · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:46 pm Post subject:

honestly, it might be interesting as an expirament. but that's just the socio-anthro side of me speaking.
i don't think DD should have an on-going UU series.
he's popped up, yes, he's had supporting roles yes.
but if they were to really Ultimize DD i can only see them rehashing the extreme events of the character's life at this point...
because all the VERY 1st Stan Lee stuff told from his side, i don't know how that could work w/o being almost exactly the same, or having computers?
seriously though, the regular DD title has carried out some very extreme highs and lows and left them at that point (if she's dead she's dead, or if she's dead she doesn't want anything to do w/ you anymore, if they know, they know, PERIOD) where other titles would titles would have created major sagas out of them.
you can't play out a Karen leaving period anymore than it was,
or somone dying period, or a house gone, period, or such and such period.
things happen the end is the story of the story.
so how would you who voted yes, and have seen all these very complicated stories (along w/ the rest of us) play out in the UU,
like to see the DD stories you've already read play out there.
it wouldn't work w/o total breakdown of some sorts.
the character has a habit of finding the middle ground after things happen.
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Lonewolf · Playing to the Camera Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 140

you know how I feel, so yes. There are still characters in the Daredevil universe that I havent even seen in an issue *Mr. Fear for example* so id love to get a chance to see some Daredevil stories that I probably will never see unless they make an Ultimate DD.

james castle · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:44 pm Post subject:

No - for reasons listed in other thread.

In other news: What? Fans who gather at the "Ultimate Central" site want there to be more Ultimate titles? No. I can't and won't believe it.
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TheManWithoutFear · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 2:24 pm Post subject:

james castle · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:43 pm Post subject:

rgj · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 7:14 pm Post subject:

No.

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Stanley · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 7:59 pm Post subject:

To me, the conceit of the name itself is what does it in.

"Ultimate Daredevil".

It basically means "the best Daredevil", when you think about it.

To that i say, "...WHAT, b*tch?"

Daredevil cannot possibly get any more badass than he already is. The DD we see every month is the "ultimate" Daredevil to me. To ultimize something is to admit continuity flaws. But since everybody's been basically trying to either copy Miller or at least take his blueprint and run from there, it essentially means this--and I'll capitalize it and give it a separate space:

DD'S ORIGIN AND SUBSEQUENT EARLY ADVENTURES HAVE BEEN STREAMLINED ENOUGH VIA REGULAR CONTINUITY (Miller's "first attempt at taking the machinery apart and streamlining it", i believe is how he puts it) AND THUS RENDER THE VERY IDEA OF AN ULTIMATE BOOK UNNECESSARY.

Don't think I'm shouting, just...i tend to ramble, so focus on the caps.

Dorian Gray · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:50 pm Post subject:

Since I don't read any other Ultimate titles, I am going to have to say no.

Besides, wasn't the point of the Ultimate line in the first place to reset the characters as teens in todays world? Thats what the did with Ultimate Spiderman and Ultimate X- Men. This just isn't needed for Darevil and would work for him either.

DarkElektraPhoenix · Flying Blind Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 37

I want to see Ultimate Typhoid Mary.
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The Privateer · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:00 am Post subject:

I'll say no, from what I have read, the Ultimate DD & Elektra titles have been poor, I have still bought them though. I agree with the majority, DD has an established history and it doesn't need smoothing over with a new Ultimate line.

I also do not think it will happen as DD is not a big title like Spiderman or Xmen, it would not generate enough sales for them. Sorry everyone, DD is a niche comic, I think that Marvel want the Ultimate line to be for small series to tell a story Ult DD etc and the on-going series are for the what-ifs on the big Marvel stars.

I am not knocking DD in the slightest, one of my faves, but I see the UU as a way of doubling up your stories, as in "I'll buy Amazing Spiderman and also Ult. SM as well", DD does not have the mass market that SM & Xmen are in. I think that Ult FF will not be a long runner, but I have no idea on the sales numbers though so I could be talking a load of rubbish!

That said, I loooooove the Ultimates, Ultimate Nightmare, Ultimate six etc. Ult DD was just a let down. I would love to see an Ult Punisher, Frank killing everyone is always good reading for me.

Make the Ultimate Universe pay Frank.
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zminusx · Playing to the Camera Joined: 05 Oct 2004 Posts: 151

While I think the Ultimate DD/Elektra has been really so so (easy to read but extremely forgettable) I've enjoyed his little guest appearances in other Ultimate books.

So for me...I'm all for it...if care is put into it.

TheManWithoutFear · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 4:47 am Post subject:

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