Originally Posted by
Kurt Busiek
I wrote a three-part Lady-Killer serial in ULTRAVERSE PREMIERE, but don't go out hunting for it; it wasn't very good.
I thought it was an interesting line, and enjoyed reading various of the books -- NIGHT MAN, THE STRANGERS and PRIME were the ones I remember following most. But I suspect it was the talent involved more than the series concepts that really made it go, so if the characters were going to be written by people other than their creators (as they were, more and more, toward the end), I lost interest.
I liked THE STRANGERS, for instance, and would have liked to see it run for a good long time. But then, I like Steve Englehart comics. If given a choice between THE STRANGERS written by someone else or a different super-team by Steve, I think I'd be following Steve more than the Strangers.
So I don't feel any great loss at not seeing Marvel revive the Ultraverse -- other than wishing that friends of mine who created various of the characters would get nice royalties and licensing money off them. But I'm not in any hurry to see new people revamp, rework and revive the characters. Reprint collections would be nice, though.
The characters I want to see Marvel rope into the Marvel Universe, now that they're owned by Disney, are The Gargoyles. I think that'd fit really well.
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