FF question

[shooshoomanjoe]

Several days ago, I started to read the Ultimate Universe from the beginning. I'm up to the Fantastic Four series and I noticed that the continuity isn't right. The in the FF series, Reed Richards goes from middle school straight to the Baxter Building were genius kids learn/experiment. In issue #3, Ben Grimm says that Reed didn't have to go to high school or college. Yet in Marvel Team-Up, whichever was Iron Man's 1st appearance, it says that both Tony Stark and Reed Richards went to Harvard together. Also, Ultimate Fantastic Four reads as it's happening several years after Tony was in college. Is the FF continuity off?

[wyokid]

Team ups continuity is screwy. It was basically written before everything else was planned out

[Dispenser Of Truth]

Team ups continuity is screwy. It was basically written before everything else was planned out

Exactly. The original Ultimates volume mentioned the Fantastic Four as an existing team, and in UFF volume 1, Reed's immediate response upon seeing a weird threat for the first time is "we should get the Ultimates!". And that's not counting the team-up book starring Spider-Man that had him encounter an "Ultimate Fantastic Four" years earlier that showed a very traditional version of the team. Or Peter's adventures as Spider-Man starting while he was 15 and ending shortly after his 16th birthday, even though the actual noted timeskips in his book (6 months later, 3 months later, etc.) are themselves almost if not in fact more than a year. Ultimate continuity was always screwy like that.

[klefmung]

Exactly. The original Ultimates volume mentioned the Fantastic Four as an existing team, and in UFF volume 1, Reed's immediate response upon seeing a weird threat for the first time is "we should get the Ultimates!". And that's not counting the team-up book starring Spider-Man that had him encounter an "Ultimate Fantastic Four" years earlier that showed a very traditional version of the team. Or Peter's adventures as Spider-Man starting while he was 15 and ending shortly after his 16th birthday, even though the actual noted timeskips in his book (6 months later, 3 months later, etc.) are themselves almost if not in fact more than a year. Ultimate continuity was always screwy like that.

Also, someone at Oscorp in one of the first couple of USM issues referencing a paper written by "Reed R...," though Bendis might have lift the "ichards" off to leave room for a different FF take later.