Why Marvel killed the Ultraverse and keeps it buried.

[shadroch]

How would Marvel justify paying some creators royalties for twenty year old books while denying them to newer and more popular ones?

[Indrid_Cold]

At a minimum, Marvel is still trying to keep Exiles going. I just remembered they had a series a few years back. Perhaps this is also true for a few of the other Ultraverse titles? Let me dig a bit....

[Indrid_Cold]

Exiles is the only example that I can find that was published within the last few years. Not sure why Marvel would continue to try that particular title but not some of the others.

[Indrid_Cold]

Oh wait, I now see that although using the title of Exiles in 2009, looks like it may have actually been only Marvel characters, not Ultraverse characters....

[THB]

Totally diff concept. No Ultraverse characters.

 

[Indrid_Cold]

Yep, I noticed that after the fact, doh

[DeliBebek]

Yep, I noticed that after the fact, doh

I think Marvel figured out that "Exiles" was a half-decent name for an X-related book. The 100-issue series was based on characters from various realities with ties to the X-Men - mostly built around the Age of Apocalypse favorite Blink.

 

Weird thing about the first Exiles series, Steve Gerber's whole concept was to introduce the team as a legitimate long-term project, but in actuality to cut it short suddenly with everyone's death! That's why the Ultraverse's first Exile series was only four issues.

[Indrid_Cold]

Ahhh ok that explains why Marvel would still be putting out "Exiles" books but not other Ultraverse stuff. Since its not anything to do with the Ultraverse team, don't pay any royalties from the Ultraverse contract/license.

 

I vaguely remember the Exiles from Ultraverse , but I never read any of the Marvel re-launches in 95, 2001 or 2009. I had just assumed they had brought some or all of the original team back. But it sounds like Marvel merely re-used only the title.

[otherworldcomics]

Marvel did a "Black September" event to relaunch the titles and then pretty much junked them all with bad art and bad writing. They threw Juggy on the "All new " Exiles for all of like half a minute they pulled him back to the main X-men books in time for the Onslaught event I believe.

[Shaven Kev-migration]

Nightman was pretty cool...if a Shadowman knock off...didnt it have a tv show?

[Shaven Kev-migration]

Haha I forget he even played sax