A Little Less Ultimate
I just learned that as of issue #110, Mark Bagley is leaving Ultimate Spider-man. This is a sad, sad day.
While I know that Bagley and Bendis, who is staying, have had one of the longest runs as a creative team in comics history (with #103 it *will* be the longest run) this just kills me. Bagley's art is just so much a part of the Ultimate universe that when he worked on The Pulse the only way I could tell it wasn't his Ultimate stuff was how Ben Urich looked.
But seriously, I just want to take a minute here and thank Bagley and Bendis both for the tremendous work that they have put into this book. For years now I have looked forward to this book every month, and unlike so many others this one has never dropped the ball. The quality of work they put in has never wavered, even when they were putting out 18 issues a year. Think about that for minute, 18 issues a year. Hell, lot's of books have a problem getting 12 out in a year. So thank you, thank you very much. And I wish you luck in whatever you do next, which I'm sure I'll be reading.
-Dan
posted by Star Clipper at Sunday, August 27, 2006
1 Comments:
Just a note that Ultimate Spidey isn't the longest run by a single creative team in comics history, just simply as far as Marvel superhero comics go. Dave Sim and Gerhard did 235 issues of Cerebus together, and actually, Mark Evanier and Sergio Aragones did 120 consecutive issues of Groo The Wanderer for Epic, which was a Marvel imprint, so it's not even the longest running by a single team Marvel has ever published.
Not to belittle the accomplishments of Bendis and Bagley, of course, just putting them in context....
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