“Is it that ridiculous to imagine the best of the Ultimate line somehow becoming embedded within the regular Marvel U in the near future?”

What, like a black Nick Fury? Nah, never happen.

It seems unnecessary, doesn’t it? DC’s original Crisis was the result of having a lot of titles that weren’t a part of the mainstream DCU. Marvel has, what, four?

If that is what they’re planning, then I would think it’s coming from on high, aka Disney. Perhaps they think that the lack of movie ticket sales translating into comic sales is because not every comic actually takes place in the Marvel U.

There’s probably something to that, at least as far as Ultimate Spider-man is concerned. I’m sure people looking for a book based on the cartoon are confused by two different Ultimate Spider-man titles.

I hope you’re right, Graeme, if for no other reason than I hope DC follows in their footsteps, keeping what’s worked from the New 52, and giving their long time fans the rich history they miss.

Ah, but remember Iron Man’s map of the future from back in 2010′s Avengers #5. The event after “Ultron War” is “Infinite Futures.” The “future map” has been astonishingly accurate, so it could be that Infinity was also part of the grand plan….

@Kyle Garrett

No and no

First, was that linked preview to 4 pages of wordless pictures suppose to be familiar to fans of the New Universe? specifically the “alien” with the big eyes and no nose (or some tall helmet)? Admittedly my knowledge of the New Universe is … basically the Starbrand and The Pitt, but was that really something NU fans recognized?

Second, as far as a Marvel Infinit[y] Crisis, yes, I’ve long argued both DC and Marvel should simply embrace the idea of reboots. Yes, reboots, plural, cyclical reboots, as they seem to have them basically once a decade. They could use them to dump the story elements that didn’t work (I’m looking at you “Sins Past”, “Brand New Day”, and much of Joey Q’s obsessive denial of Peter Parker and Mary Jane’s growth / marriage, convoluted X-Men history, the New 52 scenes of Batman and Catwoman having sex without knowing each other’s real identities or the horrible portrayal of Starfire)–while retaining stories that did work (Iron Man going public and mimicking his Robert Downey Jr portrayal over the lame Civil War version, Aquaman finally showing he more than capable of being heroic out of water, rainbow of Lanterns establishing the mythos of Lanterns and colors and emotions).

Plus if readers don’t care for choices made in a particular cycle of reboots, there’s always hope that a future reboot will be more to their liking.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.comics.dc.universe/mS72YbKSQ4A/EWE9nxQT8x8J

THIS would get me reading Marvel again.

I hope they do it. Mush everything together : 616, NU, Ultimate, CrossGen, Marvelman.

That’s genuinely exciting.