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  1. Einherjar
    It says it's been repackaged into the Ultimate Comics line, but not before having a comic book killing spree in the Ultimatum. It's crap like this that makes me hesitant on sticking to a comic book series for a long period of time. And I thought the Ultimate universe would be different.
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    The hell, wikpedia says it's over? In fact, the Ultimate universe is over? What happened? Guess if I ever get back to it I'll be stuck with Joe Quesada's retcon.
  3. Einherjar
    How about Ultimate Spider-Man? I heard some of the crew that started it left near issue 100.
  4. Einherjar
    I bought a couple of the Ultimate Spider-Man collections years ago and thought it's pretty good. But, does anyone know if the quality of the Ultimate universe stories have gone down over the years?
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    Let him and the other detractors come back to the real discussions when the series they're obsessed about finally makes a new movie or animation, whenever that happens. Because as of 2006-07, the only thing their series has shown once again is that they can start a revival/continuation, but can't find a way to end it with some dignity.
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    Maybe those steps I came up on getting popular a while back had more truth in them than I thought. They were mostly a joke back then, but maybe. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...st&p=775099 Macross may have whored out Lynn Minmay in his eyes, but he and his predecessors whored out Rick Hunter instead, to old age.
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    Does he have an ego? I could see him or his fans say something like that if he was really self absorbed, or very insecure because he knows he's a hack but ran with the popularity anyway.
  8. Einherjar
    Oh gosh, so the rush to shamelessly stay relevant with the times has always been there. I thought of cannibals because I was thinking both Macross and Robotech as anime at the time, so Robotech was consuming its own kind in that way. Yes, very divisive thinking there, I know. But I agree, parasites is a better description these days. I've heard of that before. The LAMR could be the greatest test to see if it's true. Whoever works on it will have more resources at their control to make it whatever Robotech was truly supposed to be like. Unfortunately, Macek won't have as much input on it, but they won't be restricted by stuff that happened in Macross and the like because they're likely to be barred from using most of it anyway.
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    I'm guessing it was after 2001 that it became cool for fans to cannibalize Macross into Robotech as they were forced to wait for stuff repeatedly. I also guess the double standard where it was cool to put down "Macross purists" and some other stupid nonsense took off soon after. If I'm a purist what the hell are these people, cannibals?
  10. Einherjar
    Back then, were fans as desperate as they are now for new Robotech labeled anything? Maybe fans back then had higher standards inflated by the secondary material. I dare say the current fandom has been groomed for mediocrity.
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    Just like how Gundam was a trend setter for real robots, Macross was a trend setter for transforming real robots among other things. WB might be able to get away with it by saying the LAMR is continuing this trend with mainstream audiences having relatively little experience on. Or like other productions based on foreign franchises, like Godzilla, Speed Racer, Dragonball Evolution, etc., butchered to fit the American palate. I thought the Macross Sound Effects in Shadow Chronicles were actually just generic effects used by most series in the 80's. I've been getting the impression that fans will watch and like any Robotech production as well as corresponding products regardless of quality, like with Shadow Chronicles and the Shadow Fighter recall. In fact, I think they'll end up willing to spend too much money showing their love for it, since they've been deprived of material for a while now, potentially softening any blow the mainstream audience's influence could have if the LAMR is a total disaster.
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    Is Jack McKinney included in that? They were good writers, but I feel sorry for them having to translate Carl Macek's ideas into something that works on a tight schedule.
  13. Einherjar
    Unless a story takes place in an alternate universe, I think characters involved in the origin of a comic book character stay dead most of the time. The only ones I can think of are Bruce Wayne's parents and Spider-Man's Uncle Ben Parker. The many deaths in Prelude could count as comic book deaths if there wasn't a legal reason why they had to go. There's that little hope that the same rules apply since it's not over yet and because Robotech has been in comic book form for many years. But wouldn't that cheapen the experience since so many people throughout the series already died for no reason?
  14. Einherjar
    Basically Joe Quesada happened to the industry. But from your description of it these days, Robotech should fit right back into it reasonably well. EDIT - He ruined Spider-Man in recent times.
  15. Einherjar
    The crazy thing is none of these people are suffering from ending fatigue, or the lack of an ending. They expect this to keep on going without any kind of closure for the various loose ends they've neglected over the years, now even bigger with most of the material released out there glossed over. It's like the Lost effect years before Lost even came out; it's difficult for newcomers to understand what's going on if their first introduction is somewhere in the middle of it. They're forced rather than motivated to buy the rest of it to know what's going on. But that's a good strategy to make money off newcomers. Meanwhile, recent stuff is supposed to make perfect sense to older fans.
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    I bought this at a garage sale without prior knowledge of it for three bucks each (the cover with Geist's armor looked cool). I learned my lesson immediately after, do freaking research. And there was only one pair of boobs in this OVA, but the point of the show killed the mood. In fact, Geist metaphorically and literally killed it.
  17. Einherjar
    It's kind of the same way for me too, except this also scarred me for life.
  18. Einherjar
    He can type normally, he just doesn't want to for the likes of us. http://www.robotechx.com/forums/5-robotech...oobies.html#484
  19. Einherjar
    He's also an a-hole. His only redeeming quality is being strong enough to take on the world.
  20. Einherjar
    They'll probably have to do it anyway to keep interest in Robotech high. So they could lose money investing on comic books again, at least they're stalling while everything else they want is slowly progressing. They might even go back to novelizations again if it gets really bad. Half of McKinney is still alive after all.
  21. Einherjar
    I don't know, I'm just following the trail where Robotech comics ended abruptly.
  22. Einherjar
    They should have made a deal with DC while they were waiting for Shadow Rising, but before the LAM news came out. The franchise would have appeared more active than it really was. EDIT - Okay, maybe just the Wildstorm part of it. They still have the comic book license they haven't been using, right?
  23. Einherjar
    They always had Tommy Yune. He could have done something in a comic book after all these years. It's not like his career as an anime director/writer and creative director for a franchise is keeping him busy.
  24. Einherjar
    I'll stick to the VHS that's collecting dust in my room. Watching it once in English was enough for me.
  25. Einherjar
    I thought fans rewatch "teh original 85 episodes" enough times to memorize it these days. MEMO is into this a lot more than I, but even I know that crap. http://www.robotech.com/infopedia/characte...racter.php?id=9
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