Mig, someone made an Alan Davis / Bryan Hitch comment earlier in the thread.  I was just commenting that I might be wiiling to pick the book up on a regular basis if Alan Davis were handling the art chores.  I was not implying that Davis was going to pencil the series.

I forgot, Bugfuck and Jerkoff are tasked with making each character as unlikable as possible (cannibal Hulk, "This A doesn't stand for France" Captain America...).

Mig, your dial goes up to 11. :p

I don't think that Captain America was unlikeable.  He seems very much like a man from that time-in both good and bad ways. Yet he is also a leader, tough, brave, etc.  Considering the veterans I know who have not liked France or said something similar, I think it is in keeping with that.  I thought it was a powerful moment in the book, even if not PC or even something that is really fair. But it is a prevalent attitude, and that phrase does not undo the other qualities he has demonstrated.

Really, the Ultimates is the only Ultimate book I get (or will when i start buying again).  It is different then the main books, enough so that it is worth getting. The storylines are different.

Much of Ultimate Spider-man, though well-written, is very dragged out and more of "What kind of twist can I put on this character."  Well, except Geldorf

<<And the Ultimates aren't even the worst culprit, Ultimate Spider-Man is. The whole series is literally the reprinting of already written stories only Peter Parker is a teen, there's a generic cover, and one issue is sold for the price of 5 as a TPB.>>

Hee hee

<<Was either series ever completed?>>

J. Scott Campbell and Andy Hartnell(?) finished their Danger Girl story arc in a double-sized issue 7.  Their have been a few other DG one-shots and mini and there will be, apparently, more.

Battlechasers or Battle Chasers is (was) in the midst of a second arc.  The last issue (#9?) was published in 2001.  I've read on the Internet that the following issues exists is part, don't know for sure.