Today is my wife’s birthday, so happy birthday Kristie!
Her request to either not do a post at all or at least a simple sentence of ‘out with wife’ but I couldn’t find a graphic like those ‘gone fishing’ signs.
Another request was to write an article about how alternate universes are dumb. Which she doesn’t like on principle. She thinks comics should just have their own universe and not have splintered ones as those just exist to grab more money. I haven’t told her about how DC’s whole deal is alternate Earths but I’m not a DC guy so there is no reason to really bring it up.
My Kitty Pryde, Lockheed and Magik collection has just recently broke the 1900 mark.
My collection would be shorter if it wasn’t for these alternate universes by :
Age of Apocalypse 3 issues
Age of Apocalypse The Chosen 1 issue
Age of Ultron 1 issue
All New Ultimates 1 issue
Amazing X-Men 1 issue
Askani’son 1 issue
Astonishing X-Men Ghost Boxes 1 issue
Blink 2 issues
Cataclysm Ultimates Last Stand 4 issues
Cataclysm Ultimate X-Men 1 issue
Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe 1 issue
Earth X 1 issue
Exiles Volume One 36 issues
Exiles Volume Two 1 issue
Exiles Volume Three 1 issue
Galactic Guardians 1 issue
Generation Next 4 issues
GeNext 2 issues
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man 1 issue
Marvel Age Spider-Man Team-Up 1 issue
Marvel Apes 2 issues
Marvel Riot 1 issue
Marvel Super Hero Squad 1 issue
Marvel Zombies 5 1 issue
Marvel Zombies Return 1 issue
Marvel Zombies Dead Days 1 issue
Marvel Zombies : Book of Angels, Demons and Various Monstrosities 1 issue
Marvel Zombies / Army of Darkness 1 issue
Mutant X 10 issues
New Exiles 21 issues
New Mutants Forever 6 issues
Paradise X 1 issue
Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham 2 issues
Ruins 3 issues
Survive! 1 issue
Thor and the Warriors Four 2 issues
Ultimate Comics Wolverine 1 issue
Ultimate Comics X-Men 31 issues
Ultimate Enemy 1 issue
Ultimate Fallout 3 issues
Ultimate Fantastic Four 2 issues
Ultimate Fantastic Four / Ultimate X-Men Annual 1 issue
Ultimate Fantastic Four / X-Men 1 issue
Ultimate Hawkeye 1 issue
Ultimate Marvel Sampler 1 issue
Ultimate Origins 1 issue
Ultimate Power 6 issues
Ultimate Secrets 1 issue
Ultimate Spider-Man Volume One 43 issues
Ultimate Spider-Man Volume Two 9 issues
Ultimate War 3 issues
Ultimate X 1 issue
Ultimate X-Men 33 issues
Ultimate X-Men / Fantastic Four 1 issue
Ultimate X-Men / Ultimate Fantastic Four Annual 1 issue
Ultimates 2 2 issues
Ultimatum 3 issues
Ultimatum X-Men Requiem 1 issue
Universe X 2 issues
Universe X Beasts 1 issue
Weapon X Days of Future Past 3 issues
What if Magneto Had Formed the X-Men with Professor X 1 issue
What If Fantastic Four 1 issue
What if Volume One 1 issue
What If Volume Two 15 issues
What If Astonishing X-Men 1 issue
What If House of M 1 issue
What If Wolverine Enemy of the State 1 issue
What If X-Men Deadly Genesis 1 issue
What The 2 issues
Wolverine Days of Future Past 1 issue
X-Babies 4 issues
X-Babies Reborn 1 issue
X-Babies Murderama 1 issue
X-Factor Forever 1 issue
X-Man 5 issues
X-Men Chronicles 2 issues
X-Men Forever (mini) 2 issues
X-Men Forever 24 issues
X-Men Forever 2 15 issues
X-Men Forever Giant Size 1 issue
X-Men Noir : Mark of Cain 1 issue
X-Men Omega 1 issue
X-Men Age of Apocalypse 2 issues
X-Men Age of Apocalypse One Shot 1 issue
X-Men Millennial Visions 2 issues
X-Men Misfits 1 issue
X-Men Ronin 3 issues
X-Men The End 16 issues (4 / 6 / 6)
Which is a total of 381 comics which at 3 dollars a piece is $1,143 which is a very rough estimate of how much all of those comics cost to a varyingly difference.
381 comics are also two and a half short comic book boxes so there is that too.
Grant it, the Age of Apocalypse version of Kitty is worthy of following and I would say the same of Ultimate Kitty as well as the X-Men Forever version. The Magik that was in Exiles was fun to follow while she was alive. I simply adore Mutant X, the only time I’ve ever really followed Havok.
It is hard to narrow down what is a imaginary story and what is an alternate universe or alternate timeline story. Plus I like the idea of seeing the base personality of Kitty’s and how that corresponds with the world she happens to be in.
Also, at this point, I’m a little pot committed. Would it have just been easier to be a fan of Uncanny X-Men and only buying that one title, maybe it would be. That would make crossovers difficult or super fun of an experience – pending on how it was structured.
But whenever I’m at home, I have to make sure that I never talk about the Ultimate universe as she knows for sure that is an alternate universe.
Now, should Marvel just be only creating comics within their proper universe, that could be an argument worthy of being made. A little late now for that though but even the Ultimate Universe has created alternate timelines like the Marvel Zombie timeline and the Supreme Power timeline.
The list above also just represents the titles and not individual comics that take place in the proper timeline that also cross overed to other titles. I’m thinking mostly of titles like X-Men Die by the Sword which was a crossover between New Excalibur and New Exiles.
Also, not included is my Wishlist – which would also be decreased without the alternate timelines or futures
311 total on my Wishlist (counting variants)
All New Ultimates 1 issue
Bullet Points 1 issue
Cataclysm Ultimates Last Stand 1 issue
Daredevil End of Days 1 issue
Deadpool Kills Deadpool 1 issue
Marvel Universe vs the Avengers 1 issue
Marvel Universe vs Wolverine 1 issue
Marvel Zombies Halloween 1 issue
Marvel Zombies Return 1 issue
Marvel Now What 1 issue
Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe 1 issue
Shame Itself 1 issue
Spider-Men 1 issue
Survive! 1 issue
Ultimate Comics X-Men 5 issues
Ultimate Fallout 1 issue
Ultimate Mystery 1 issue
Ultimate Spider-Man Volume One 2 issues
Ultimate X-Men 17 issues
Universe X 1 issue
What If Volume One 1 issue
What If Age of Ultron 1 issue
What If AvX 2 issues
Wolverine and Power Pack 1 issue
X-Babies 1 issue
X-Factor Forever 1 issue
X-Men Forever 2 issues
X-Men Forever 2 1 issue
X-Men Alpha 1 issue
X-Men Phoenix Legacy of Fire 1 issue
X-Treme X-Men Volume Two 1 issue
That’s 54 issues right there! Some of those are variants as well but still.
Life would be easier but not as much fun without alternate universes. Luckily, they don’t invade us nearly as much as we invade them.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 