Disney XD to have Marvel block
 

http://www.toonzone.net/forums/showthread.php?290904

Aww that's nice....Cartoon Network's DC Nation is gonna have competition.... :P But man... we gotta wait till April for season 2 of Earth's Mightiest? Hrm... :ohwell:

So by that plot synopsis I can already see Ultimate Spider-man has nothing to do with Ultimate Spider-man. Eh as long as it's good. I guess a straight adaptation was too much to ask. I also find it weird they have the guy who voiced Ironman in the horrid Marvel anime reprising his role instead of the VA from Avengers, who they mention he will be crossing over with. Pretty amped for the next season of Avengers. I really liked the first one.

Ultimate Spider-Man was shown as more of an adaptation of Ultimate Marvel Team Up with Spidey teaming up with a different hero every issue/episode.

Now it looks like its about him and the other members of his team (probably Kitty Pride, Iceman, Human Torch, and another)

I hope it's not like Ultimate Marvel Team-up. That book wasn't very good and a fair bit of it wasn't even canon. I could see the team you mentioned making sense but I would hope they'd do something different. That group really didn't happen in the comics still the end and Ultimate Fury never got along with the X-men.

A straight adaptation would be boring as all hell...you do know those stories take AGES to really kick into high gear due to Bendis' decompressed storytelling right? Besides, why enlist talent like Paul Dini if all you're going to do is lift stuff from the comics? Anybody can do that, their talents should be best ultiized creating original stories.

Sounds like the animated USM is set in a universe where Peter didnt die and subsequentially went on to join SHIELD as Fury had intended for him.

Agreed. Where's the fun when you know exactly where the story is going to go?

And I can't wait for season 2 of Avengers EMH. Season 1 was awesome!

I ain't mad that it seems like Ultimate Spider-Man is not a straight up adaptation of the comics, if they wanted to so that they could make animated films instead similar of the Ultimates film.

Oh my gods.... WTH Marvel?! The list of TEEN heroes that Spidey will be teaming up with in the upcoming Ultimate Spidey toon have been revealed.... Teen Luke Cage?! Seriously Marvel?! WTH?! Also Teen Iron Fist, Nova and White Tiger. :ohwell:

http://blastr.com/2012/01/luke-cage-is-finally-gett.php

well it is a Ultimate title, what is a U title without making the heroes younger? :P

What's the problem exactly?

Luke Cage got his powers from being experimented on in prison. He was an ADULT when he got his powers....and now we're gonna have a teen version?? Did he get experimented on in Juvie? :ohwell:

I don't think there is an official Luke Cage in Ultimate, there's a Power Man, but. As far I know he's not mentioned by any real name. So the USM can go all out on a new take on Cage I guess.

But I ain't no fan of making certain Heroes younger, Fantastic Four comes to mind...

You're thinking too much like a 616 purist, why should the origin stay the same? This is a different continuity

Well Bendis is one of the series writers and a lot of Paul Dini's work has been adapting comics into 20 minute episodes. I'm more concerned as to the format of the series. Right now it seems like they're going for the 5th season of The Batman or Brave and the Bold. Super hero team up of the week. Which seems dumb to me when Avengers already has that going and it'll be in the same block. A show more focused on Spider-man wouldn't have been horrible. Besides it sounds like the heroes are random characters most non-readers will have never heard of.

If he was 18 in this series I could see that. I know he was forcing Peter to get training but only because he knew he wasn't going to stop. On several occasions Fury said "You better rest now because once you turn 18 you're mine."

In Ultimate that's pretty much what happens to Fury. Happens in Ultimate Origins.