I can see how that would be good experience to fall back on when you've got tie-ins spinning off into many directions. In hindsight, I'm just surprised that Vizh hasn't had to make more saving throws vs. poison.





I enjoy piggy-backing onto the larger plots, because I'm more interested in detailing the smaller picture than doing the heavy lifting on the major plot points... so it's worked out well on this end also. Most of my stories are bizarre little tangents off of things that happened in Untold Tales.





I'm more or less happy with where he is, and I've enjoyed his adventures... there are just odd bits here and there that make him especially messy to sum up. Some of that convoluted history makes for good joke fodder now though, so I shouldn't really complain. (Sarah and I probably wouldn't have gone with the 16-year-old fling idea had we thought they'd later be (adoptive) brother and sister, for instance.) The kids have an even twistier origin.

On a tangent, I notice that the Ultimate Universe didn't really stick with the idea of simplifying their character's past continuity. I could actually get behind the idea of simplifying the Vision (as Geoff Johns did in one of his miniseries, essentially dropping the detail that Vizh used to be the Human Torch when talking about Horton creating him), but when they made the Ultimate version of the Vision they somehow made him/her even more confusing than the regular continuity.

Trying to follow the twists and turns of the Ultimate Universe in the wiki write up makes me question what the point of it all was again.





I actually already proceeded... I think you started this reply before my edited version of the original post was uploaded to the board. In any event, there's more in my previous response now.