Ultimately Doomed?

IGN has an interesting article discussing whether or not the Marvel Ultimate line has outlived its purposes. Some of the article’s contributors call for the end of all things Ultimate, while others still see the need for these cooler, hipper versions of classic Marvel characters.

As for me, the Ultimate line still works for the most part. I’ll admit that I don’t read all of the books – I gave up on Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate X-Men after about the first year or so of each – but Ultimate Spider-Man and The Ultimates are still the best takes on Spidey and the Avengers around. As for the various Ultimate mini-series, I just say “meh”. So, it’s been a mixed bag, but on a whole the Ultimate Marvel line been one of the better comics experiments around – certainly superior to the M2 line launched (and still around, amazingly) several years before the Ultimates came about.

So what do you think? Trash ‘em or keep ‘em?