I didn't say they were in a totally traditional eastern style.
Honestly, you are terrible with this stuff. You over-step into other people's thoughts. This is how BLO'M must feel. Dayum.
It's Eastern inspired, with the look of Ultimate Spider-ma...
Your quote "...he even has the t-shirt tag that sticks up like in the books!..." makes me smile, because its such a subtle design of Scott but you saw it just like i did.
the character designs aren't drawn in a traditional eastern style at all...
it's a style closer to my avatar, which is more of a pilgrim-esque manga+cartoon thing.
the stories seem to be a blending of ultimate spider-man and the original stories ...
No, not the story. The character designs. Albeit in a more Eastern style.
The stories are more or less pulled straight from the original mythos.
I'm merely talking about Peter's design.
I dunno man, I wouldn't say based complelty of ult SM.
I think they just took their favourite things from each series of stories and ran with it. A few things that back this up would be stuff like...
Gwen isn't a "bad girl" at all, she's a geek li...
A good portion of the issues, he wears a white long sleeve shirt, and some sort of tshirt on top of it.
Hell, Bendis is a producer and wrote several issues of the show.
It's based off of Ultimate Spider-man.