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Saturday, February 5, 2011

Hour 7: Review Ultimate Comics

Ultimate Spiderman is my favorite comic book. Oh man oh man oh man is it my favorite comic. I started reading this comic around issue ten or issue eleven. Everyone who has ever heard me talk about comics have probably heard all about this. Towards the end of 2000, Brian Michael Bendis wrote Ultimate Spiderman issue one and it was supposed to be a big flop. The idea was that the The Amazing Spider-Man was almost five hundred issues worth of stories so they would retell the story of Spider-Man as if he was bitten by the spider today instead of 1963 in order to get more readers. If history repeated itself this would be a gigantic flop. History did not repeat itself. I read a review for this once that said “Marvel’s biggest mistake was making an alternative universe better than their main universe.

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The great thing about Ultimate Comics is that Brian Bendis is not working with the original recognizable versions of Marvel Comics. He can do things like make Mr. Fantastic snap and become the greatest villain these heroes have ever faced. He can make the Thing’s rocky exterior a cocoon preparing him for his real power so he can become a new hero simply called Purple Ben. Spider-Man is a high school student. He didn’t go to college in twenty-some issues. After 150 plus issues, Spider-Man has aged only a year and dated Kitty Pryde from the X-Men (who he broke up and then she got kicked out of Xavier’s school and transferred to his...awkward). The series took a new direction around issue 134 (which was renumbered as issue one) and focused even more on Peter’s relationships. Aunt May takes in the Human Torch and Iceman. Also Peter Parker has a female clone who made out with his best friend.

1 comment:

  1. Still have to read this. Man, do I have a lot of catching up to do.

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