COMICS: ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN Ending Next Month; Relaunch On The Way

Glad to see they're still honoring Peter after all this time. Miss him, but I love Miles. Best Spider Man to me right now, and only Ultimate title worth it at the time.

actually LOLed at that one
"did peter die?"

ya like 3 years ago

I stop reading this book when peter died still don't care unless they bring him back.

Take two:

Another relaunch? How shocking.
Someone better warn Marvel – Superior Spider-Man is about to hit it's 30th issue. Sales are SURE to plummet as reader complaints about overly complicated continuity are sure to rise!

Bunch of doo doo. Quit calling him Spider-Man and give him his own superhero name. Time to stop riding the coattails.

@1984 just go to youtube and type death of spiderman motion comic. hope that helps

@ dethpillow
Your points (made in the Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel article) were brilliant.


". . . and also it kinda takes the idea of certain truly long running arcs out of play. like the kind of stuff that ends up happening sort of by accident, over time, and the result of team changes that pick up where someone else left but then find old stuff to make relevant again."

I've been dancing around THAT exact point for a couple of weeks now. But it wasn't until you articulated it that I realized that THAT is, and has been, my number one complaint with the marketing that's taken the place story telling. Sure there have been some great arcs. But the random collision of writers riffing off of other's storyline threads, has been obliterated.
John Byrne was a fantastic plotter. His overly verbose dialog could have used some tweaking, but the point is that his story telling was a perfect mix between mining nuggets from the past and moving the Marvel 616 universe forward. Mind you, I'm NOT saying that Byrne was Marvel's finest writer, or that this particular writer or that one sucks. I AM saying that isolating story arcs like they've been doing is bad for comics.
The main result is that it disenfranchises longtime readers. There are those that would say that's just to bad - roll with the times Grandpa. Fair enough. But I suspect that the industry can't survive selling $3, $4, soon to be $5 comics to pre-high school age kids who don't have the disposable cash to support the habit.
As for my part, the Marvel Masterworks are FINALLY starting to reprint the bronze age comics. As I started reading/collecting during the back half of the '70s, there's a boatload of stories I never read. That's where my money's going.

thank you Wetboy40. I was just about to ask if anyone noticed that. I also want to know who that spider-man is in front. miles is to the right and Jessica is to the left.

Too bad. USM must be about the only good title left in the Ultimate universe

This is the 4th relaunch of Ultimate Spider-Man. Bendis has been with the series the entire time though. They just keep doing events like Ultimatum, Death of Spider-Man and now Cataclysm to force a renumbering on the series. It'd actually be great if this were the only Ultimate title so that Bendis would be free to write without constant interruptions from events (like United/Divided).

So if the Ultimate universe is where heroes and villains can actually die and stay dead, then are they introducing new heroes? Like, not just new people in Spider-Man's suit?

I think this is what is causing all the uproar over there never being super heroes of color. We still have all the same white super heroes from 50 years ago and somehow they have barely aged. If we accepted that death was a permanent part of the real Marvel universe then we would probably have tons of diversity all throughout the Marvel universe.

Holy shit is that Peter!?! Is that Ben Reilly (what the hell happened to him)? Is that Ultimate Scarlet Spider!?!?! WHAT IS GOING ON!?!?!

Also: Just cause

Thanks PeterDarker..!!

Ultimate Booty

I'd read that.