ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #2: Peter Parker Struggles With Being A Superhero As [SPOILER] Learns His Secret Identity

ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #2: Peter Parker Struggles With Being A Superhero As [SPOILER] Learns His Secret Identity

In the second issue of Ultimate Spider-Man, Peter Parker struggles with his newfound superhero status, but the stage is set for him to don a familiar costume after one character learns his big secret...

By JoshWilding - Feb 22, 2024 05:02 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics

The new Ultimate Universe is a twisted reflection of Earth-616 where The Maker prevented the creation of many of the world's superheroes and formed a secret council to rule the world from the shadows.

Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Lad, has set out to make things right and sent Peter Parker - now a married father of two - a package containing the radioactive spider meant to bite him and a mysterious "picotech" suit which seems to have a lot in common with a symbiote. 

At the end of Ultimate Spider-Man #1, Peter let the spider bite him and we learn in issue #2 that, well, he's not very good at this superhero stuff. 

The wall-crawler is struggling to get to grips with his newfound abilities after spending so much time as a regular guy and a clash with Shocker shows just how naive the hero is. After being caught attempting to rob a bank, the villain claims to have learnt the error of his ways...only to then blash Spidey into a dumpster below. 

Returning home, May, Peter's daughter, catches him in costume and learns her father is secretly the mysterious hero who has made the front page of The Daily Bugle (and yes, Pete took the photo). He's not told MJ yet so, for the time being, it's their secret. 

Later, Spidey clashes with Shocker for a second time and actually manages to overpower him; however, he tells the hero a sob story about his wife having cancer, only to reveal he's lying before blasting the web-slinger off the roof all over again. 

We see the Green Goblin - who has been targeting Kingpin - watching from afar and when Peter returns home, his daughter has drawn a red and blue spider for him, seemingly inspiring what will become his new look after she previously described his all-black suit as scary. 

Jonathan Hickman is definitely taking an unconventional approach to Spider-Man's new origin story and it feels like the series will be something of a slow burn with Peter's journey to becoming an "amazing" and "spectacular" superhero.

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THE MOST SURPRISING SPIDER-MAN STORY OF THE 21ST CENTURY CONTINUES! Spider-Man faces his first super villain! J. Jonah Jameson's quest to uncover who is really pulling the strings of this new Ultimate Universe leads to a shocking revelation! And New York City welcomes its newest hero…the Green Goblin!

ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #2
Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN
Art & Cover by MARCO CHECCHETTO

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CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 2/22/2024, 6:17 AM
I haven't read issue 2 yet, but issue 1 was fantastic. If they can keep this kind if quality up for the entire Ultimate line then it will be a massive success. And considering the 616 has become so abysmal that I haven't even read any of it in years, I'm really pulling for this to be something I can sink my teeth into and enjoy.
OptimusCrime
OptimusCrime - 2/22/2024, 6:24 AM
Can anyone help me find that image in the thumbnail?
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/22/2024, 6:56 AM
@OptimusCrime - It's the Dike Ruan variant cover to Ultimate Spider-Man #2.
dragon316
dragon316 - 2/22/2024, 8:16 AM
@ObserverIO - webbing is werid straight line looks good for cover
OptimusCrime
OptimusCrime - 2/22/2024, 11:24 AM
@ObserverIO - thanks man!
Twenty23Three
Twenty23Three - 2/22/2024, 6:40 AM
I’m still wondering if, other than the Maker, this will actually end up having any connections or tie back into the original ultimate universe. If they just used the Ultimate name to sell some new elseworld books it would be kinda disappointing
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/22/2024, 6:50 AM
"One more day" ahhhhhhhh that's sweet.
Origame
Origame - 2/22/2024, 8:31 AM
@ObserverIO - actually it's kinda dark since it's referencing the time his 616 daughter was prevented from being born.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/22/2024, 8:45 AM
@Origame - And when the marriage was sacrificed to Mephisto. But now it's a timeline in which they are both back with him. The One More Day in the titles was talking about one more day with MJ, so to hear him say it here, it's sweet, imo.
Origame
Origame - 2/22/2024, 8:47 AM
@ObserverIO - idk, maybe if he was talking about something related to his wife. But since he's looking at a picture made by the daughter that wasn't born because of that story, it's pretty f@#$ed up to me. But to each his own.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 2/22/2024, 8:55 AM
@Origame - I think it's just the idea of the family he lost. Because he didn't just lose MJ, he lost his future daughter too. In fact, they might've retconned this but in the original One More Day story the whole reason Mephisto made the deal was to make sure May never happened.

So I see it as a package deal, y'know, he's back with MJ and May exists. He gets one more day with his MJ family, every single day.


Until Harry Osborn kills them all.

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