Comic Of The Moment: Ultimate Spider-Man (Volume 2)Posted on Tue, Feb 16, 2010
WRITER: Brian Michael Bendis
PENCILS: Takeshi Miyazawa
COLORED BY: Justin Ponsor
I’ve never been a big fan of the Ultimate Universe. They’ve always been ‘imposters’ to me.. except Ultimate Hawkeye. I’ve always like his outfit. But the rest of the Ultimate Universe? Imposters. I tried reading Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Daredevil and The Ultimates. But they never really grabbed me. That’s why a lot of people were puzzled when I told them I was the worlds biggest Brian Michael Bendis fan. The face that i drool on any and everything he writes, yet I never ONCE picked up a copy of the 130+ issues of his legendary run on Ultimate Spider-Man.
True, I’ve felt a little stupid not reading it. How can you call a person your favorite write and not pick up his best works? Well, I remedied that. Over the past couple months, I’ve been on an archeological “Bendis” dig. I’ve scoured countless comic book shops and online retailers to piece together my “Bendis Back Issue” longboxes. Within 3 months time, I’ve been able to aquire Bendis back series “Alias”, “The Pulse” and (YES) the entire first run of Ultimate Spider-Man! Now that they are sitting in my digital longbox (scanned and stored on my hardrive), all i need to do is find the time to read them. And with work being pretty time-consuming these days, it’s been pretty hard trying to sit down and start something as epic as 130+ issues of a back comic.. especially when i’m using that time to consume about 10-15 new comics each week.
Luckly, one of those ‘new’ comics is the second volume / rebook of Ultimate Spider-Man. After the horrible, horrible (HORRIBLE) events of “Ultimatum”, whih more or less destroyed the Ultimate Universe and allowed for Ultimate comic books to reboot their product lines.. none of them have been able to maintain the status quo like Ultimate Spidey.
The Brian Michael Bendis still at the helm, this comic picked up 6 months after Magneto’s giant tidal wave destroys New York City and life is getting back to normal. Peter Parker seems to be back to doing his normal routine. Saving the world and trying to main a personal life at the same time. It may not sound like much, but when i tell you that Bendis writes THE Spider-Man you know and love, i really mean it. One of the reasons The New Avengers worked so well is the classic Bendis interactions between Spidey, Wolverine and Luke Cage.
Another cool thing that Bendis is doing is pillaging the character scraps that have been left over from Ultimatum. Now that the X-Men are dead and the Fantastic Four are no more, Bendis as introduced Kitty Pride, Ice Man, and Johnny “The Human Torch” Storm as part of Peter’s supporting cast. And since most of them are staying at Peter’s house, the teenage wackiness has been great. I’ve never been a fan of these types of things, but I’m enjoying this series more and more.
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