{"id":16963,"date":"2017-06-22T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=16963"},"modified":"2017-06-21T11:21:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T11:21:19","slug":"ultimate-spider-man-by-brian-michael-bendis-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2017\/06\/22\/ultimate-spider-man-by-brian-michael-bendis-volume-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Comics Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis: volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Brian Michael Bendis<\/strong> & Sara Pichelli <\/strong>(Marvel)
\nISBN: 978-0-7851-5712-0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 978-0-7851-5713-7(TPB)<\/p>\n

When the Ultimate Comics Spider-Man<\/strong> died, writer Brian Michael Bendis and Marvel promised that a new hero would arise from the ashes\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Marvel’s Ultimates imprint began in 2000 with a new post-modern take on major characters and concepts to bring them into line with the tastes of 21st<\/sup> century readers – apparently a wholly different market from those baby-boomers and their descendants content to stick with the precepts sprung from founding talents Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and Stan Lee\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 or simply those unable or unwilling to deal with decades of continuity baggage (seven if you include the Golden Age\/Timely Comics tales retroactively co-opted into the mix which saturated the originals).<\/p>\n

Eventually even this darkly nihilistic new universe became as continuity-constricted as its ancestor and in 2008 the cleansing event \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ultimatum\u00e2\u20ac\u009d culminated in a reign of terror which excised dozens of super-humans and millions of lesser mortals in a devastating tsunami which inundated Manhattan courtesy of mutant menace Magneto.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath Peter Parker<\/em> and his fellow meta-human survivors struggled to restore order to a dangerous new world. Spider-Man finally gained a measure of acceptance and was hailed a hero when he valiantly and very publicly met his end during a catastrophic super-villain confrontation\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

This collection – published before the mega-crossover events Time Runs Out<\/strong> and Secret Wars <\/strong>which resulted in the merger of the Ultimate and mainstream Marvel Universe – re-presents the introductory teaser from Ultimate Comics Fallout<\/strong> #4 (August 2011) and follow-up Ultimate Comics Spider-Man: Who is Miles Morales?<\/strong> #1-5) with a new and even younger Arachnid Avenger and describes how, just like his predecessor, a troubled boy learned the painful price of misusing the unique gifts fate had bestowed\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

The epic opens with a skinny kid having the poor taste to parade around town in a cheap imitation costume of fallen hero Spider-Man encountering and somehow defeating vicious super-villain The Kangaroo<\/em>. Then the revelations begin by spinning back to the relatively recent past where manic industrialist Norman Osborn<\/em> repeats the genetic experiment which first gave Peter Parker <\/em>his powers (see Ultimate Spider-Man<\/strong> volume 1: Power and Responsibility<\/strong><\/a>) via the bite of an artificially-mutated spider.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the deranged mastermind didn’t expect a burglar to waltz in and accidentally carry off the latest test animal as part of his haul\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

When grade-schooler Miles Morales<\/em> gets into prestigious and life-changing Brooklyn Visions Academy Boarding School<\/em> by the most callous of chances, the brilliant African American\/Latino lad quickly and cynically realises life is pretty much a crap-shoot\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and unfair to boot. Feeling guilty about his unjust success and sorry for the 697 other poor kids who don’t get his chance, he sneaks off to visit his uncle Aaron<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The visit has to be secret since his uncle is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bad influence\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: a career criminal dubbed The Prowler<\/em>. Whilst there, a great big spider with a number on its back bites Miles and he begins to feel very odd\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

For starters he starts fading from sight\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Suddenly super-fast and strong, able to leap huge distances and fade from view, Miles rushes over to see geeky pal Ganke<\/em>, a brilliant nerd already attending Brooklyn Visions. Applying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153scientific\u00e2\u20ac\u009d testing, the boy also discovers Miles can deliver shocking, destructive charges through his hands. When Miles goes home Ganke continues online research and deduces a connection to Spider-Man; strenuously pushing his friend towards becoming a costumed crusader.<\/p>\n

However, after Miles assists during a tenement fire, saving a mother and baby, shock sets in and he resolves never to use his powers again\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Time passes: Miles and Ganke are roommates at the Academy for almost a year when news of a major metahuman clash rocks the city. Troubled Miles heads out and is an accidental bystander at the scene of Spider-Man’s death.<\/p>\n

Seeing a brave man perish so valiantly, Miles is again consumed by guilt: if he had used his own powers when they first manifested he might have been able to help; to save a true hero\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

As part of the crowd attending Parker’s memorial Miles and Ganke talk to another mourner, a girl who actually knew Parker. Gwen Stacy<\/em> offers quiet insights to the grieving child and a phrase which alters the course of his life forever: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153with great power comes great responsibility\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Clad in a Halloween Spidey costume borrowed from Ganke, Miles takes to the night streets for the first time and stops Kangaroo from committing murder\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

His third night out the exhilarated 13-year old encounters the terrifying and furiously indignant Spider-Woman<\/em> who thrashes and arrests him, before dragging him to Government agency S.H.I.E.L.D, where Hawkeye<\/em>, Iron Man<\/em> and master manipulator Nick Fury<\/em> coldly assess him.<\/p>\n

However, before they can reach a decision on Miles’ fate, murderous malcontent Electro<\/em> breaks free of the Triskelion’s medical custody ward and goes on a rampage.<\/p>\n

Despite easily defeating the seasoned heroes the voltage villain is completely unprepared for a new Spider-Man: especially as the boy has a range of extra powers including camouflage capabilities and an irresistible \u00e2\u20ac\u0153venom-strike\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sting\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

As Miles considers the full implications of his victory, Fury imparts a staggeringly simple homily: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153With great power\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli crafted a stirring new chapter both engaging and intriguing and this stirring debut volume (available in Hardcover, Trade Paperback and digital editions) also contains a gallery of alternate covers by Marko Djurdjevic and Pichelli.<\/p>\n

Tense, breathtaking, action-packed, evocative and full of the light-hearted, self-aware humour which blessed the original Lee\/Ditko tales, this is a controversial but worthy way to continue and advance the legend Fights ‘n’ Tights addicts will admire and adore\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nA British Edition \u00e2\u201e\u00a2 & \u00c2\u00a9 2012, 2016 Marvel Characters Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Brian Michael Bendis & Sara Pichelli (Marvel) ISBN: 978-0-7851-5712-0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 978-0-7851-5713-7(TPB) When the Ultimate Comics Spider-Man died, writer Brian Michael Bendis and Marvel promised that a new hero would arise from the ashes\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Marvel’s Ultimates imprint began in 2000 with a new post-modern take on major characters and concepts to bring them into line with … <\/p>\n

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