Between you and me, I’ve a little over world-ending scenarios. Basically: I have to save the world but I have homework, too. And while we’ve seen it time and time again, Bendis does it so well, and frankly, it’s nice to read a superhero comic working on a smaller-scale. 1 is a callback to the archetypal high-school superhero story. There was real emotional when Miles’s father discovered his son was Spider-Man, and his anger and refusal to converse with his son was deeply affecting now that’s been wiped away. One of the most devastating moments Miles experienced was the death of his mother now that’s reversed. The only problem is, it cheapens the drama that’s come before, and brings into question the continuity of what we read in Miles’s adventures in the Ultimate universe. There is a real push to make this a fresh start and a true first chapter in Miles’s story. My biggest fear was that this opening volume would focus on Miles’s transition from one universe to another but that’s not the case at all. 1 opens, Miles is one of two “Spider-Men” operating in New York City and he’s a card-carrying member of the Avengers, too. Thus, when Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Vol. When the dust finally cleared and the crisis concluded, Earth-616 was restored - along with Miles and his family. Even when ‘ultimate’ Peter died, and was replaced by the Hispanic teenager Miles Morales died – by which time I was a full-fledged adult – I remained whole-heartedly invested in the world and its characters.ĭuring the 2015 mega-event “Secret Wars,” both the Ultimate Marvel universe and the mainstream Earth-616 universe were destroyed. As I got older, and my interest in the medium fluctuated, Ultimate Spider-Man remained an essential component of my reading life. When it launched in 2000 I was thirteen-years-old, and the perfect age to read about a teenage Peter Parker. Until the series ended, Brian Michael Bendis’s Ultimate Spider-Man was a staple of my comics reading.
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