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But the nice treat here is Spidey meets Black Cat and the super tough villain, Elektra. Black Cat is really playful and is a great character to keep Spidey occupied since he broke up with MJ.
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Yes, that title either raises your expectations for the book, or it announces the writer of the review is a teen-aged fanboy.
I'm not a teen-aged fanboy.
The SINISTER six has long been a staple of the Spiderman comic books; I think that as soon as Stan Lee had Peter Parker fight six foes, he decided to put the all the BAD guys together in a team against poor old Spidey.
Spidey, of course, always won the day, time after time. Against six bad guys.
Another century, another comic book. Marvel created the "Ultimate" line relaunching its flagship heroes for the twenty-first century, with a greater emphasis on what we consider "realism" today.
In this case, Brian Bendis, who wrote the first hundred issues or so of Ultimate Spiderman, hits a clear home run into the upper decks.
How would a half-dozen of Peter Parker's nastiest foes act when they got together? What would the vengeful Green Goblin (who knows Peter Parker is Spidey) want of Spiderman?
How would teen-aged Spiderman react?
What would the authorities (Nick Fury, Shield, and the Ultimates) be doing about all this?
There are other Ultimate Spiderman tales that pull at the heartstrings more, beloved characters meeting bitter ends, more-cleverly-plotted tales in Bendis's run, but this one really seems logical and plausible: given A, then B, then C must follow.
Who is the sixth member of the Ultimate "Sinister Six"? Brilliant.
Rating:  -
Nick Fury has the Green Goblin, Kraven the Hunter, Electron, the Sandman, and Doctor Octopus locked up so he can study them, and have Henry Pym try and work out how they can do something useful with them.
Very bad idea.
This is really an Ultimates book, with Spider-Man guest starring.
Neither the President or Captain America is very happy with what is going on after much destruction and death.
Rating:  -
I am a huge fan of Spider-Man of all the series. I wanted to read this book 'cause it looked cool. I was very disapointed. The drawings were horrible. They all looked like a 14 drew them. Second all there basically was, was talk. No action except at the very beginning and end. If you don't read this book you are not missing much.
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ultimate spider-man by bendis and bagley is one of the best series out there. not as much action and non-stop bad guy fighting, but a good mix of that and a lot of peter parker being a teenager with problems (girls, bullies, being grounded, etc.) along with his spidey life.
the series is great great great. only a few minor things that could be better:
1. i don't like how nick fury comes in and tells spider-man he's going to work his whole life for him and shield. the idea of peter being...trapped in a web? haha...well it isn't too cool. superheroes need to fight the good fight because they want to, not because shield will go and take away their superpowers (as fury has threatened) if they don't comply. plus the issues where the ultimates come in aren't that great, the whole series gets hijacked by them and not a lot of spidey. imo, the ultimates are easily the worst part of the ultimate universe. beyond ultimate spider-man and the ultimate fantastic four the ultimate universe isn't too great.
2. bendis needs to cut down on the tuchas talk. seriously if parker grew up in nyc today he'd more likely speak spanglish than yanglish.
3. geldoff.
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