It has been a week now since the image you see to the right occurred. We've been getting a lot of build up to this story, there's been a lot of Prelude issues but now the final bang has happened. I still won't go into the specifics of why or how Punisher (yes, that's him with the star on his forehead) shot Spider-Man but now that it's happened, we need to figure out what this means and if it really will bring the death of Spider-Man.
What we all want to know is, will Peter Parker actually die or is this just another comic book death? == TEASER ==
Spider-Man can't die...or can he? If we've learned anything from the Ultimate Universe, it's that characters do actually die. Often, they have pretty grisly deaths (remember what happened to Wasp when she ran into Blob?). Characters often take different directions or turn out to be completely different characters (who knew that Ultimate Cable would turn out to be a future Ultimate Wolverine?).
Let's look at what we know so far. First of all, the incident that could be leading to his death was brilliant. With the return of Norman Osborn and the Sinister Six, it looked obvious how things were going to end. Then we had the inclusion of the battle between the Ultimate Avengers and New Ultimates. Spider-Man's involvement with that really threw me off guard.
Remember when Mattie Franklin made her debut in Amazing Spider-Man volume 2 #1 (otherwise known as issue #442 ). Mattie wore a padded suit that made her look like a guy. When Ultimatum was coming to a close and we saw the teaser of Spider-Man being dead and were told the series would relaunch, I figured it would be one of Spider-Man's clones. Specifically, I was hoping it would be his female clone doing something similar to appear to be a Spider- Man . Another likely candidate is Kitty Pryde. In her recent guise as Shroud, you couldn't tell it was a dude under the costume. Why wouldn't she step in for someone she cares about?
The arc isn't over and there may be more to his injury than just a gunshot, even if it's a gunshot from whatever crazy gun Punisher chose to use. He has a pretty good healing factor so you would think a single gunshot wouldn't be that deadly. Yeah, there'd be internal injury but looking at where he was shot...I would think he'd be okay with some medical treatment. Could there be some other affect of the shot that prevents Peter from being a hero? Will he become disabled in some way and have this lead his retirement as a Spider-Person? Norman is still out there pissed beyond reason (ask Doc Ock and he'll tell you...actually, now he can't tell you anything after his last encounter with Norman).
The Death of Spider-Man isn't over yet but I'm digging the story so far. I will be reading and watching to see if there will be major consequences that will stick once it's all over. It's not often that a story centered around a character's death could be so interesting.
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