Shock, Awe and One More Death
I'll be honest, I really wasn't sure if the next chapter in life of Ultimate Peter Parker was going to be on my reading list.
I was wrong. Dead wrong.
This issue is exactly what I, as an Ultimate Spider-Man fan, have been waiting for. I really don't want to give away the two big reveals, happening at the 3/4 mark and the last two pages, but it's setting this series to live up to it's quota, bring us Spider-Man stories we'd get no where else.
Without hitting anything important I'll try to glaze over the issue real quick. Peter, now without the Bugle to employ him, is working at a McParody called Burger Frog and the job is, as anything in customer service would be, very very annoy and rough. But I loved it, the scene rings true to anyone who has even had an annoying customer would has no idea what the heck they're doing and a boss who could care less about their side of the story.
We go onto a two-page spread of New York six months later and finally "open for business" again, echoing the world after 9/11 in many ways. All from the prospective of Mary Jane as the school's internet reporter.
Next we get a look into the crime world as a small store gets ran into by car. The driver and his assistant get out of the car and try attempt to rob the place, only to get stopped by the new hero in town who fight crime wrapped in a crimson trench coat and with their face in shadows (based on the way the fight goes down, my bet is it's Kitty Pryde). Spider-Man shows up after the fight dies down and the cops show up. Best part: The cops are honored to meet Spider-Man and want to shake his hand, a much different relationship that even Peter hasn't gotten used to.
From this point on in the book, the rest is kind of spoilery and I'd hate to ruin anything for anyone, but I'm very excited with where this is going. I can even get used to Lafuente's art, which at first glance was just too targeted at female readers for me.
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