Marvel’s next huge crossover is finally here the Death of Spiderman. This crossover takes place in the Ultimates universe, and as you can imagine the end result of this story will be the end of one of our favorite superheroes, the Amazing Spider-Man.
This is a six-month cross over event beginning this week and spanning all the way until August. Although it may seem like an extremely long time, Ultimates fan’s will rejoice to know that they will now be able to read some of their favorite titles monthly instead of bi-monthly, which is a definite plus. The crossover involves two titles, Ultimate Spider-Man and a new mini series created for this crossover entitled Ultimate Avengers vs. New Ultimates.
For this crossover, Marvel has enlisted many of its heavy hitters both in writing and art for the two stories involved. Like always, Ultimate Spider-Man is written by fan favorite Brian Michael Bendis, with art done by the team of Sara Pichello, David Lafuente, Lan Medina, and Ed Tadeo, and the best is still to come. Ultimate Avengers vs. New Ultimates is written by the legendary Mark Millar, and penciled by equally as legendary Lenil Yu. Marvel decided to jump-start this cross over with the release of two of the installments this week.
The Death of Spider-Man promotional postcard that was released a few weeks ago solicits that you should read Ultimate Avengers vs. New Ultimates to start off the crossover, but after reading the two, it really doesn’t matter which you read first. So lets start with Ultimate Spider-Man. This issue is a prelude to the Death of Spider-Man cross over. Two storylines are taking place in this issue, which end up intertwining by the end. First off, Spider-Man is being training by Tony Stark in order to become a better super-hero. The second story line that is occurring is that the Black Cat has had a weapon of ultimate power come into her hands. Mysterio is now harassing her, due to the fact that he wants that power for himself and he is willing to do anything to trick her into giving it to him.
One of the things I see as a downside to Ultimate Spider-Man as a whole is that the book is very childish; Peter Parker is still in high-school so Bendis tries to cater towards that making him as immature as he can, which is one of the reasons why the story line of him being trained by Tony Stark. There is an upside though, the reader still gets all of the great Bendis dialogue with is never less than awesome in any book he writes, so in a way it kind of evens out.
Ultimate Avengers vs. New Ultimates was awesome to say the least. I have been reading Mark Millar’s series Superior, and when I saw that the same team was on this book I knew it was going to be good. The story line starts off right after the end of the last Ultimate Avengers storyline, and goes straight into the aftermath. The story releases an unsettling fact, and the issue reveals exactly what is going on between the super powers of the world. The end of the issue has a cliffhanger like no other, and will definitely excite the reader and leave them wanting more.
Overall, The Death of Spider-Man arc is off to a good start. I am interested to see how they will intertwine the two stories since there is sort of a disjuncture between the two stories so there should definitely be something big that will happen to bring them together.
9 out of 10
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