Illustrator: Mark Spidey is playing with the big boys now!
This TPB collects "Ultimate Spider-Man" #8-13.
Creative Team:
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Illustrator: Mark Bagley
PLAYING WITH THE BIG BOYS
Peter Parker continues his first steps to become the Amazing Spider-Man in this new Ultimate Marvel Universe, where he is beginning all over again but in a contemporary ambiance.
Peter is still in high school but he needs to help to his Aunt May with some money and he finds a part-time job in the Daily Bugle, with the temperamental J. Jonah Jameson as boss, and it's an useful place to work since he can access the newspaper database to investigate more about the background of the burglar that murdered his Uncle Ben.
Peter learned that the burglar was part of a major crime family who is leading by the mysterious Kingpin (people used to forget that Kingpin wasn't originally a villain of Daredevil but debuted as an antagonist of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man) and it seems that nobody is doing something to stop this criminal organization.
So, what Spider-Man would do? Well, to stop Kingpin, of course!
BUT...
...soon enough Peter will learn that now is playing with the big boys and dealing with Kingpin isn't the same as battling your usual supervillain, and that he isn't prepared to take on a criminal like that.
Kingpin is the absolute ruthless boss of the crime family who controls New York City...
...that's huge indeed!
However...
Kingpin will underestimate Peter for being "just a boy", and that can be a mistake too since Peter isn't "just a boy"...
...he is the Ultimate Spider-Man!!!
And you'll love the priceless true-to-real-life moment when Peter reveals his secret identity to Ultimate Mary Jane Parker! One of my favorite scenes in comic books! Since not all has to be super-punches in comic books.
Illustrator: Mark BaSpider-Man borns again in modern times!
This TPB collects "Ultimate Spider-Man" #1-7.
Creative Team:
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Illustrator: Mark Bagley
POWER
The Amazing Spider-Man "borns" again for a new generation in the 2001's Ultimate Marvel Universe.
This first storyarc re-tells the classic origin of Spider-Man but setting in the new millenium, with current technology, modern storytelling style and...
...an excellent choice for any Spider-Man fan (like me!) for reading Peter Parker's first steps into being the amazing neighborhood hero, in a modern scenario.
The creative team didn't rush the process, and a proof of that is that Peter doesn't go into his formal Spider-suit until the 4th issue of this title, and he doesn't do really super-hero stuff until the 5th issue, that for me it's an (indeed) amazing bold move, since when you're reading it in a TPB, maybe you can't picture the angle that people who got the first three issues of the title, they didn't have the main title hero in his super-hero suit and doing super-hero stuff in three issues!!!
People, that's a bold creative team! (They ruined it later, but right now, it's bold!)
RESPONSIBILITY
Peter Parker has one of the greatest super-hero origins (if not the best) since he makes mistakes and due his own mistakes, terrible things happened, and since then he promised to use with responsibility his powers.
Peter Parker isn't millionaire, isn't an alien with access to advanced technology, isn't trained by masters in different fields,...
...he needs to do even his own costume!
And more important than everything else...
...he doesn't have the luxury of taking aside his personal life when he is doing hero-time, nope, he is Peter Parker all the time, even when he is wearing the wall-crawler costume. When he's battling a super-villain, he still needs to deliver homework at school next day, he still needs to help with chores at home, he still needs to find ways to bring some extra money to support his Aunt May, etc...
Peter Parker is one of the most amazing super-heroes in New York, with a very large and dangerous rogue gallery, but he always is a teenager trying to do what is right...
...since he learn in the very hard way what happens when he doesn't.
Power isn't for your personal gain...
...it's a responsibility about others' safety.
Not matter if they thank you for that or calling you a menace.
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