These issue titles are getting really weird. Is the damage to the spine of this issue obvious from the picture? These covers got so flimsy when they changed from cardstock. We open on Peter Parker trying to find something he could make himself a new suit out of at an athletics store, and what he’s asking for just gets him a weird look from the clerk.
A dig at the post-X-Men movie comics landscape and a dig at himself in the same panel by Bendis (Who is pretty short). Soon, our guy is in school, not paying attention, worrying about his troubles, as a teacher goes on about reactivating the school TV news program. MJ sees him miles away and writes a note.
This is another very memorable sequence from this series. We are spared Peter & MJ’s mortification as the story jumps ahead a bit to Peter calling the wrestling company, trying to find out about his suit by pretending to be a rep from Hasbro, but that doesn’t go anywhere. When he hangs up the phone, Flash is behind him. Flash says he’s gotta talk to Peter, and asks if they can go outside for a sec. Peter, understandably, assumes this is a trick and refuses, but we can tell Flash was not being the usual Flash. Kong asks what’s going on as Peter walks off, and Flash says nothing. Cut to night time, and a woman being chased down the street by some bad guys.
Really slummin’ it. Soon, Peter is home, angry that he can’t figure out how to get the lenses to stay in his mask, when someone knocks at the door of his basement, and he hurriedly hides the Spider-Evidence in a locker as Gwen Stacy comes down.
Smash cut to them at the party, sitting by themselves, having a terrible time. Peter wants to leave, and is in the middle of asking what he could possibly get out of this when the answer walks in.
But before they can leave, something explodes outside. Everyone runs out to find people chanting the name “Geldoff” behind a mystery man standing next to a smoking, blown up car. People egg him on to do another one, and he powers up…
This, we were told, was the introduction of the Ultimate Universe’s first original villain. We’ll see how that works out…