Like, everyone knew Doc Ock was wearing a long coat in Spider-Man 2, but no one seemed willing to just let it be a trench coat in the comics. This month, we open on Doc Ock finding a house he likes and presumably killing its occupant to take over for awhile. Then we cut to a page of people auditioning for the Spider-Man movie, the last of them being Kong.
Peter and MJ chase after Gwen, Peter trying to point out it wasn’t really Spider-Man who killed her dad, as usual, Gwen not caring at all, as usual. I mean, what does she care about the technicality, really, this is her life. She storms off, and MJ tries to get Peter to not feel guilty, but it’s what he does. He says he wishes there was a big, bad villain for him to beat up right now, and he may regret that. At that moment, Doc Ock is having a lively one-way conversation with his arms, saying he doesn’t want to go anywhere near Peter, because that’s the first place they would look. But he agrees with his arms, Peter will be punished. Then the arms interrupt him to turn up the news so a TV lady can exposit that Ock’s ex-wife is a consultant on the Spider-Man movie. She is interviewed from the set, saying Ock is a tragic, pathetic figure, which causes him to wreck the living room of the house he stole. Then, we find Gwen getting home from school, noting the neighborhood is full of black vans and obvious plain clothes goons as Aunt May calls, and she assures May everything’s fine, even as she’s sure it isn’t.
That… is so good. Just straight up regular Mysterio as a goofy villain invented for the movie. Spider-Man is perched way up a nearby building, just watching, and Avi and Sam argue about what to do, as another guy runs up to say Ock broke out of jail.
I just don’t understand why it’s an Inverness coat in both comic lines. Why not just a regular coat, like in the movie? Especially in the so-called “grounded” Ultimate universe. I don’t get it. Where’d he ever get this coat?
Hey, it’s fightin’ time. And not even halfway through the story. You know it’s gonna be rough.