A suitably nightmarish cover this month. USM 70 started a rare stretch of 3 months with only a single issue in this period, so I can refer to this issue as “this…
Author: spiderdewey
USM 070
It’s called Strange, but the Ultimates are on the cover. Who knows what will happen inside? Not me, I don’t remember this. In my mind, the next major arc followed the Carnage…
USM 069
Well, everyone’s running in terror from the now flying fire man, and no one is more terrified than Liz. Later that night, Johnny’s back in the Baxter Building, clearly upset, and Sue…
USM 068
Well, look who it is. After all these years making fun of the Ultimate Universe for retconning its original FF out of existence, the 2nd Ultimate FF has finally debuted (Cover date…
USM 067
Looks like Logan’s Spider-Sense is tingling. I don’t know if this gag is true, but I wouldn’t be surprised. For one, Nick Lowe famously likes silly comics, and for another, he will…
USM 066
Wolverine. As this hit stands, we were 2 months out from New Avengers 1, but everyone knew it was coming, so knowing Wolverine and Spider-Man would be defying convention by joining the…
USM 065
Well, Gwen’s dead. Gwen’s death was an albatross around ASM’s neck in 1971, as Peter couldn’t very well just go back to normal like nothing happened, but the book kind of wanted…
USM 064
We open on Peter and Curt staring at the thing, Peter demanding to know how it kills people. Curt has no idea, it’s pretty different from the last time he saw it….
USM 063
Really striking cover. I think it’s pretty interesting that so much of the theme of USM is “genetic experimentation is very dangerous.” The rest of the Ultimate line was so much more…
USM 062
In USM 33, probably, I don’t know, I talked about how Bags seemed most qualified to redesign Venom due to having drawn him so much more than anyone. But Carnage? He co-created…