Big finish. It’s very Ultimate Spider-Man that this story isn’t over when Doc Ock is defeated. The Peter Parker story is more important. A core reason this was the best Spider-Man comic…
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USM 056
Back to pretty generic. And a bit odd looking, too. Maybe it’s Isanove, but it sort of looks like someone doing a Bagley impression more than Bags himself. This month beings at…
USM 055
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…
USM 054
This is a special month, because the digital painting on the covers suddenly gets way better. And for the first time in 54 issues, the painter signs their work, so we know…
USM 034
This issue picks up the second the last one left off, with Peter understandably asking Eddie what the goo is. He says it’s what their fathers were working on, what would have…
USM 028
Back to USM for a vaguely patriotic cover. This is a bit of a wacky one. Our tale begins with Peter Parker in the library, being a nerd, when MJ runs in…
USM Super Special
Behold it. Published the same month as UMTU 16, the real grand finale of the series arrives in an oversized “jam book.” I think this is the first place he does it,…
Wizard 1/2
The “Wizard ½” was a gimmick running through the prominent comics magazine of the same name where they’d issues these specials in conjunction with the various publishers as collectibles. They came with…
USM 022
With Peter grounded, there’s not many places UMTU could feasibly be taking place, so we’ll have to see how long it lasts. This month, we open on a gang of purse snatchers…
UMTU 11
After the rather absurd label of “manga-influenced” was applied to not very manga-looking superhero art in the mid-to-late 90s, Americans (& Canadians) doing actual manga-influenced art gained steam. People like Adam Warren,…