{"id":22821,"date":"2024-09-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=22821"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:42:09","slug":"umtu-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/09\/19\/umtu-02\/","title":{"rendered":"UMTU 02"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Before Peter can investigate the Kingpin, he\u2019s got someone else to meet. I mean, maybe. I\u2019m not sure what the intended reading order was. UMTU 3 came out the same month as USM 8, and it feels like 2 & 3 could happen before 9. That\u2019s how I\u2019m doin\u2019 it, anyway. People posting reading orders these days understandably focus on collections, so jamming issues of different series together is just gonna have to be up to me. This 2-part is by penciler Phil Hester, his longtime collaborator Ande Parks inking and colorist Jung Choi as always. Hester is a pretty beloved guy in his era. Maybe not a superstar, but definitely a \u201cfan favorite.\u201d Wagner was one of Bendis\u2019 heroes, this is one of his contemporaries. I feel I must be transparent and say he\u2019s not really for me. His stuff is loose and cartoony in a way I\u2019m not looking for in superhero comics. His style is consistent and intentional and I recognize the skill, just not for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JJJ & Robbie come whipping by having a heated debate about publishing a segment on mutant hysteria, as Ben desperately tries to tell them a green mutant is coming to wreck New York. Along the way, JJJ mentions Robbie\u2019s decision to publish  \u201cthe Victor Von Doom manifesto,\u201d which is the first of many references to the Fantastic Four corner of the nascent Ultimate U that will have to be stricken from the record later, weirdly enough. Anyway, they\u2019re arguing and Ben is laying out what\u2019s going to happen to deaf ears until he says they need to tell the TV stations, which gets JJJ\u2019s attention. He says TV is the enemy, but Ben says if a monster is coming, the people have a right to be warned. As JJJ asks how far away it is, the building shakes. Everyone rushes off to do their job and Ben Urich, whose original incarnation famously figured out Daredevil was Matt Murdock, is pointedly shown noticing Peter disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A quick and smartly done montage of our hero swinging further into chaos and danger as he gets closer to the Hulk leads us to\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean, it\u2019s all personal preference, but this looks to me more like art suitable for the comics they made adapting their Saturday morning cartoon shows. A guy takes a photo of Hulk, and the noise gets his attention (Which seems\u2026 a bit unlikely given the circumstances? Surely there\u2019s screaming people, car alarms, building alarms, etc everywhere?), and Hulk is about to smash. So Spider-Man lifts up a whole taxi and drops it on him. Spidey is quite pleased with himself until Hulk clambers out of the car pile he\u2019s in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean, that joke is pushing it, but it\u2019s also pretty funny, you can\u2019t deny it. An increasingly scared Spider-Man dodges another attack, then tries webbing Hulk\u2019s eyes, with Hester continuing to draw Spider-Man\u2019s web shooting like a firehose of liquid instead of, like, a web, but that only distracts him for so long. Spidey hits him with a mailbox and says he should really fall down, when a bike messenger throws a rock at Hulk. He\u2019s hit by some flying debris in response, and Spider-Man is so preoccupied helping him that he doesn\u2019t react when Hulk grabs him by the head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is some pretty classical style Marvel Team-Up for ya. MTU rarely let them use the Bugle staff so much, but otherwise, we\u2019re in familiar territory. We\u2019ll see how our hero avoids getting his head crushed next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before Peter can investigate the Kingpin, he\u2019s got someone else to meet. I mean, maybe. I\u2019m not sure what the intended reading order was. UMTU 3 came out the same month as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864,1],"tags":[1931,113,1922,59,13,26,1927,1930,2,1928],"class_list":["post-22821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-uncategorized","tag-ande-parks","tag-ben-urich","tag-brian-michael-bendis","tag-hulk","tag-j-jonah-jameson","tag-joe-robertson","tag-jung-choi","tag-phil-hester","tag-spider-man","tag-ultimate-marvel-team-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22828,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22821\/revisions\/22828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}