{"id":24145,"date":"2024-12-18T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=24145"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:40:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:40:48","slug":"usm-024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/12\/18\/usm-024\/","title":{"rendered":"USM 024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A surprisingly specific cover for the period. Cover date for this one is September 2002. UMTU is way behind. But UMTU 11 couldn\u2019t happen til after Gwen Stacy was introduced, and none of the ones after it could happen til after Peter was ungrounded, and now he\u2019s doing this. You would expect tighter continuity between 2 books written by the same person, but then, history has shown that\u2019s not always the case. Not everyone is 80s Gerry Conway. Page 1 this month replays the final page of last month, but curiously not with the same art. Then we get to see who or what Peter saw, and it\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nick Fury! Now rendered to match his appearance in The Ultimates, but Bags has more class than to just trace pictures of Samuel L. Jackson (Without his permission or knowledge, no less!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fury proceeds to explain that Oz originated as Norman\u2019s bid for a new Super Soldier Serum. That Norman\u2019s project was sloppy and clearly didn\u2019t work, and that Fury personally severed ties with Oscorp. So, having bet his company on a now canceled project,  then Osborn pivoted to telling the press he had accidentally stumbled on something that would change the world without explaining what it is (And, if that sounds far fetched, you must not have been there at the turn of the century, when this exact thing happened and the miracle product that would change our lives forever turned out to be\u2026 the Segway). But Fury says he was 7 years away from real results, and then Peter\u2019s accident happened, and now Norman\u2019s driven himself insane and turned himself into a monster, and he blames Fury for everything. Fury explains that he is not legally allowed to go after Norman despite knowing all this, and casually lets Peter know Norman did all this to himself trying to recreate what happened to him, triggering Ye Olde Parker Guilt, and finally gets around to telling Peter he is on his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some might question that panel of Peter looking out the window, but I love it. Just a brief reminder for him of what normal life is supposed to be like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If they ever told us the origin of Fury\u2019s eye injury in the Ultimate universe, I don\u2019t remember it. I\u2019m not sure I remember it in the regular one. But that\u2019s a great bit. So, Peter is released back into the wild, and seeing Harry & MJ in the hall at school, he just runs away, because he is understandably freaking out. And when he gets home, Osborn\u2019s assistant is back with the limo, to take both Peter & May to dinner with Osborn. Peter pulls May aside and explains as best he can that he doesn\u2019t want to do this, that he worries Osborn is a bad person. May says Uncle Ben used to say \u201cNever met a man with money who hadn\u2019t stepped on someone to get it,\u201d and she is now in lockstep with her nephew. She tells Ms. Brooke they can\u2019t make it. She says Osborn was looking forward to meeting her, but they both say another time. When the limo is gone, May asks Peter what they\u2019re going to do tonight, and in what has to be a reference to the 1989 Batman, Peter says, \u201cI gotta go to work.\u201d So, that night, Spider-Man is swinging through the city, thinking to himself that this is it. That May was being loaded into Osborn\u2019s limo and where was Nick Fury? He says he\u2019ll go to the cops, the FBI, take off his mask and tell the world what\u2019s going on no matter the consequences before he\u2019ll let May be hurt. And then he sees\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, obviously, everyone in the audience is now immediately thinking about ASM 121<\/a>, and about how the Ultimate U is different and anything can happen, and that 30 day wait for the next issue, that is really, really hard. Man, it was fun reading comics back then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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