{"id":28482,"date":"2025-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=28482"},"modified":"2024-02-21T19:20:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T23:20:30","slug":"usm-077","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/09\/05\/usm-077\/","title":{"rendered":"USM 077"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome back to Fun City, USA, where Harry continues to beg Peter to kill him, and Peter makes an impassioned speech about how they\u2019ve been friends since they were kids and he wants to help him. The Shaw in Harry\u2019s head says Peter won\u2019t do it, that only his father can end this. So the twist is Harry was being pushed to find his dad\u2026 to have his dad kill him? I mean, obviously Harry is Not Well, but that doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense. He coulda just drowned himself or something. And Shaw was clearly telling him they had to go rescue his dad in previous issues, not supporting his quest for death. It\u2019s a Mark Millar-style “twist,” meaning really more of a bait and switch. Not great. Anyway, Shaw tells Harry he has to push this further, so he takes Peter\u2019s hand, but then, of course\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whatever Harry is telling himself will have to wait, as we go see Nick Fury being interviewed at the Triskelion when the news finally reaches him of the battle. He quickly learns his agent monitoring Harry is unresponsive, and then, while scrambling Hulkbuster units, is told by Agent Woo that they tested and re-tested Harry\u2019s blood and DNA for months, and found no trace of Oz in him. \u201cAnd yet, here we are,\u201d says Nick, as we return to the battle, where Spider-Man is trying to save a news crew too stupid to run for their lives as Fury & his Hulkbusters show up. Harry just bellows \u201cThank you\u201d as they threaten to put him down, and Spider-man rushes to try to prevent Harry\u2019s suicide-by-cop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, all the SHIELD guys shoot the crap out of a Harry yelling \u201cDoo iiittt!!\u201d, and then he falls down, and turns back into a regular guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In both the Ultimate and Original Recipe universes, it is my opinion that Bendis becomes too dependent on SHIELD. They show up to just about everything. It becomes very predictable, which is bad enough, but more and more stories are \u201cWhat happened?\u201d \u201cSHIELD won\u2019t say.\u201d \u201cWell, that sucks, The End.\u201d And for USM, in particular, it just feels like Nick Fury is around too much. I get it, I do. Why wouldn\u2019t SHIELD show up to a fiery battle in the middle of Manhattan? It\u2019s that most-beloved of words at 2000s-era Marvel, \u201crealistic.\u201d But it\u2019s just not too satisfying most of the time. \u201cHow will Spider-Man stop the rampage of his friend who wants to die?\u201d \u201cOh, he won\u2019t.\u201d Not the most thrilling conclusion. But wait, there\u2019s more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not hard to see that coming. \u201cThe hero walls himself off and pushes people away\u201d is pretty well-trod territory, but not for these 2. And since these 2 are more real than basically any superhero comic characters before them, it has a lot more weight than it sometimes has. More on that next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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