{"id":30972,"date":"2026-01-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=30972"},"modified":"2024-04-20T18:13:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T22:13:45","slug":"usm-087","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2026\/01\/18\/usm-087\/","title":{"rendered":"USM 087"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, then. Dropping the USM Annual where I did might seem a little weird. But this month, Mary Jane is very unhappy to see Peter smiling like an idiot in school, oblivious to the world, because he\u2019s thinking about Kitty Pryde. And since he wasn\u2019t thinking about her at all last issue, well\u2026 the annual goes where it goes. He\u2019s trying to talk himself into the idea that he could date her publicly, as himself, but quickly crushes that idea, thinking of all the other suspicious stuff he\u2019s constantly having to try to get past Aunt May. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bit of a mix up with the word balloons there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What happened was (we see), Spider-Man was gonna change in that alley, but stopped when he saw Flash enjoying a candy bar next to a dumpster, which is a strange thing to do. Then he webbed his backpack off a little awning it was hidden on and left, just in time for Flash to get nabbed. What\u2019re the odds?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ponsor using that spotlight to make Flash bright yellow smashing into the goons up top is really, really smart. It sells a pretty improbable physical attack, makes it look more dramatic. Flash manages to escape, which is also pretty improbable, but it\u2019s not like he could die like this. But Sable knows he\u2019s Fred Thompson, so he\u2019s not out of the woods yet. Meanwhile, back at school\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ouch! Elsewhere, Silver Sable & Co. are watching a press conference wherein county sheriff Mike McNeely is explaining that \u201cFreddie Thompson\u201d was kidnapped from his school by weirdoes who thought he was Spider-Man, and is working with the FBI to identify them. The Sheriff says Flash is a hero, which he will no doubt be eating out on for some time. Sable has not hear from Roxxon in a while, and is not pleased. So, later, she accosts him leaving work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not lookin\u2019 good for Silver. Presumably around the same time, Peter and Kitty are hanging out in his basement, and he\u2019s telling her about the Rhino, when the phone rings. It\u2019s a barely together MJ asking if he\u2019s watching the news. She hangs up before he can say anything. She looks to be in total despair, and man does Bagley sell it in a single panel. Next morning, Flash is on Good Morning America with his hilariously mugging Mom, as we cut to such luminaries as Liz, Kong, Tandy Bowen and Principle Ross Andru (!) reacting to the situation in their various ways. Then our man happens on the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ooooof! I\u2019ll take \u201cDialogue That Would Never See Print Now\u201d for $500, Alex. Man, my references get dustier by the year. But I will also take \u201cDialogue Bendis Wouldn\u2019t Dream of Writing Today Because He\u2019s Grown As A Person,\u201d to be fair. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now that\u2019s a USM cliffhanger. It\u2019s not the end of the world. It\u2019s not life or death. It\u2019s not the devil wanting someone\u2019s marriage. It\u2019s a random bag check that could ruin Peter\u2019s life. It\u2019s good to be back. Man, this Ultimate Vision thing in the back of these books was just a glorified teaser for something, but I do not at all remember what. I know Millar ends up back on Ultimates (finally called Ultimate Avengers by then) eventually, but not yet, and I don\u2019t know what else he did in the Ultimate U. Maybe something in Ultimate FF? I have no recollection. Something I didn\u2019t buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, then. Dropping the USM Annual where I did might seem a little weird. But this month, Mary Jane is very unhappy to see Peter smiling like an idiot in school, oblivious…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864],"tags":[1922,12,2262,301,1925,172,339,21,417,276,2,1923],"class_list":["post-30972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","tag-brian-michael-bendis","tag-flash-thompson","tag-justin-ponsor","tag-kitty-pryde","tag-kong","tag-liz-allen","tag-mark-bagley","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-scott-hanna","tag-silver-sable","tag-spider-man","tag-ultimate-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972","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=30972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30973,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972\/revisions\/30973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}