{"id":31002,"date":"2026-01-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=31002"},"modified":"2024-04-20T18:40:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T22:40:49","slug":"usm-090","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2026\/01\/21\/usm-090\/","title":{"rendered":"USM 090"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This month (And I can say that, this is the 2nd month in a row where Bags only had to do one issue of USM, after producing 9 issues in 5 months with 80-88) sees the end of this Silver Sable story. It\u2019s been a pretty twisty one. Despite the whole controversy over the game tie-in, it\u2019s a very strong arc. USM was really back to firing on all cylinders by now. And this last issue is a milestone, because it brings in Bagley\u2019s last inker on the book, John Dell. My memory is John Dell made Bags look even better than his predecessors. Let\u2019s see!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heck of a spread to open your tenure on this book with! As Spider-Man chases the Vulture, SHIELD agent Sharon Carter, having ditched her usual trench coat and glasses for a SHIELD suit (And having turned her hair from red to brown for some reason) reports to the boss man about what\u2019s happening as she engages a cloaking device. Tony Stark is there, and offers to go become Iron Man, but Fury says to let it play out. In the blown up building, Sable\u2019s guys really want to leave, but she says not yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ultimate Peter doesn\u2019t just use a lot of Yiddish, he often sounds like a grandma when he does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blackie Drago! First of all, it\u2019s 2006, don\u2019t use that name! Second of all, surprised it\u2019s not Toomes. I didn\u2019t remember that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blackie looks like he enjoys his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What\u2019s Fury up to? Back at the fight, Spidey gets Vulture with a real Gil Kane action punch shot, and then Vulture throws knives from his wings, like Archangel does. Spider-Man says \u201cGo back to the grenades!\u201d, which is pretty great, as Fury instructs Carter to keep an eye on Sable, and Roxxon gets a phone call. He tries to tell whoever\u2019s calling to send help, but they are not on his side. In short order on a tense 2-page spread, the mystery voice taunts Roxxon, SHIELD gets a lock on the caller\u2019s location, Iron Man is deployed, and Sable lines up a shot at the Vulture\u2019s famously vulnerable power pack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What a sequence! The big battle in this issue was really great. So much going on at once. I really love how often poor Ultimate Peter ends up with no idea what he\u2019s even been doing. It seems very realistic. Nick Fury and Iron Man get some closure, tho, as they arrive at the lab of one Elijah Stern (Who does not immediately give his name, but when asked if he\u2019s an inventor, says \u201cI tinker\u201d) which is full of throwaway references to Marvel villains like the Unicorn and Jack O\u2019 Lantern and even a Ditko Vulture suit. We learn he found a way to use Vibranium as a powersource, and Roxxon fired him, \u201cthrowing away the future,\u201d and he wanted revenge. Pretty standard. Tinker soon finds himself pressed into Nick Fury\u2019s service to avoid being killed. As we pull out, Nick asks what that thing over there is, and Stern says it\u2019s \u201ca slayer.\u201d Uh-oh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So now both Kong and Flash have benefitted from Spider-Man in ways Peter never will. Guy can\u2019t catch a break. As we see, next: Deadpool. It\u2019s\u2026 not great! But John Dell sure is. This issue looked fantastic. You know, I think Scott Hanna is one of the great inkers of all-time, but not everyone is perfect for everything, and Dell just seems more right for Bagley to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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