{"id":31166,"date":"2026-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=31166"},"modified":"2024-04-22T17:45:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T21:45:37","slug":"usm-098","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2026\/01\/30\/usm-098\/","title":{"rendered":"USM 098"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Spider-Woman with brown hair in a story called Clone Saga? Wouldja believe\u2026? Drew Hennessy shares the inks this month, and Justin Ponsor is back on colors. Are they just swapping?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another glimpse of the really mishandled Ultimate FF. Who, as you can see here, have kind of settled into their roles in the group, except they\u2019re all 16 for some reason. It was a weird choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I guess the FF technically met Spider-Man during Ultimates 2. Man, what a dumb situation. That book had villains led by Loki taking over the US or whatever and they rounded up all the heroes. We saw Spider-Man in shackles with the FF and others in a single panel in issue 11. Look, here it is\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And on the cover of issue 12…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…and inside, when the good guys inevitably turned the tide, he was in this double-page splash\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But neither he nor any of the characters who didn\u2019t star it that book actually spoke at all, and the momentous first meetings of many Ultimate characters happens off-panel in a prison cell. Great stuff. Anyway, there you have it. Our man asks if Reed can identify who the guy he brought is in, and do it in a way that Nick Fury won\u2019t be aware of. He says he can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hilarious bit from Johnny. But so real. Reed awkwardly calls Nick Fury to make sure cloning is still illegal, with a flimsy excuse, which makes Nick think Reed wants to try it, which is a better excuse. Sue continues to say they should wake the clone up, and Reed wants a blood sample from Peter to compare. While taking it, he asks where Spider-Man got his powers, and like everyone else, thinks he\u2019s making a joke when he answers honestly. But then Spider-Man realizes what time it is, and has to run before he gets kicked out of the house for not being home on time. The FF are pretty amazed he\u2019d run away from this, but Sue says, \u201cThe kid\u2019s a kid, give him a break,\u201d like she\u2019s not also a kid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter goes to MJ\u2019s house first, where her understandably freaked Mom shows him her room, with the window open. She asks where MJ went when she ran away last time, and Peter runs off to check their spot. He doesn\u2019t find her, but he does fine\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He attacks her, but he\u2019s half-crazed, and she easily sidesteps him and throws him into a wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, look, obviously, you have to be able to suspend your disbelief and all, and I do, but everyone has their breaking points, and web fingers? How would that even work, biologically? Shouldn\u2019t she have weird thick fingers and\/or some kind of spinnerette bulging out of her wrist or palm or something? Does she have hollow finger bones through which this web travels? It\u2019s a bit much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter wakes up, wondering how long he\u2019s been out. He clocks that the Spider-Woman acted like she knew him. He suddenly hits on the idea that MJ might\u2019ve gone to his old house. She still hasn\u2019t been to his new one, after all. So he rushes there, and the door is open. And someone inside says, \u201cYou moved?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s a Clone Saga!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cYears ago\u201d is a weird thing to say. I think he\u2019s meant to still be 15. Maybe he\u2019s turned 16, tops. They knew they wanted to keep this book in high school essentially forever, he definitely hasn\u2019t been Spider-Man for years. But also, that\u2019s clearly another clone, so\u2026. What\u2019s going on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We have to wait til next time. This one was just so intense. The next issue could not come out fast enough. And that only gets more painful when the book abruptly returns to a monthly schedule after next issue. Bags produced 16 issues of USM in 2006, he\u2019s entitled to slow down a little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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