{"id":31265,"date":"2026-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=31265"},"modified":"2024-04-24T16:51:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T20:51:54","slug":"usm-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2026\/02\/07\/usm-106\/","title":{"rendered":"USM 106"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As we have tangentially seen, there is a thing called Marvel Knights. I imagine I talked about it when we looked at DD, Vol. 2 #8. Joe Quesada & Jimmy Palmiotti were given a bunch of lesser characters and a budget to hire people to revamp them, and a lot of those books were hits. Daredevil, Black Panther, Inhumans, etc. Once the line was a success, the many \u201cstreet level\u201d heroes were banded together into a sort of \u201cnon-team\u201d called the Marvel Knights. DD, Black Widow, Shang-Chi, Moon Knight, Punisher, Dr. Strange, I forget who all. Now it seems we\u2019re getting the Ultimate version. I vaguely remember this, but my memories of this and the previously seen Warriors arc kind of blend together. Same creatives as last month. To open, Damage Control, aka the Ultimate Wrecking Crew, are working on Aunt May\u2019s house, courtesy of Nick Fury, and giving Peter trouble for trying to go in and get his stuff. When he finally goes in, Thunderball tries to hit on the waiting MJ til he finds out she\u2019s 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why do you do this, B? I just don\u2019t get it. Why not just make him Jewish!? Was that a bridge too far in the 2000s? Comics still too racist\/gutless to let Spider-Man be Jewish? No one would bat an eyelash now. But either make him Jewish or stop making him talk like he\u2019s Jewish, you know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I like May coming around to this slowly. I like how Bendis has done this so differently from JMS. The TV is saying Spider-Man has unseated Captain America at the top of a poll of New Yorkers\u2019 favorite heroes (Over footage of him fighting the Hulk in UMTU 2 & 3, for some reason. Maybe Bags wanted to draw the Hulk). Kingpin is watching this broadcast. He\u2019s being told by his lackeys that, through a series of mergers and acquisitions, he owns the rights to Spider-Man. That they bought the company that owns the wrestling promotion that Spider-Man debuted in, and therefore, they own him. With his newfound popularity, they thought Fisk would want to know. He instructs them to take every license they can and run Spider-Man into the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter\u2019s off to the Bugle to see if he still has a job. And he doesn\u2019t, because it\u2019s been so long since he went to work. But when he explains where he\u2019s been, he is unfired. I mean\u2026 c\u2019mon. Shouldn\u2019t these investigative journalists have noticed one of their coworkers was in the middle of this big event? It was on the news. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Better hope Ben doesn\u2019t dig too deep! Meanwhile, a guy in a powersuit who lokos more like Shocker than Ultimate Shocker wants to try out for Kingpin\u2019s new assassin, but is quickly sussed out as an undercover and attacked by a small army of goons, then unmasked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe media calls me \u2018Daredevil.\u2019\u201d Is it because of the DD on your chest? Kind of a silly line. Own it, Matthew! Back at the Baxter Building, MJ has been given a clean bill of health, but Peter insists she mention her nightmares and hallucination. They tell her it\u2019s PTSD. The Thing volunteers that he suffers from it, too. They tell her she should see a therapist, but she can\u2019t due to the whole superhero of it all, or at least feels she can\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uh-oh! That sure sounds like something Spider-Man wouldn\u2019t condone! And something the regular DD wouldn\u2019t do. Making this DD a lot more willing to bend the rules and using his double life to his advantage is interesting. In the school, high school senior Jessica Jones (haha) is trying to sell Peter\u2019s class on a project as he and MJ exchange notes about what just happened. Then MJ wants to know if he\u2019s called Kitty yet, and he has not. Come on, dude. And THEN the principle comes in to tell them they have a new student. Someone well known who is willing to talk to the class about any questions her presence may surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That last line is so funny. Like it totally works as something a school admin would say here, but it\u2019s also very funny. Very clever. Well! Things are sort of normal now. Time to get back to somewhat less gut wrenchingly personal superheroics as Bagley\u2019s final arc swings into motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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