In my clearly failing memory, Gwen’s death went into the Wolverine story and then right into this, the latest Goblin story. Those last 4 issues, I forgot them entirely. This, I remember….
Month: August 2025
USM PS2
So this is weird, but at this point, I have to talk about the Ultimate Spider-Man PS2 game. Bendis wrote it, did a bunch on it. He worked on it with a…
USM 071
A suitably nightmarish cover this month. USM 70 started a rare stretch of 3 months with only a single issue in this period, so I can refer to this issue as “this…
USM 070
It’s called Strange, but the Ultimates are on the cover. Who knows what will happen inside? Not me, I don’t remember this. In my mind, the next major arc followed the Carnage…
USM 069
Well, everyone’s running in terror from the now flying fire man, and no one is more terrified than Liz. Later that night, Johnny’s back in the Baxter Building, clearly upset, and Sue…
USM 068
Well, look who it is. After all these years making fun of the Ultimate Universe for retconning its original FF out of existence, the 2nd Ultimate FF has finally debuted (Cover date…
USM 067
Looks like Logan’s Spider-Sense is tingling. I don’t know if this gag is true, but I wouldn’t be surprised. For one, Nick Lowe famously likes silly comics, and for another, he will…
USM 066
Wolverine. As this hit stands, we were 2 months out from New Avengers 1, but everyone knew it was coming, so knowing Wolverine and Spider-Man would be defying convention by joining the…
USM 065
Well, Gwen’s dead. Gwen’s death was an albatross around ASM’s neck in 1971, as Peter couldn’t very well just go back to normal like nothing happened, but the book kind of wanted…
USM 064
We open on Peter and Curt staring at the thing, Peter demanding to know how it kills people. Curt has no idea, it’s pretty different from the last time he saw it….