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This month, we open on Peter at a computer at school, narrating that he\u2019s been too stupid as Spider-Man, and that has to stop. He\u2019s found the company that makes Kingpin\u2019s security cameras, set up a fake email, and contacted them as \u201cArthur Simek\u201d interested in learning what the setup process is like. Artie Simek is one of Silver Age Marvel\u2019s most recognizable names due to lettering a huge percentage of the classic comics. People have always loved to put references to Stan or Jack or Steve into the books, but you don\u2019t see many for Artie Simek, so that\u2019s cool. Then we hop ahead a bit to Peter in a session with an unnamed woman who says she\u2019s there as a counselor for the students after the Spider-Man\/Green Goblin fight. Peter is very uncomfortable, and that doesn\u2019t change as she asks questions about just where he was during the battle and reveals she knows Uncle Ben died. Peter asks if he has to do this, and when told it\u2019s voluntary, bails immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I always thought Liz Allan\u2019s name was spelled \u201cLiz Allen.\u201d Maybe that\u2019s Bendis\u2019s fault, looking at this page. Peter thinks that he feels really responsible for the way Liz has taken this. That he was silly and cocky dealing with Green Goblin, and someone could\u2019ve died. Then he checks his email, sees nothing for Arthur Simek, and continues on to class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bendis is a huge movie & pop culture nerd and you really feel it with the references people make in his comics. Also, basically the only OTHER letterer of the Silver Age Marvel Comics was, you guessed it, Sam Rosen. And as Peter watches a video on the camera system across the next 2 pages, it\u2019s hosted by Patsy Walker, who in the original Marvel U was a model in some comedy books for girls in the 60s before becoming Hellcat in the 70s. Peter learns all about how this company\u2019s product retains camera footageon automatically burned DVDs for record keeping purposes for each customer. He thinks about being unmasked on camera, he thinks about the murder of Mr. Big, and then Spider-Man is swinging out into the  night. At Fisk Tower, underlings are talking about intimidating the news channel that reported on Mr. Big\u2019s death, but all Kingpin cares about is Spider-Man\u2019s unrecovered body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good gag!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, Spider-Man has found his way to the room where the DVDs are kept, and is amazed this plan worked. He just starts grabbing discs, assuming (Probably rightly) that any one of them could contain incriminating evidence, and is feeling pretty good about this scheme until he barely dodges a zap, and then a lasso loops around his throat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\u2019re headed for a final showdown next issue! Can Spidey redeem himself? I mean, probably, but this is Ultimate Spider-Man, anything could happen on the way to that victory. This month\u2019s letter page finally contains a name I recognize from Bendis\u2019 forum. I knew we\u2019d start showing up sooner or later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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