{"id":24292,"date":"2024-12-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=24292"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:40:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:40:47","slug":"umtu-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/12\/27\/umtu-16\/","title":{"rendered":"UMTU 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yep, more Bruce Lee. Shameless. After the so-called fairy tale recaps, sort of, we get right back into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some collar on that shirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a very Bendis speech. It\u2019s one of his weaknesses. It\u2019s too long, it doesn\u2019t tell us too much we didn\u2019t know, and it just doesn\u2019t feel too natural from a writer known for his natural dialogue. Sometimes, he\u2019ll have a character just start monologing like this, doubling back on things (\u201cwants him back. Back and alive. Alive, but broken\u201d). It kinda feels like vamping for time, which is especially egregious in a book ostensibly trying to tell you who Ultimate Shang-Chi is, despite him not actually saying a word so far. Speaking of, Shang-Chi is taking out the trash when he\u2019s warned by the old man he works for that he heard what\u2019s comin\u2019 down, and he should flee. The old man also explicitly names Shang\u2019s dad as Fu Manchu. Almost dodged that bullet! A page of the fairy tale thing talking about how the prince found himself surrounded by warriors, then a 2-page spread of Shang-Chi surrounded by warriors as he was attempting to leave town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fightin\u2019 continues for 4 pages, including a moment when Shang-Chi sort of makes his shirt explode? I think maybe he\u2019s supposed to be ripping it off, but that\u2019s not how it looks. Anyway, we were promised a team-up, so\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rick Mays only seemed to have, like, 4 facial expressions in his repertoire, and one of them is \u201c4-year old who saw a dog\u201d used to mean surprise. And what\u2019s with Spidey\u2019s hand there? Why cop out on the webbing just there? You won\u2019t believe it, but these are the following 2 pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yeah, man, 3 pages wasted on that lady babbling at unnamed goons and then this book literally runs out of pages. I wonder if that was Mays going off book. Wouldn\u2019t be the first time Bendis had that happen to him. What an awkward, abrupt ending. And that, even more abruptly, is the final issue of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up. Really. Not exactly a huge finale, but don\u2019t worry, they got that covered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yep, more Bruce Lee. Shameless. After the so-called fairy tale recaps, sort of, we get right back into it. Some collar on that shirt. This is a very Bendis speech. It\u2019s one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864,1],"tags":[2003,1922,2004,2002,755,2,1956,1928],"class_list":["post-24292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-uncategorized","tag-andy-lee","tag-brian-michael-bendis","tag-jason-martin","tag-rick-mays","tag-shang-chi","tag-spider-man","tag-transparency-digital","tag-ultimate-marvel-team-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24293,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24292\/revisions\/24293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}