{"id":28172,"date":"2025-08-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=28172"},"modified":"2024-02-21T19:21:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T23:21:41","slug":"usm-063","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/08\/21\/usm-063\/","title":{"rendered":"USM 063"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Really striking cover. I think it\u2019s pretty interesting that so much of the theme of USM is \u201cgenetic experimentation is very dangerous.\u201d The rest of the Ultimate line was so much more all over the place. Poorer adaptations, and even when the other books were at their best, they were going to change hands, they didn\u2019t have a single writer at the helm for a remarkably long time like USM. And thus, USM kind of IS the Ultimate Universe to me. And USM takes the same world full of heroes and villains mutated by accidents or genetics and goes \u201cThis is actually terrifying.\u201d This world\u2019s Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Venom, Carnage, they\u2019re all these horrible results of humans playing god. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a theme you\u2019d necessarily look for in a Spider-Man comic, but boy does it play. Well, this month, we open on the truly tragic moment of Aunt May coming home, and, after thinking she\u2019s having a normal night, being the one to find Gwen out in the yard. And thinking to herself, \u201cnot again\u2026\u201d And then Peter gets the call at the Bugle, and is so upset he swings home in his normal clothes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter goes inside, and quietly, angrily tears his backpack open, exposing the Spider-Man suit inside, which he buries his face in. He\u2019s shaking with rage. Downstairs, Aunt May is trying to get ahold of Gwen\u2019s terrible mother, but she doesn\u2019t live wherever she was at the only number May had. May blows up at the person on the phone, and we find Peter, MJ and MJ\u2019s Mom in the kitchen with her, trying to calm her down. May stalks out of the room, defeated. MJ\u2019s mom is saying May & Peter can come stay with them, but he\u2019s so out of it he\u2019s barely registering anything she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSweetie\u201d is so inherently a thing your mom or your grandma calls you, to me. A teenage girl calling her guy that just sounds weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Powerful work. Later, Peter sits alone, thinking about what those cops said, imagining various enemies (And Wolverine) as the culprit, until he remembers they mentioned ESU. He\u2019s driven to go look out the window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Will they ever let Ultimate Spider-Man fight a symbiote in costume? Only time will tell!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Really striking cover. I think it\u2019s pretty interesting that so much of the theme of USM is \u201cgenetic experimentation is very dangerous.\u201d The rest of the Ultimate line was so much more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864],"tags":[35,455,1922,581,16,2131,158,339,21,417,2],"class_list":["post-28172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","tag-aunt-may","tag-ben-reilly","tag-brian-michael-bendis","tag-curt-connors","tag-gwen-stacy","tag-jd-smith","tag-jean-dewolff","tag-mark-bagley","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-scott-hanna","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28172","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=28172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28173,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28172\/revisions\/28173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}