{"id":28543,"date":"2025-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=28543"},"modified":"2024-02-21T19:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T23:20:20","slug":"usm-079","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/09\/07\/usm-079\/","title":{"rendered":"USM 079"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I remember this arc has a lot of guest stars. I remember thinking the book was turning around during it. We\u2019ll see how good my memory is. We open on some shadowy figures watching a news story about Kingpin\u2019s right-hand man going to trial for, you know, being Kingpin\u2019s right-hand man (This story was Tivoed. Timeless reference). Then we learn the people watching it are Ultimate Silvermane and some associates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cartoon Italian mobster Silvermane says \u201ctuchas,\u201d of course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And there\u2019s Ultimate Hammerhead, with a pretty finely crafted opening line there. Next day, it\u2019s high school, and more specifically, it\u2019s the scene where Peter storms out of class last issue, now from his perspective. Real Bendis move. He is upset about breaking up with MJ, didn\u2019t want to, but knows it will keep her alive. He has some very unkind thoughts about how she\u2019ll probably start dating Flash to get revenge on him, and then storms out like he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPeter Parker no more!\u201d Only took 79 issues to get from 1961 to 1994! Elsewhere, Kingpin\u2019s right-hand man wakes him up to tell him Silvermane is dead. Kingpin wants to know exactly what anyone knows about it, which is nothing so far, no one\u2019s taken credit. He says to summon Elektra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now we\u2019re getting to a very Frank Miller kind of Kingpin. Just in case the very dated Tivo reference earlier wasn\u2019t enough\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hammerhead says that really hurts, pulls the bullet out of his head, and wonders why his new goons, the Enforcers, haven\u2019t shot that guy yet. So Fancy Dan does. Hammerhead says anyone who stays with him will be taken care of, and anyone who doesn\u2019t should leave town and never come back. Many leave. Hammerhead is offended by how penny ante this operation is and shoots a bunch of stuff to blow it up\u2026 which gets the attention of a certain wallcrawler swinging around. He swings over to see if anyone\u2019s hurt, seeing a female shape up on a roof watching the fire, who promptly disappears\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Moon Knight, everybody! That\u2019s Ultimate versions of 3 characters in 1 issue, tho one of them didn\u2019t make it out. And it\u2019s only part one of a 7-part saga. This mob stuff is what Bendis excels at, so returning to the seedy underworld is a good idea after all the floundering around the last 10 issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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