Get It Now Ultimate Spider-Man Omnibus, Vol. 1 Developed By Brian Michael Bendis Available Through Digital Edition

haven't read this in years, but when I was younger and received it as a gift one year I absolutely devoured it, I've read it multiple times and I love it, It is a reimagining of the old SpiderMan comics which I haven't read and it is just so much fun, Peter is great, he's determined, witty, hilarious, and he gets the job done when he needs to, ing this is making me want to retrieve it from its dusty resting place at my parents house, I had several of the volumes that followed these six as well and remember loving those as well, It is a series that I want to finish some day, Taken as a whole this a superb run, not least because of its sheer length, Clocking in at aroundissues, it's difficult for anything to keep up anything approaching such a high level of quality, The other Ultimate tentpoles are good in most places: Fantastic Four, XMen, even Ultimates to some extent, and they all have at least one thing in their armoury which Spiderman doesn't: numbers.
Here, it's pretty much just Spidey as a constant lead, which simply makes his continued appeal with apologies to Xavier's school astonishing,

So, during the course of this you get a speedy origin story, Peter Parker's closely protected home life, a rolling array of villains major and minor, and a gradual and credible interweaving of other Marvel stalwarts.
There are a few things however which elevate this above perhaps any of its stablemates,

First, Parker's enemies are pretty much all products of his own life with the exception of Vibro, who hilarious pops up every so often only to be slapped down effortlessly.
They overlap with his history, his family's history, and his own mistakes and triumphs, This grounds the comic book unreality, and instantly open the door to powerful allegories, What comes back to haunt him, whether deserved or not, resounds in his personal life as well as the pugilism of the heroics, Some of it is absurd the Sinister Six don't exceed the sum of their parts, and by the end I'd even had it up to here with Otto Bloody Octavius and his Fucking Metal Arms That Won't Die.


Second, he is a smart kid, The story doesn't shy away from the fact that Parker cherishes his not quite geniuslevel intellect even though on the surface his powers are basically superathleticism, And with the smart comes the tragedy of the Spiderman: the recognition of a responsibility to do what you can with the powers available to you, If only there were a snappy aphorism to convey that,

Third, the lines spark with zing and sass,

beyond any top bantz which Johnny Storm and the Thing can produce with the possible exception of "Dude, you fantastisuck.
. . " The supporting characters feel real, and the writers capture the speedy if not entirely profound wit of the highschooler,

Fourth, its about youth, and the painful desire to cling to innocence as well as an urge to develop maturity, There are plenty of sexy bodies on display, some absurd and sexist along the way, but perhaps I can't say balanced by a fair share of opportunity to ogle the Spiderman physique.
The girls in his life are minor roles, but then again so are the boys, and at least the girls fight their own good fights,

Fifth, his internal monologues save pretty much any story, by turns undercutting the ridiculousness and pomposity of villains, breathing life into exposition, and just riffing off whatever came into the writer's head.


Sixth, the Marvel heavyweights who crop up Fury, mutants, Fantastic Four, Ultimates do so pretty much always in service of Spiderman's storyline, and while it feels like a definite power up when they share the action, they work alongside him to varying extents in a way that never feels crowbarred in.


It's a long read, and best taken at a run, but it's never les than fun, warmhearted and willing to treat its youthful leads seriously, So this was terrible. I was expecting something really different to this, I'm pretty sure I absolutely detest the ultimate universe, this confirms it, The old Stan lee stories were ten times better than this,

Here are the reasons I hated it
It's just a retelling of all the classic Spiderman stories with a twist,
. The artwork is terrible The artwork is terrible so bad it's on here twice to the point that they draw Peter Parker posing like a girl in his pants wtf!

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There is only one comic I've read recently with worse artwork and that was Rick Remenders uncanny avengers!
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The changes they made to the characters are worse! Why make Kraven a TV star

I'm angry I bought this, I'm putting this on eBay Asap!

Sorry to everyone who liked this, I really really really wanted to like it, but it just comes across with so little effort put into it.


I will continue to avoid the ultimate marvel universe like the plague, The only thing worse than this is Ultimate XMen and if you like that there's something wrong with you,

The end. This omnibus is really good, Great story arcs, phenomenal writing, and awesome art from start to finish,
This story essentially recreates spiderman withinst century America, Bendis puts parker in somewhat more believable settings and circumstances for ayear old high school kid, The characters throughout have their own unique persona and traits which makes things really work well in this run, My only gripe is that there is not another continuing omnibus to complement this one, Ultimately though, Bendis has created something really special here, Ultimate SpiderMan Omnibus Vol.!!! I know, I know, I'm late to the news, Frankly, I'm not really much of a fan of Peter Parker/SpiderMan, Looking at my collection, I have more books on Venom, Carnage, SpiderMan Octavius, heck, I even haveSpiderMan Ben Reillythough unfortunately, I have yet to encounter a good collection of SpiderMan.
Anyway, I've been hearing such great reviews about Ultimate Spidey, and I found an Omnibus edition on sale some weeks back, so here we go! Being part of the Marvel Ultimate timeline, this is an updated retelling of Parker's story.
The Peter here is ayearold nerd high school student, already best friends with MJ, and working as a IT/Techsupport for the Daily Bugle, We also get revamped origin stories for his menagerie of villains! Venom is a synthesized genetic suit, Kraven is a reality TV celebrity a la Steve Irwin, and Doc Oct and Green Goblin were results in the same accident when they were trying to replicate Spidey's case on Norman Osborn.
It all feels like a fun comingofage story for Peter, with a different perspective than what we were used to, You see him dealing with high school romance, living with Gwen Stacy who's a punk girl, with daddy issues, getting a job to support Aunt May, or even just simply having problems escaping school to go save the day.
Reading this series feels like reading an old favorite, yet finding something new with each page, It has good pacing that would have you continuously engaged or interested, But boy, Peter really doesn't get a break in this one, It's one event after another with him,

Ooohhh Didn't know that this started the whole Ultimates series, Wonder if/when thend volume will come out NOSTALGIA !!! Just pure NOSTALGIA ! This run still holds up, From Bendis awesome writing to Bagleys dope artwork ! The writing truly flows really well, . and Bendis truly captured the essence of Spider Man in this story, So many relatable topics that Stan Lee started with his run, This book is just inspiring to see the struggles of a teenager, there were moments in some of these stories that made me wanna tear up cause I felt what was happening emotionally.
Reading this as an adult hits differently than reading this when I was a kid, Just wow, cant wait for VOL! To me, this is one of the definitive runs of SpiderMan, This book gives the reader a fully fleshed out, multiissued origin story leading up to Uncle Bens death that makes you fall in love with the character before he becomes the wallcrawler.
The dynamic between Peter and his friends is also an amazing highlight here, not only do they force him to grow, but they also ground him to his teenage reality in the ways we come to expect in SpiderMan stories.
However, here, the relationships felt so much more natural and the issues the characters faced within their personal lives felt much more realistic than some other comics, Maybe thats because I was raised in thes, which is time setting of this run, and its helped connect me to the story more, but for some reason this story just feels more grounded in reality thanSpiderMan to me.
The dialogue is amazing and not corny and over the top, the art is beautiful, and there is a significant amount of content where one can see how Peter changes from this once timid, nerdy teenage boy, to a more cocky and risky young man looking to live up to the lesson Uncle Ben taught him.
This is an amazing jumping on point for anyone looking to start reading SpiderMan comics, in fact, its probably the best jumping on point, Id recommend this book to everyone,/for me! In, Marvel launched the Ultimate Universe, reinventing SpiderMan for a new generation and a new millennium, Now, the first three years of Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley's fanfavorite, awardwinning take on the webslinger are collected in one oversized volume! Relive Peter Parker's early days as SpiderMan, learning to fight crime by trial and error as he struggles to balance his new life with the demands of high school: puberty, homework and dating! Even with the help of his best friend and confidante, Mary Jane Watson, Peter has a heavy load to bear.
But the neophyte SpiderMan is making many enemies, including the Green Goblin, the Kingpin of Crime, Doctor Octopus, Kraven the Hunter and the maniacal Venom, . . and unless he can rise to the occasion, he may not survive until prom!

Collecting: Ultimate SpiderMan, ½ Perfect for bingereading, this run, First read.

This was a great recast of SpiderMan as a yearteenager, Loved the way some of the familiar story beats were reframed, I know it isn't really fair to compare, but this retelling allowed them to improve on the original run on many levels, The storytelling is more condensed and more focused than Lee's original run, Highlights: Peter meeting Fury, the Kingpin, the battle with the Green Goblin seen from the goblin's perspective trippy!, Venom.

Bagley's art grew on me, His faces, especially females, are too cartoony, but he's absolutely brilliant in other areas, His SpiderMan: perfection. None of this should have worked, But it all does, brilliantly, Power amp Responsibility. Bendis' initial arc for USM is pretty much the short story from AF, spread out overissues, Sadly, it shows, because the story drags, With that said, this is a great modernization of the story, Nicely dovetailing the origin, the Osbournes, and even Doc Ock, and also giving some good modernizations to Peter, his guardians, and his school, If it'd just been kept toorissues, it would have been excellent/,

Learning Curve, Bendis really take USM to the next level with his second arc, and that's likely in part because the training wheels come off: we no longer know what's going to happen.
But we also really get Bendis at his best, mixing together Peter and a crime narrative, The brutal reality of Ultimate Peter's life as SpiderMan is terrific, and so is his quest to take down the Kingpin, Meanwhile, we get improving characterization of supporting cast as Peter joins the Bugle, and then a terrific entire issue focusing on Peter and Mary/,

Double Trouble, It's like the inevitable second or third superhero movie, where the producer suddenly decides that we need two villains to remain interested, So we get Doc Ock and Kraven: double trouble, And they're great. Not only does Doc Ock nicely tie into Peter's origin, but he's also scary as heck, Meanwhile, Kraven turns out to be hilarious, Alongside all of this, we're getting a real arc in the overall storytelling, Almost two years in, and Peter's slowly becoming a hero,/.

Legacy. Much like Doc Ock, this new Green Goblin is terrifying, This is also a story that's entirely heartbreaking, with both Mary and Harry dramatically in the line of fire, The integration with SHIELD is fun too, really creating an Ultimate universe that's larger than just Peter, Overall, a wonderful arc, even if a lot of our supporting cast at both the school and the Bugle has gone missing/,

Public Scrutiny, The story of a counterfeit SpiderMan would be interesting on its own, even if it feels like a big of a backslide from the triumph of the previous volume.
Parker Luck! But the way that intersects with Gwen's story raises it all up to the next level and results in an enthralling storyline, especially as we see its repercussions on Peter's life.
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Venom. Moving past Osborne and Ock it's intriguing to have another major SpiderMan story element that's also being related back to Peter's own history, This time it's Eddie Brock and Venom, who have relations to Peter's lost parents, Great setup, great followthrough, and some more interesting character moments, Unfortunately, the arc is brought down somewhat by some boring fights with the Venom suit and then with Venom himself: fights that just don't have much depth to them/.
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