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A review by roxanamalinachirila
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Volume 5 by Brian Michael Bendis
4.0
Behold! This is the end of the series! The Ultimate Comics Spider-Man with Miles Morales has ended - although, between us, you should know it started somewhere else again and I'll have to dive deep into the Marvel black hole to figure out where.
Charts would be useful, but also confusing. There is a continuity to this. But where? How? Who knows. It's called "The Marvel Universe" because you marvel at it and not one hundred researchers can really tell you how it fits together.
Anyway. Good ending.
After his mother's death, Miles Morales swore off being Spider-Man so that people he loves no longer end up as collateral victims in the fight against evil. Except that's probably not the right choice.
(It's mentioned that Captain America is still President of the United States in this one, and I'll be damned if I understand why.)
When he's with his dad at a Chinese restaurant where Gwen Stacy is being a waitress, a battle ensues between three superpowered people just outside: the duo Cloak and Dagger and the exploding and thus appropriately-named Bombshell.
After Miles is running away like a common person and Gwen gets pissed off at him for good reason, it turns out all the superpowered people mentioned above are there because of eeeevil experiments done on them by an eeeeevil dude in charge of an eeeevil corporation. So Spider-Man, Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) and the other three go off to face all the eeeevil dude and his clique of evil science. They win.
Not bad. Not overly good, but my star rating is based on what it's not as well as on what it is: it's not a crossover event where you have no idea what you're doing; it's not the endless dreary misery of the initial run of Spider-Gwen; it's not confusing as heck. It's decent storytelling. Points for that.
Charts would be useful, but also confusing. There is a continuity to this. But where? How? Who knows. It's called "The Marvel Universe" because you marvel at it and not one hundred researchers can really tell you how it fits together.
Anyway. Good ending.
After his mother's death, Miles Morales swore off being Spider-Man so that people he loves no longer end up as collateral victims in the fight against evil. Except that's probably not the right choice.
(It's mentioned that Captain America is still President of the United States in this one, and I'll be damned if I understand why.)
When he's with his dad at a Chinese restaurant where Gwen Stacy is being a waitress, a battle ensues between three superpowered people just outside: the duo Cloak and Dagger and the exploding and thus appropriately-named Bombshell.
After Miles is running away like a common person and Gwen gets pissed off at him for good reason, it turns out all the superpowered people mentioned above are there because of eeeevil experiments done on them by an eeeeevil dude in charge of an eeeevil corporation. So Spider-Man, Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) and the other three go off to face all the eeeevil dude and his clique of evil science. They win.
Not bad. Not overly good, but my star rating is based on what it's not as well as on what it is: it's not a crossover event where you have no idea what you're doing; it's not the endless dreary misery of the initial run of Spider-Gwen; it's not confusing as heck. It's decent storytelling. Points for that.