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The original, turn-of-the-millennium Ultimate Spider-Man was known for its stress-free pacing. An early famous example of this style had Peter Parker using his newborn spider senses to evade cars in multiple panels, devoting an entire page to doing so.
The same can’t be said about the “new” Ultimate Spider-Man (at least the new one released in 2024). There’s a ton of content in this second issue (just like the first), with Peter testing out his newly acquired abilities, appearances by the Green Goblin and Shocker, and even more time spent with Ben Parker, JJ Jameson, and the Parker kids.
It’s a credit to Jonathan Hickman that despite how much is going on here, it never feels like too much, and nearly every thread introduced and continued here is equally compelling. Peter Parker plays a middle-aged husband and father as Spider-Man for the first time, and while this character alone is refreshing, there are plenty of other elements that take Spidey’s regular cast in interesting new directions.
It feels like there are multiple cliffhangers here as well, leaving some really important threads tantalizingly open by the issue’s climax. I’m not the biggest fan of Hickman’s usually overly complicated plots, but he seems to have a great balance of juggling a lot of events here, and having his screenplay drawn by Marco Checchetto certainly doesn’t hurt, his artwork is simply stunning.
It took me a long time to give this ultimate incarnation of Spider-Man a chance, but I’m glad I did.
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