Product Description: The Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, the Sandman, Electro and Kraven the Hunter are being held together in a S.H.I.E.L.D. containment centre. But not for long... Ages 13+
It Should Be Treated Separately, but You MUST READ IT! The Ultimate Six is somewhat of a sideplot, even though it is a hugely epic story. As one reviewer stated before, it doesn't follow the traditional ultimate spider-man storytelling that we're all accustomed to, but it still held me by the eyes and wouldn't let me go till I finished.
Whew I had to take a step back after reading this. We've got the Avengers and the Ultimate Six....or Five...you'll see. It's kind of like a huge chocolate cake. You don't wanna be given it all the time, but that rare time when you receive it, you wanna eat the WHOLE thing. My only concern with the book was the drawings of Peter. I saw one drawing where he literally looked cross-eyed. Hopefully I'll get my illustrator back in the next book.
I hope you're prepared to set aside some time in your busy life. Once you pick it up it will not fall back down until you've finished every last page. Yea, at least to me, ITS THAT GOOD!
Spidey Fights Kingpin But the nice treat here is Spidey meets Black Cat and the super tough villain, Elektra. Black Cat is really playful and is a great character to keep Spidey occupied since he broke up with MJ.
Ultimate Six is the best Ultimate Spiderman story Yes, that title either raises your expectations for the book, or it announces the writer of the review is a teen-aged fanboy.
I'm not a teen-aged fanboy.
The SINISTER six has long been a staple of the Spiderman comic books; I think that as soon as Stan Lee had Peter Parker fight six foes, he decided to put the all the BAD guys together in a team against poor old Spidey.
Spidey, of course, always won the day, time after time. Against six bad guys.
Another century, another comic book. Marvel created the "Ultimate" line relaunching its flagship heroes for the twenty-first century, with a greater emphasis on what we consider "realism" today.
In this case, Brian Bendis, who wrote the first hundred issues or so of Ultimate Spiderman, hits a clear home run into the upper decks.
How would a half-dozen of Peter Parker's nastiest foes act when they got together? What would the vengeful Green Goblin (who knows Peter Parker is Spidey) want of Spiderman?
How would teen-aged Spiderman react?
What would the authorities (Nick Fury, Shield, and the Ultimates) be doing about all this?
There are other Ultimate Spiderman tales that pull at the heartstrings more, beloved characters meeting bitter ends, more-cleverly-plotted tales in Bendis's run, but this one really seems logical and plausible: given A, then B, then C must follow.
Who is the sixth member of the Ultimate "Sinister Six"? Brilliant.
Graphic SF Reader Nick Fury has the Green Goblin, Kraven the Hunter, Electron, the Sandman, and Doctor Octopus locked up so he can study them, and have Henry Pym try and work out how they can do something useful with them.
Very bad idea.
This is really an Ultimates book, with Spider-Man guest starring.
Neither the President or Captain America is very happy with what is going on after much destruction and death.
What happened to the action and the drawings? I am a huge fan of Spider-Man of all the series. I wanted to read this book 'cause it looked cool. I was very disapointed. The drawings were horrible. They all looked like a 14 drew them. Second all there basically was, was talk. No action except at the very beginning and end. If you don't read this book you are not missing much.
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