Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #3Look at that cover! It's the Amazing Spider-Butt!
The story of how Miles Morales becomes the new Spider-Man continues. In the last issue, Miles texts his lego-enthusiast/fellow nerd, Ganke, and tells him about his newly discovered spider-powers. Ganke is sure that his buddy is destined to be the next Spider-Man and is totally geeking out. Miles isn't so excited. They go for a walk to discuss the situation and come across an apartment fire where people are screaming for help out of the upper windows. With Ganke pushing him on, Miles walks up to help. The firefighters tell him to get lost, so in the coolest scene of the issue, he takes off his shoes and leaps over the firefighters and sticks to the wall. He crawls up to the screaming lady and pulls her out the window. She freaks out and pushes away and ends up falling, but luckily the firefighters have a giant air pillow/trampoline thing waiting below. Then Miles jumps into the building and emerges with a little girl in his arms. The firefighters start congratulating him, but he quickly runs away to throw up in a nearby alley. One of the firefighters says, "I told you Spider-Man was black!" Ganke follows Miles into the alley and Miles is adamant that he does NOT want these powers and he does NOT want to be a hero!
Next we see the boys settling into their new charter school. It's a dorm-type live-in school and Ganke is Miles' roommate. Things are going well when they get called into the gym for an emergency situation. There's a superhero war going on nearby, so they are taking precautions. When asked for details one of the teachers says she heard that Spider-Man has been shot! (This is all happening to Miles before Peter Parker died.)
My Take: This was another really strong character-building issue. It wasn't terribly exciting, but I think they're doing this right getting us to care about these kids before introducing the costume or the villains or any of the extra stuff. I want to give this book 5 stars, but it just wasn't exciting enough. It was good, but not exciting. I'm about ready for Miles to bust out the suit!
- Book of the Week!
Ultimate Comics X-Men #2In the first issue of this relaunch we saw the remnants of the X-Men scrounging around in hiding as the US government hunts down mutants in the aftermath of a devastating attack on mankind by Magneto. In this issue, Kitty, Iceman, and the Human Torch (who now insists he's kind of a mutant as well) leap into action to save Rogue from 3 Nimrod-class (stupid name, i know) sentinels. They can't seem to hurt these robots, but they do manage to save Rogue and get away. On a nearby rooftop Rogue tells them that God told her to come out in the open like that so she would get attacked and that Kitty would come save her.
Jean Grey is going around gather young mutants for the cause, but is only referenced in this issue by William Stryker's son, who is hunting down mutants for the government. It is strongly hinted that God or someone he is sending, is going to show up and shake things up very soon.
My take: This was not a very compelling issue for me. The coolest moments involved the fight seen between the Torch and the Nimrods. I keep hanging on to this title to see how the new X-men team will shape up and what direction it will go in, but without my favorite characters, I'm losing interest fast. I have high hopes for Wolverine's son, James, but he has done jack squat so far. I may go ahead and drop this book and just read about what happens online. Comics are too expensive to buy books that don't WOW me.
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