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Spider-Men # 1

 By Mark Rodriguez

Back before all the Spider-Verse and MCU Multiverse stuff, we had the regular Marvel Universe and the Ultimate Universe. The Ultimate Universe was meant to be a modern re-telling of the Marvel Universe for new readers that didn't want to be bogged down by decades of continuity. In the Ultimate Universe, Peter Parker was Spider-Man for a few years until he tragically died. After this, Miles Morales took over as the new Spider-Man. While currently Miles exists in the 616 universe alongside Peter, this was the first time the two got to meet.

Spider-Men # 1 starts off with Spider-Man (Peter Parker) swinging around the city at night, monologing about awesome New York City is. He stops a couple of car thieves, and as usual, the cops try to arrest him.

Pete sees a strange purple light coming out from an abandoned warehouse and decided to check it out. He finds this strange energy spiral which seems to show another world coming from sort of device from the ground. Spidey doesn’t know what to make of it and looks around.


As he does, he finds some familiar technology and a fishbowl helmet. He recognizes it as part of Mysterio’s costume, and sure enough the villain appears to attack him. Spider-Man pins him down while Mysterio seems very surprised to see him for some reason.

The fight continues and Spider-man whips out a classic Scorpion attack. He shoots a web at him, yanks him towards him and punches him hard. 


 Mysterio claims Spidey doesn’t know what he’s dealing with. He also says he ‘missed seeing Spider-Man die the first time, but he won’t this time’.  Spider-Man thinks he’s crazy and tells him that whatever the weird glowing thing is, he can call up Tony Stark or Reed Richards to shut it down. As Spider-Man is distracted, Mysterio grabs his gun and tries to shoot Spider-Man. He misses and hits the glowing device instead. The purple energy becomes some sort of spiral vortex and sucks Spider-Man inside.

Spider-Man now finds himself outside and in the day time, when it was night time before. He notices that he’s not in the same New York he was before and figures it was one of Mysterio’s illusions or tricks. However, the villain never laid a hand on him, so he realizes it was the purple energy. He leaps back inside what he believes to be the warehouse from before and find it to be some woman’s apartment. The hero quickly swings back out and tries to find out what’s going on. Before he can however, he finds some punks about to beat up in a guy. Spider-Man quickly leaps in and saves the day. 

Spider-Man asks if the guy is OK. The guy thanks him but says wearing that costume is in terrible taste. Spider-Man is confused. The man says he appreciates the help and the city needs more heroes, but he should get his own costume, and not use the one Peter Parker used to wear. Our hero is confused and the man says ‘’you’re gonna tell me you dressed like that and you don’t know who Peter Parker is?” This leaves Spider-Man confused as the man thanks him and leaves.

Slightly freaking out now, Spidey swings off eager to find answers now…. And a black blur speeds by him. Spider-Man is surprised to be suddenly face to face with… the Ultimate Spider-Man, Miles Morales!

My Thoughts-

I love this issue. I just loved it. It’s the perfect jumping point for anyone that has ever heard about Spider-Man and decided to actually pick up a comic. It has Peter doing his usual wisecracking crimefighting, a classic villain like Mysterio, and the ending cliffhanger is perfect. The art is also fantastic. I find a lot of these mini-series and specials always bring their A-Game when it comes to the art when compared to the monthly on-goings. 

Even though it would have interesting to see Peter meet Ultimate Peter, I just find it way more interesting and ten times more awesome for him to run into Miles instead. It would also be cool to see how he reacts to seeing an alternate version of the original. And there’s the fact that the Ultimate Marvel Universe knows Peter is dead, so when news of the ‘original Spider-Man is swinging around’ pops up, it’s also gonna be awesome. I am so pumped to see issue 2!!!

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