Ultimate Spider-Man, Vol. 1: Power and Responsibility - Brian Michael Bendis & Mark Bagley

Ultimate Spider-Man, Vol. 1: Power and Responsibility

By Brian Michael Bendis & Mark Bagley

  • Release Date: 2011-09-16
  • Genre: Graphic Novels
Score: 4.5
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Description

"With great power comes great responsibility." High school, puberty, first dances - there are many pitfalls to being young. Compound these with intense personal tragedy and superhuman powers, and you can start to visualize the world of Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man. Following the murder of his uncle and the Green Goblin's assault on his high school, Peter finds himself on the brink of manhood. Collects Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) #1-7.

Reviews

  • USM vol 1

    5
    By The New Blood
    This is the comic series that got me into comics! I will read this again and again!

  • Great comic

    5
    By Emmanuel Lodu
    This comic is Ultimate! I a fan of The Ultimate series great comic book series

  • Ultimate!!

    5
    By RAXM
    Pleeeeeease let us see more issues!!

  • Spidey for the next gen

    4
    By Cassiel007
    It's a very nice comic with a good story line. The art looks great on the new iPad and works well in iBooks.

  • The Greatest Comic Ever

    5
    By Luke Kiley
    Ultimate Spider-man is good. GOOD. the story starts from the begining of Parker's life in a brand new interpretation, kickstarting the career of Marvel's 'the new Stan' Brian Michael Bendis. The art is outstanding. Bagely captures the color, the emotion, the feeling of the ultimate Spider-man. Bagley's art style is colorful, yet realistic and eccentric. As outstanding as the art is, it's worth noting that Bagely stays artist till the end of vol. 18. For anyone who get's this and falls in love with the series(you will) Bagely's departure, in my opinion, is sad, considering that the art becomes landmark. It's also worth noting that the series lasts 22 volumes than ends in what looks like the end for good. However Marvel restarts the Ultimate line-up and brings on Ultimate Comics Spider-man. This starts where the series leaves off and ends at only three volumes. THEN there is a reboot with a brand new Spider-man, Mile Morales. Back to the item you are deciding on purchasing or not, the writing is the best I have ever seen in ANY comic ever. Brian Michael Bendis is basically the protege of Lee with his outstanding wrting, vast amount of books, amount of awards, and he writes the new Marvel event Avengers v. X-men. This is supposed to be the biggest event in marvel history, so you can see how Bendis must score. The stories' show off remade, new, reboots of all of Spidey's enemies. In fact vol.4's return of Goblin is what many of the Spider-man 2002 film's events were based on. However the writing in the dialogue is the drive. Comic books (aside from some of the older ones) have always had a natural, realistic dialogue. Now you can see they haven't. Movies are similar and the bottom line is that this is relistic, real-world speach. You may think it's odd how I praise the talking in a comic book but you can see this read out in short, choppy sentences, grammerical oddities and more things like that. But it is intentional. Aside from all this jabber the stories rock, the realism is excellent, the art is beautiful, and the Ultimate Spider-man is the ultimate comic.

  • Good work, but overpriced.

    3
    By Matthew A. Hale
    Great comics, but $13 is pretty steep for 7 collected issues.

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