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Ultimate Spiderman Vol. 30: La Muerte De Spiderman (2014)

by Brian Michael Bendis(Favorite Author)

4.19 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Panini Comics España (Marvel Comics)

series

Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, Volume I

review 1: I picked this one up after reading Mark Millar's Ultimate Avengers / Avengers vs. Ultimates were Spidey (as a teenager) suddenly showes up, picking up a bullet The Punisher aimed at Captain America. Since I didn't read previous issues of the Ultimate Spider-man some story-lines are a bit unclear (who's Gwen, why are the Human Torch and Ice-man living with Aunt May), but overall it's a really great comic. Norman Osborn is devastating as some demon-Green Goblin. The battles are fierce, some characters actually die (something the 'traditional' Marvel comics lack, heroes and villans beat each other up and a few minutes later they appear as new). It's a "David versus Goliath"-script, and David/Spidey even injured makes you feel with the character.
review 2: Some... morewhere in the giant Atari game of life, someone at Marvel must have won the unlimited life coin and they sure as hell use it a lot. A small glimpse at the death list includes Captain Marvel, Nightcrawler, Professor X, Bucky, Spider-man, Kraven, Johnny Storm, Punisher, Magneto, Phoenix, Captain America -- these are heavy hitters in the Marvel Universe, not some third-rate flunky villain that no one will miss (but whose death can mean a good story). In the past twenty years Marvel has diminished the believability and credibility of the stories with all of these violent deaths and in some cases needless resurrections (has Captain Marvel been worth a damn as a character since he's been back from some sort of time bubble that popped before he died? If not, leave him be.). There are several things at play here; First there is the notion of the corporate intellectual property that does not die. Then, there are writers who are tasked with being creative enough to bring a character from the dead, be it with a cosmic cube or whatever. Finally, there is the ugh factor. The ugh factor is that audible exhale you let out when you discover that another one came back to life. The ugh factor is proportionate to the believability of the creativity used by the writer. The writers generally use only just enough creativity to bring the character back to life, but they should strive to make a meaningful story in which the character NEEDS to be resurrected, or hates the idea of it, or is so drastically changed by it that he can't live with himself anymore and becomes a transformed character to the point of being almost unrecognizable. These would be good stories, and of course to carry some emotional punch they should occur much more infrequently. Sadly, most characters just kinda' shake it off and then they go back to punching someone in brightly colored underwear.Also, to the casual comic reader (guys who might pick up a couple comics a year), it's not even clear if this was regular Spiderman (the one who was cloned and replaced for years, don't get me started), or the Spiderman version who exists in a different (Ultimate)dimension (as a long time comics reader even I get confused even though it's right there in the title). Sometimes when one character in the Marvel universe dies they even bring in his doppelganger from the Ultimate universe as they did with Nightcrawler. Apparently unique characters like Nightcrawler are like Barbie dolls on a shelf at Walmart -- if you lose one just go grab another. It's kinda' distressing because you want the books to be better, to be more mature, to be more realistic. And so the waving of the flavor-of-the-week magic wand to undo death itself...hell, we're talking Batmite-quality thinking here. Let's say you were a reader of comics who genuinely felt something for and enjoyed the stories relaying the deaths of Captain Marvel or Nightcrawler. Don't you think those readers feel cheated a few years later when those same characters are flying around the same as before? I know in many ways I do. So why keep doing this? I don't think the very minor spike in sales is worth the frustration and fan backlash (think Cap). Comics are not video games in which you go through three lives of the same character in an hour. Dead should, in almost all cases, mean dead -- even in a comic universe. So I'm not on board with these Death Of books anymore. They had their run similar to the Marvel Zombie books. less

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