“This one definitely brings Spider-Man into the more complete Ultimate Universe. We’ve got some team-up characters going here. Cloak and Dagger are kinda interesting, but they didn’t have a lot to do. Jessica Drew, Spider-Agent of SHIELD was fine, but how many clubs do you have to be in? Clone club, Spidey Club, SHIELD Club. Then there was ‘Splosion Lady or whatever she was called. She did ‘Splosions.
Of course, a team-up of heroes means we also had a bad guy team-up. You got your blonde lady who can fly or something, you’ve got Douche Sinister, who looks like Mister Sinister’s a-hole son, some old guy who could Hulk out like that old man in that video game…you know, the one they had at Pizza Hut. What system was that game on? Pizza Hut.
[10 minutes of Googling…]
FATAL FURY!
Anyway, a bunch of stuff happened, but not a lot of it felt super significant. This book felt to me like a transition between the series’ start and a new direction, which was cool, but overall didn’t give me a ton of goings on in this volume. But we DID at least get some Spider-Man being Spider-Man, which seemed like a win to me.”