Sunday, September 3, 2023

Ultimate Fallout by Bendis/Hickman Annotated


[Spider-Man No More]

Ultimate Fallout #1 - "Spider-Man RIP"
  • Mourning!
  • Grief!
  • Sadness!
  • Funeral where the whole city attends. Tony takes Aunt May and Gwen.
  • May meets the little girl Peter saved from a fire. They hug.
  • When they enter the cathedral, Steve Rodgers extends his condolences to the girls, while admitting that he is the one who caused Peter's death.
Ultimate Fallout #2 - "How The World Killed Spider-Man"
  • Steve confesses to May his error in rejecting Peter as well as the fact that the bullet that hit him was meant for Cap.
  • May slaps him an breaks down outside the church.
  • Jameson helps her up, and they go back into the ceremony.
  • The Thor segment was wonderful. I loved Hickman's Thor mini, and this seems like a spiritual sequel to that Ultimates prequel.
  • Thor has a vision during the ceremony, claiming that Asgard will one day return with Odin, and that within Valhalla are the warriors who gave their lives for the greater good.
  • We see Peter, Janet, Hank, Scott, and Wolverine feasting in the halls of Valhalla.
  • Very touching.
  • The Rogue stuff, I did not care for.
  • Mary Jane types up an article: How the World killed Spider-Man.
Ultimate Fallout #3 - "Moving Forward"
  • Tony recalls meeting with a dude named Jonathan Blackhaven at his brother's funeral.
  • He is invited to Blackhaven's home in Zurich where he meets a group his brother was part of: The Kratos Club.
  • Members include Valentina Allegra, discount winklevoss twins named Miroslav and Dieter Buchwald, Ming Xiang, and a 21-year-old billionaire named Damon Dunn.
  • They want to play new world order and control the world. Tony thinks on it.
  • Kitty Pride is pissed and angry at the world for its perceived hypocrisy.
  • She finds Bobby Drake and Johnny Storm, inviting them to a supposed safe haven where they can escape the government if they don't use their powers...
  • Jean Grey/Karen Grant pacifies Bruce Banner in his Hulk state, winning the favor of Nick Fury, who allows her and her friends protection if she can continue pacifying the Hulk.
Ultimate Fallout #4 - "New Kids on the Block"
  • A new spider-man is on the scene, taking out some punk dreg named Kangaroo.
  • Is this the first appearance of Miles Morales!?!?!
  • The Reed sequence was fantastic.
  • Your boy makes it out of the Negative Zone. Nice enough recap of Ultimate Enemy. Don't care at all to read that.
  • He builds something called the Dome, enlisting a group of people called the Children of Tomorrow for his experiment of survival of the fittest...
  • The Veronica Cooper stuff was absolute cheeks. I guess the world is about to find out the US gov created mutants. Don't care.
Ultimate Fallout #5 - "The Art of the Deal"
  • Worst issue so far.
  • Don't give a crap about Pietro's machinations. He wants to sell mutants as slaves.
  • Fury is under the gun.
  • War between Uruguay and Argentina.
  • Asgard descends over the United Kingdom. The EUSS reactivates, prepping Captain Britain soldiers commanded by Jamie Braddock.
  • The SEAR group is making meta-humans as well. No idea what they are about, but Fury sends Hawkeye to figure it out.
  • Fury meets with Jasper Sitwell from the White House. They cut Fury's budget by 30%. He's pissed. Everyone's screwed.
  • Pietro bangs Devon, but she turns into Scarlet Witch. Wanda tells him to go to Egypt.
  • He was imagining it all! Or was he...
Ultimate Fallout #6 - "The Blame"
  • May and Gwen take up Tony's offer, and decide to move to France.
  • Kitty, Bobby, and Johnny move into the Morlock tunnels.
  • Captain America quits, leaving his shield in the Triskelion with Nick Fury.
  • Nick Fury visits Mary Jane. She's finished her manuscript for how the world killed Spider-Man.
  • He reveals that he knew Peter's parents, and that he loved him. He tells Mary Jane that she's right to blame him. Nerds cry.

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