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xk8linx19's review
5.0
Cool, thanks for making me cry again, Spider-Man. Glad we have this constant in our seventeen-year relationship.
librarianelizabeth's review
3.0
3.5 stars
I can't tell if I'm reading these collected editions in the right sequence as a narrative, and that bugs me. Seeing some characters I've heard about from other Marvel comic story lines makes me curious about them, too.
I can't tell if I'm reading these collected editions in the right sequence as a narrative, and that bugs me. Seeing some characters I've heard about from other Marvel comic story lines makes me curious about them, too.
brin's review
4.0
More like 4.5 stars, really. But a smidge closer to 4...
So I LOVED the first volume of Ultimate Spider-Man. Miles had my heart instantly, both the first time I read it way back and more recently. I still do think Miles is a fantastic character and such a more poignant Spider-Man in today’s society given how often Spidey’s role finds him ostracised by the very people he’s trying to help.
The reason I don’t like volume two as much is that it feels less like Miles’ story, and more like Miles’ part in other people’s story. A more hardcore fan of Marvel might enjoy that and I presume it all plays in to some bigger story in the Marvel Universe and, in all fairness, the narrative did offer a lot of context as to who these other characters were but for someone who’s relatively new to marvel comics there were plenty of points I felt like I wasn’t the target audience any more. To be fair, maybe I’m not!
All in all - I enjoyed it, would have preferred if the other characters were supporting roles in Miles’ story rather than him be the supporting role in theirs.
So I LOVED the first volume of Ultimate Spider-Man. Miles had my heart instantly, both the first time I read it way back and more recently. I still do think Miles is a fantastic character and such a more poignant Spider-Man in today’s society given how often Spidey’s role finds him ostracised by the very people he’s trying to help.
The reason I don’t like volume two as much is that it feels less like Miles’ story, and more like Miles’ part in other people’s story. A more hardcore fan of Marvel might enjoy that and I presume it all plays in to some bigger story in the Marvel Universe and, in all fairness, the narrative did offer a lot of context as to who these other characters were but for someone who’s relatively new to marvel comics there were plenty of points I felt like I wasn’t the target audience any more. To be fair, maybe I’m not!
All in all - I enjoyed it, would have preferred if the other characters were supporting roles in Miles’ story rather than him be the supporting role in theirs.
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