I just reheard this song on the radio the other day and it took me straight back to the 90s!
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There is also the DHT version
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Which I also like.
Story & Script Chris Claremont
Story, Art & Color Barry Windsor-Smith
Letterer Tom Orzechowski
Cover Dated May 1986
Kitty Pryde doesn’t appear in this issue, in fact, none of the X-Men do, besides Wolverine. Kitty is in the character corner box, on the cover – so that’s all I need to buy an issue.
When I reviewed Alpha Flight 33 –
I mention how this issue, Mile High Comics had this issue at various prices – $3, $4.80, $6, $9.60, $15 and $30. Pending on if it was Newsstand or Direct Market. I got it, for Father’s Day 2015, for $2.90, so that’s a pretty good deal.
I mentioned this issue, in that review, due to this, 205, being Lady Deathstrike’s next appearance, after Alpha Flight 33 & 34. Here, she gets a major upgrade from Spiral, as does the three Hellfire Club goons, that Wolverine tore into, way back in issue 133 of Uncanny X-Men.
Onto the issue – which could be summarized as “one big fight” but there is more to it. A lot of the heart of the issue comes from Katie Power (of Power Pack fame) being in the issue. Windsor-Smith’s artwork is intense and takes the issue to the next left.
The issue opens in Spiral’s Body Shop, as we witness the birth of Cyborg Lady Deathstrike. She is now a threat to Wolverine. The Post-Hellfire Club slash Pre-Reavers – Reese, Cole and Macon, have also become cyborgs. Lady Deathstrike has a deal with Spiral, that once she gets her revenge, Spiral will reverse the process and make Lady Deathstrike human again.
South Street Seaport, on the Lower East River Shore of Manhattan Island. Katie Power is on a school trip.
I do like how we join the Wolverine v Lady Deathstrike and Trio fight, clearly an hour into the action.
Macon is down, already, and Cole fires a laser cannon into the crowd. A blizzard is occurring and it is thick, adding to the chaos.
Katie gets separated from her class, and she runs into Wolverine. Not just regular Wolverine, but a badly beaten Wolverine. This guy is down to only his boots and briefs. Gone are his shirt, gloves and . . . his ability to to communicate! This starts to scare Kate, as Mr. Logan is super scary.
The villains keep firing on Wolverine, who goes from growling to speaking in Japanese. Katie knows that something is seriously wrong with Wolverine. For his part, Wolverine is trying to protect Katie. With a huge RAHRRRR, his English returns. As does his manners, as he thanks Katie for stalling along enough for his healing factor to kick in – both physically and mentally.
Wolverine gets to Cole and takes him out of action.
We finally get to the center piece – Wolverine v Lady Deathstrike!
There is an ad for New Universe, in 1961, the Marvel Universe began. Now 25 years later, there is The New Universe. Not as dramatic as the end of Secret Wars 2015’s first issue with the ending of two universes.
Wolverine tries to debate with Lady Deathstrike, about her choices. She tells him, that either she gets her revenge for her father and can start her life anew – or she dies and is free of the burden. Lady Deathstrike gave up her humanity, for this goal, something Wolverine wishes he could have back.
Wolverine tears into Lady Deathstrike, until she can’t get up again. He doesn’t kill her though.
Checklist – New Mutants 38, Power Pack 21, Vision and Scarlet Witch 7, Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe 5, Alpha Flight 33 (so this issue must have came out, right afterwards! – that is some tight continuity!), Uncanny X-Men 204, X-Factor 3 and Marvel Age 37.
Issue ends with Wolverine and Katie, walking away and holding hands. To be honest, the Katie pages, are probably my favorite.
Letters page has letters from – Kahtryn J. Routtliffe of Chicago, IL / Kate Payne of Salem, OR and Jeffrey L. Morris of Billings, Montana. Montana Represent, Yo!
Next issue caption states that Dan Green returns to the title, as he has been doing a painted Doctor Strange one shot, written by JM DeMatteis, which sounds pretty awesome. The story, itself, it is the X-Men’s last night in San Francisco. They meet Julia Carpenter, the second Spider-Woman and Freedom Force shows up. Freedom is a Four Letter Word!
Inside back cover ad is for Power Pack (getting top billing!) and the Amazing Spider-Man with some helpful tips on how to protect yourself from sexual abuse.
For the longest time, this was my favorite song of all time –
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One day in the summer of the early 90s, VHI’s Top 20 Countdown, had a section of top five duets and this was one of them. I simply adore this song. Don Henley is good on the track as well.
Patty Smyth’s entire self title album (her second, overall) is so good from start to finish.
Not sure what my favorite song is now, but as a default, I would stills ay its this one. Let’s keep it simple, ya’ll
Writer Brian Michael Bendis
Penciler Mark Bagley
Inker John Dell
Colorist Justin Ponsor
Letterer VC’s Cory Petit
Deadpool, Part One of Four
Cover Dated May 2006
After reading Ultimate Spider-Man 200, I wanted to reread some issues that I remembered.
This issue opens with Spider-Man being tied by . . . The Ringer!
The Ringer is straight up from Waldorf, Maryland. Which I love how much Spider-Man is thrown off by this bragging.
The Ringer calls Spider-Man a mutant (a running gag throughout this short arc, but I am only reviewing this first issue).
This very cool new brunette superhero is on the scene, and she wants the mutant race talk to cease.
The new hero is really Kitty Pryde, we’ll get to the why the new costume later in the issue. It is such a great reason. Kitty starts wailing on the Ringer.
I like how Kitty is so used to shutting fools down, that she’s surprised when it doesn’t work. While the guy is freaking out, she notices that Spider-Man is getting into an even tighter bind.
Is this the first time she phased him? I believe she phased her hand through his chest on their first date, but that was probably super quick, as she was only showing him her powerset.
I like how willingly Kitty shows her sexuality with her comment about how him not wearing a shirt is a real bonus for her. She’s enjoying this relationship with him.
I like how the Ringer is so second rate, that he is taken out by a basic webbing to a wall technique.
As the Ringer turns around, Kitty finally notices that he has a mechanic contraption on his back. Which I would assume she would have noticed earlier but he never does turn around in front of her. Plus, she’s use to mutants who don’t require any fancy gizmos so she might not have been looking either. By touching the contraption, there is a giant explosion.
That panel of Spider-Man with his gloves, when he is screaming “Kitty” – Spider-Man looks odd without his shirt, right? Reminds me of times when Batman rights with the cowl, but shirtless and capeless. It is a good look, but it is unusual to see.
I like how Kitty tries to shame Peter in not knowing how her power works. He doesn’t have to worry about her, as much. He wants some boyfriend concern points but her “technically” says it all.
The Ringer isn’t thrilled with this turn of events. Spider-Man works in putting his shirt on, he doesn’t need to be showing his goods.
How funny is Kitty, written by Bendis? Pretty darn! Gosh, I really did enjoy Peter and Kitty together, they have such great chemistry.
She tells him to look at the Ringer’s butt, and he rather he didn’t. She notices that the Ringer has his wallet on him. Who carries their wallet on them, and commit crimes? I recall stories of the Proper Marvel Universe Spider-Man wanting to buy a snack or some other small purchase, and not having any pockets, meant that he didn’t have any money on them. When I got married, I didn’t have my wallet on me. It was one of the few times I’ve been outside and without my wallet.
The Ringer’s real name is Anthony Davis from Medina County, Ohio – so he isn’t from Maryland. He must have said that to throw people off, but it sure does confuse Spider-Man. Which I know Bendis is from Ohio but looking the name up, turns out he is a proper Marvel character who got Ultimatized in this issue. Who got Ultimated? Who now has an Ultimate counterpart, yeah, that seems to be better.
The police arrive on the scene and Spider-Man knows that means they have to take off now. Kitty keeps wanting to shout the guy’s information. Are people from a county? Shouldn’t his driver’s license only say “Medina” or whatever city within the county the Ringer is from?
I do like how instead of calling him The Ringer, Kitty keeps calling him, Hula Hoop Guy – she wasn’t on the scene when he announced himself, so tries to come up with his villain name.
Once alone, Kitty lets Peter in on a secret – he has the worst villains. She has fought, with him, the Ringer and the Shocker, and both are below average in difficulty. Bendis takes the time to take a swipe at the Ultimates, as they did spend the first six issues of their series, fighting each other. Ultimates 2 is a much better volume, if you want more of a hero v villain plot.
Spider-Man swings them over to the Daily Bugle. Once they land, Kitty explains her brilliant idea. She wants to create a separate costumed identity so that the world doesn’t put the X-Men’s Shadowcat and Spider-Man together as a couple. Kitty wants to date Peter Parker and be seen out in public with him. A couple pairings is an old fashion team-up but anymore than that is suspicious. So Shadowcat can’t be seen with Spider-Man too many times as people seeing Kitty Pryde and Peter Parker, it wouldn’t take much to make the connection that Spider-Man may be Peter Parker. Kitty Pryde is a public figure, so a simple Google search reveals that she is an X-Man.
Kitty wants Peter to come up with her new name. He comes up with, Spider-Girl, she quickly shuts it down and he has no other ideas. Spider-Man, was as good as he came up with. Well, in the Ultimate Universe, the wrestling league came up with it.
Sorry, our scanner is only so big so the top panels are missing – mostly it is Kitty repeating that she wants help with the new name – the costume doesn’t lend itself to any ideas. After that, Kitty gives a giant, Yahoo, as webslinging must be fun.
Also missing is Kitty, once again, needing to have Peter say that he wants this relationship – which now that I’m this far removed from it, I want to say she does rather often. She may have always been more committed to the relationship than he was.
Okay, we are at the house panel, so you can follow along, dear reader.
Peter worries about how his aunt will handle him being in a relationship. Kitty points out that all of the horrible things that his aunt had to deal with, is simply due to him being Spider-Man. He’s not ready to tell his aunt his spider-secret – so it isn’t Kitty related at all. That slash she is the easier thing to say, less revealing on his part.
Kitty wants to simply date Peter. She comes up with the great idea that, if Peter had a girlfriend, that would give him plenty of opportunities to lie to his aunt and put on some red and blue spandex. She takes another swipe at his lame villains, he tries to mock her’s but she does have some decent villains – Magneto, Hellfire Club and the Brotherhood.
Kitty mentions Mojo, which is important as this Deadpool arc is a sort of sequel to the Ultimate X-Men Most Dangerous Game arc. Which I’ll review one of these days but since I’m already reviewing five issues inspired from one issue, I feel like I’m already down one rabbit hole. We’ll get there.
Kitty tells Peter that she is very open about her being a mutant, so she would not not tell Aunt May. Kitty will also tell her that she is an X-Man. I like how Peter’s first thought is how does a kid from Midtown High School dating one of the X-Men. They do need a better cover story than ‘meeting in a mall.’
The X-Plane arrives, it is on remote now.
Her teammates thought it was cool that she was dating Spider-Man but they are over it. Peter should just be out with dating Kitty. That is a pretty decent kiss!
Kitty gets into it and phases through him, which both ruins the moment and not grosses but unsettles him. Peter wants her to call him, once she goes home. Their relationship really is good, except for his complications.
I like that Bendis gives us a full page of Kitty’s thoughts. She barely got much play in X-Men, so I was all for her slowly getting onto this title. Kitty hasn’t told any of her teammates about her new costume identity idea, she really isn’t that close to anyone at the mansion.
I really like her wanting a life outside of the X-Men, which more X-Men should want that in every dimension.
She worries about pushing him away.
There is an add for the first Fantastic Four movie. Ioan Gruffudd will always be my Reed Richards.
Kitty comes home to an empty mansion, which must be super unsettling. She must think they are out on an adventure until she runs into Wolverine.
Who isn’t Wolverine, rut row! He tries to stab her, she lets him phase through her and she takes off. He attempts an energy attack.
Kitty feels the sting of the energy attack. Storm enters the room but she doesn’t recognize, Ororo, as a word. So that isn’t Storm and Kitty phases down a floor.
Kitty heads to the garage but men with guns are already there. Kitty’s first thought for help is to call the Ultimates, that can’t be a good sign of her confidence in a certain wall crawler. She phases through some computers and the X-Plane sequence is set.
Kitty is outnumbered and is knocked out. We got a pretty great six page sequence that didn’t have Spider-Man on any page – that is a nice commitment.
Meanwhile, at the Parker House. Aunt May is getting ready for a date, she doesn’t care what he has been up to. He notices the X-Plane is going to his spot that he meets Kitty. Is that an abandon house or something?
Once entering the plane, it sets course back to the mansion. We learn that it is only a twenty minute plane ride to Westchester, which seems super reasonable.
That is super funny, Peter saying “Hello Kitty” and then immediately recognizing it. What keeps that franchise alive? Is there a new cartoon, how are people discovering it or getting into it? The dolls and various other merchandise isn’t that cute.
Shadowcat walks up to Spider-Man, his spider-sense goes off but he doesn’t know why. She then blasts Spider-Man and knocks him out. Issue ends with Kitty shifting into . . . Deadpool and the Reavers!
Letters Page features letters from – Nekolas Martin of South Boston, VA / Onsy “Scorpy” Al Hagrassy of Dubai, UAE / Phillip Tallman / Stuart West of the United Kingdom / Xalibar / Alec Berry / Mark H and Jacob Silvers of Warren, OH.
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I only heard this song twice on the radio and instantly loved it. It sounded so epic and amazing. Then I forgot about it until it was used in some promotion which I forget what it was as I was busy thinking about typing this post.
I really like Shakira, the video isn’t at all what I thought it would be but it is an amazing song. It reminds me of why I really like Rock Operas with how epic sounding those songs can be. I think that’s what I’m constantly looking for in new songs, something with a little grandiose.
Writer Brian Michael Bendis
Artist David Lafuente
Colorist Justin Ponsor
Letterer VC’s Cory Petit
Cover Dated August 2010
Tainted Love, Part Three of Six
Aunt May was at the school assembly and comes home, declaring that there will be no more super heroes. She wants them to stop until the heat goes down. Aunt May thinks Johnny is cute. Gwen wants to know if anyone has heard from Kitty.
Bobby hasn’t and Aunt May is worried about whoever becomes the new principal. She is mostly worried about having one of her kids being hunted by the government. Aunt May was the boys to take this opportunity to be normal and live their lives, properly. Bobby wants to look for Kitty.
Gwen reminds them that Kenny is with Kitty. Bobby is worried Kitty is going to join a Brotherhood of Evil Mutants – I would be more worried about her starting one.
Very funny exchange about Peter calling Bobby paranoid and him committing to it.
Aunt May wants the costumes to stay in the closet. She also lets them know that she knows how to use the Internet and will be checking for any superhero sightings.
Bobby wants to use this opportunity to get a job, as he has no money. Peter says the Burger Frog is hiring. Bobby is new there, so he is called, a Tad Pole. Pretty clever, management. Johnny shows up to harass Bobby and gets his underpants frozen, as thanks.
Mary Jane arrives,Kitty wouldn’t have called her. Mary Jane has tried Kenny’s house but no one answers the phone. Is Bobby hitting on Mary Jane? She wants to speak with Gwen too. I like how Gwen misunderstands Mary Jane’s intentions, as she says Peter can talk to her on his own, as she trusts him. Bobby’s “Dun Dun Dun” is fun.
Mary Jane shows the footage that she recorded. Mary Jane wants advice on what to do with the footage. She would like to use the footage to save Principal Suitress’ job, or at least, his reputation. Gwen and Peter have a quick fight, what is that about? Peter knows the best person to talk to.
Peter takes Mary Jane to the Daily Bugle. Peter introduces Mary Jane to Ben Urich. The Daily Bugle is an exclusive online newspaper now. Peter misses the old fashion office, whereas Mary Jane really digs the new layout. Ben doesn’t remember meeting Mary Jane before, but from the dialogue, I take it, it wasn’t on panel.
Urich is impress with Mary Jane’s whereof all to film the event. Urich explains their situation – it is news but you don’t want to make the victim more of a victim. On the other hand, the FBI was grossly wrong and the principal was trying to make it right. He offers to pay Mary Jane for the footage.
There is an ad for the Honda Insight.
He offers ten thousand, pumps it up to twenty thousand and Mary Jane keeps declining. He was only testing her, to make sure she was serious. Urich states that they don’t show the footage, they report it. He asks if they know where Kitty is, and they don’t.
Peter sees Jameson, and his spider sense goes off. Peter starts following his trail. Mary Jane tries to cover for Peter. Urich asks how long she has known Kitty, she says on this school year.
Peter catches up to Jameson, and he doesn’t recognize the kid, so Peter knows something is wrong. We get the cover scene recreated. He knocks Peter out in his confusion. Jameson takes Peter’s wallet and puts Peter in his trunk. He wakes Peter up, and while holding his face, shifts into Peter. This is the first appearance of Ultimate Chameleon, which is a shame as he is the first super villain that proper Spider-Man fought.
He knocks out Peter, once he learns his voice. Apparently it hurts when he shifts his height from 5’11 to 5’5.
“Peter” heads back up to Mary Jane and Urich, as he saw him talking to them earlier. Urich is still asking questions, such as if Mary Jane knew she was an X-Man. She did, as Kitty was very open about that. The issue ends with Peter confirming he doesn’t want to be on the record.
I will be reviewing issue 155 of Ultimate Spider-Man next.
Just heard this first song and thought the message was pretty similar to the next :
5 Seconds of Summer’s Good Girls
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Cobra Starship’s Good Girls Go Bad, featuring Leighton Meester
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Am I right?
Maybe its just the similar type of videos.
Writer Brian Michael Bendis
Artist David Lafuente
Colorist Justin Ponsor
Letterer VC’s Cory Petit
Cover Dated July 2010
Tainted Love, Part Two of Six
Issue opens with the principal asking the agents to have a heart. The one agent saying the class is only for humans, is going way to far! What mess up federal law was that? Kenny punches the agent to his dumb face. Johnny has some respect for Kenny now. Agent Stevenson is the not horrible one. Kenny starts shouting about how Kitty is innocent.
Bobby wants to get in the fight but Peter says to stand down. Johnny also wants to do something but listens to Peter. Peter asks Kitty to put an end to this, and with a tear, she dies inside. Her one non-powered friend, is willing to go to jail to her, while her three powered friends, decide to just stand there and do nothing.
Kitty stands up and tells everyone to stop. One of the agents tries to arrest her but she reminds Kenny that she was an X-Man.
Kitty starts phasing Kenny through the floor. Everyone is happy that she is on the run, which is an odd reaction. The agents start running, somewhere. The principal and Peter exchange a look.
Iron Man is coming to theaters as there is a slew of products.
Kitty has phased the two of them into the sewer. Kitty is pretty thankful to Kenny for standing up for her. Kenny awkwardly tells her that he still loves her, but it wasn’t like he wanted to get back with her, that wasn’t his motivation. Though, he would get back with her, if she wanted to. I don’t quite recall them dating or why they broke up, but I’m sure we’ll get to those issues one day. They kiss.
That is some kiss! Kitty comes up with a plan.
At a school assembly, the principal is disgusted by the turn of events. He gives an impassioned speech, which ends with him stating he is resigning. Not like it mattered, as he was about to be fired, regardless.
At the Parker Home for Wayward Heroes. No one is happy with their decision. Peter knew that it would have escalated if powers got involved. Bobby really wanted to do something, X-Men Represent, yo! Peter tells everyone to hero up and they end over to Kitty’s house. The media has gotten word of what happened and they are camped out in front of the Pryde home. Spider-Man sees something.
There is a huge explosion! The Shroud appears and starts cursing at the stupid flatscanners.
Spider-Man foolishly dives at the Shroud and passes right through the person. Bobby uses the word, phase, and finally figures out who the Shroud. A mystery that has lasted since the first issue of this relaunch. Shroud punches Bobby’s dumb face.
The Shroud takes off her mask, revealing her to be . . . KITTY PRYDE!!! Which is a pretty awesome reveal.
Shroud is disgusted with her would-be friends. Why will they help her now when they wouldn’t at the beginning of all of this? Shroud calls Human Torch a himbo, a word that was popular back in 2010, oh so many years ago.
Ultimate Kitty becomes like the Proper Vision, is that she controls her density, which is a power upgrade I wish the Proper Kitty Pryde would learn. It makes her even more of a threat.
Spider-Man wants her to stop, as she is becoming the threat the media always said she was. She goes all Quieten Quire and says that, Magneto was right.
Shroud superpunches Spider-Man’s stupid face. Mrs. Pryde wants Spider-Man, who crashed through her window, to help her daughter.
Human Torch tells her to calm down, which is something that has always helped. Iceman freezes Shroud, he walks up to the ice cube to inspect it and Shroud phases her head, resulting in giving him a headbutt. A move, I would never recommend anyone does, it hurts both you and your opponent.
Shroud explains the obvious power upgrade. She gets to lash out on her silly friends. She calls Spider-Man, a human, which is as low as insults go. Iceman is a race traitor. She starts phasing into the ground.
The boys head over to a manhole cover. Johnny heats it, Bobby freezes it and Spider-Man smashes it with his foot. He does go as far as to say that he could have done his part from the beginning. Or, you know, they could have just lifted it like people do.
Johnny isn’t built for sewers. They can’t see her, even with Johnny’s flame lighting the way. Spider-Man shouts that they love her and they only want to help. Iceman calls her, Kit, which doesn’t sound good. Johnny wants them to leave, like how she requested.
I know Lafuente has a rep for being a cartoony artist but look at that page above. So much intensity there!
Issue ends with Mary Jane reviewing the recording she made. Jessica Jones looks over her shoulder and declares that Mary Jane just bought herself into any college she will want to attend.
I relooked at the pages above and I don’t see her recording any of it, she is simply holding her binder but maybe it was from the previous issue.
I will be reviewing the next chapter of this storyline and it will be my last as Kitty doesn’t show up for the rest of the storyline or the series until the 15th issue. I have that issue on my Wishlist.
Whenever the radio plays
Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me, Maybe
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I want to instantly listen to :
Wekejay’s Batman Maybe
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That Batman song haunts my thoughts! Before Dark Knight Rises, this was the video that was keeping the visuals alive in my mind.
Writer Brian Michael Bendis
Artist David Lafuente
Colorist Justin Ponsor
Letterer VC’s Cory Petit
Cover Dated June 2010
Tainted Love, Part One of Six
I only only the first three chapters of this storyline and will be reviewing all three shortly.
This volume of Ultimate Spider-Man happens after Ultimatum, me pointing that out will make sense at the end of the issue.
Brooklyn, 12:45pm – Bombshell (who is a mother and daughter team – the younger one will later be a member of the All New Ultimates) are knocking over an armor truck. The truck only has six bags of cash but that should be enough. All I really need in life is like $100,000.00 and I could be out of debt – student loans be crazy!
They are glad there are no police or Spider-Man around when they both get webbing in their eyes. They start spouting profanities, which I always read as “fuck.” Spider-Woman calls them out on their language. The mother daughter team keeps swearing. The mother wants Lana to take the money and run but she isn’t going without a fight. I wonder if they talk about this exchange ever, once they are on the same team. Lana calls Spider-Woman nothing but a Spider-Man wanna be with a B-Cup. Which she must barely be an A-Cup, so that must be some jealousy with the comment.
Nothing wrong with a B-Cup, look at Ashley Judd and Andie McDowell, even Michelle Pfeiffer.
Human Torch shows up, makes a crack about how there is enough of him for all the women present. Johnny chases them with fire and Spider-Woman knocks them out. Johnny tries to ask Spider-Woman out and she motors.
Poor Jessica, let’s just call her that, finds a dark place and takes her mask off. Johnny was stalking her, so he now sees her actual face and is even more in love. He would marry her, if she would have him. He keeps pressing her for a date. She can’t believe he won’t let up.
Over at Midtown High School. Peter is trying to get to class, his girlfriend – Gwen Stacy – wants to take him to the ladies bathroom. He is still maintaining his A grade point average.
Kitty points out the stall he is suppose to go into. Mary Jane is there and it is time for Peter’s haircut. Which I was going to comment on, before the page, but his hair was so long, I thought it was Kitty for a moment.
I’m with Peter, I wouldn’t want these three broads hanging out together and eating lunch – nothing good can come from that. Except for this haircut! They all point out how round his head is, when he wears his mask, he has a perfectly round head. Which I can only imagine this is a fun critique of Lafuente’s cartoony style.
Tandy, Ultimate Dagger, comes into the stall and is not thrilled that there is a boy in the room nor a haircut taking place. To make it worst, a mutant is amongst them. I wonder if Kitty ever brought this up with Dagger later. I remember her being racist but her current persona isn’t like this at all. I wonder if Bendis regretted this or purposely did it to build her into a better person.
Parker Home. Aunt May loves the haircut. This is during the era when Spider-Man, Iceman, Human Torch and Gwen Stacy lived in her house. Such a great era! Bobby thinks Peter has a pretty face. Johnny comes home and tells everyone that he is in love.
There is an ad for Amazing Spider-Man 538, by Joe Quesada, which came out in June 2010. The ad is promoting, One Moment in Time, so I’ve not been collecting Spider-Man comics for a solid five years.
Johnny thanks Peter, if it wasn’t for him, he never would have known love. Peter isn’t sure who is a hot chick he knows as Spider-Man. He names Silver Sabre, Elektra and Black Cat. Gwen is not too happy that Peter knows so many hot ladies. Both Johnny and Bobby want to meet this Black Cat. Gwen thinks they all sound like skanks. All three of them are well in their twenties, so they wouldn’t waste any time with a teenager. Which is the right call.
Johnny finally explains which hot chick it is, Spider-Woman. Peter can’t believe it is Jessica who Johnny is attracted to. Which is a good time to mention how clever a line of Bobby saying Peter has a pretty face is. Jessica is Peter’s clone, so if she is pretty – at all- then that means he has a pretty face. If Johnny is attracted to Jessica, then there must be something that he finds attractive about Peter.
Making things worst, is that Johnny claims he made out with Jessica. Hearing this, and getting it confirmed a few more times, Peter runs out of the house in a panic. If Jessica did kiss Johnny, and I highly suspect that she didn’t, then there must be something in Peter that is attracted to Johnny. Which this is a subject matter that the opposite-gender clone plotline (it happens) rarely deals with.
Spider-Man goes on a crime fighting spree that involves punching Ultimate Owl. Do you know how to draw an owl? You draw two circles . . . and then you draw the rest of the owl.
I saw this a few days ago and I keep thinking about it.
Back at school. One of their teachers, Ms. Shutz, is trying to inspire seniors to do better in their classes. Johnny is still pestering Peter for why he way overreacted. Outside of the classroom, the principal and two federal agents are looking into the room. The principal wants Kitty to get her things and head outside.
Kitty is confused what the principal could want. This is what he referenced to in an earlier appearance (which I’m not sure was on panel) that the school may have problems with her being a mutant. She didn’t do anything, in fact, she’s the model student.
Kitty gets it together and starts thinking about the situation. What can anyone even do to her. She can phase through their bullets then then the idiot behind her will be killed. Which I really like the reaction of the fool who sits behind her, he is very concern.
Marjorie Liu is interviewed on the Women of Marvel page, that was a thing during this year. I had forgotten she was around Marvel even back then.
The agents start making a move on Kitty. Peter finally stands up and says what they are attempting is not right. Also, that they are trying to make Kitty mad so that they can justify their incorrect actions. The issue ends with Peter yelling at Kitty to run as she whispers that all she wants is to go to school like everybody else.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 