Writer Brian Michael Bendis

Artist David Lafuente

Colorist Justin Ponsor

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

Cover Dated March 2010

New World According to Peter Parker, Part Six of Six

According to the recap page for issue five, the only thing of note that happened was that Iceman got kicked out of his parents’ home and went to Kitty Pryde for him.  She introduced him to Aunt May and now he lives there, as well.

That is one crowded table!  Good thing Kitty is only visiting!  Now the cast of the title is complete!  !

Gwen, always never awkward, stands up and announces that she is Peter’s girlfriend.  Gwen doesn’t want the two new boys to be chasing her, where she sleeps.

Aunt May restates the no hanky panky rule, she emphases it to Johnny.  She kept up with the gossip websites, which surprises Peter.  It makes sense, in this more grounded world, that the news would cover Johnny Storm like he was a regular celebrity.

Peter wonders how the boys are going to go undetected, Aunt May has a scheme.

There is an ad for the Honda Civic.

First up, Johnny dyes his hair black – the ladies help him.  In the shower, Peter is assisting Bobby with shaving his head.

The big plan is to have Johnny and Bobby pose as Peter’s cousins.  Over at Midtown High, the principal isn’t buying it.  He suspects Peter is Spider-Man, so he can sort of guess who these other two are.  Good thing Aunt May has a slight history of taking in nephews.  The Principal, now that we are Post Ultimatum, is a huge fan of Spider-Man.  He still rather the school wasn’t targeted to just get to Spider-Man.

Captain America : Reborn 6 is coming out, so this will bring Steve Rogers back to the land of the living – in the present day.

Midtown High School.  Next Morning.  Mary Jane can’t believe that the Parkers are even going to attempt to pass Johnny off as a high school student.  He is age appropriate but he clearly looks like the Human Torch.

Peter’s spider sense starts to go off.  I like Bobby having to learn about Peter and his abilities, I can see him not really paying attention when Kitty was going on about dating Spider-Man.

Peter eyes a female student going through a set of double doors, next, a giant explosion occurs.  Then the three eye robot from the cover arrives on the scene.

Peter tells everybody to get out.  Johnny really wants to help but Peter tells him not too.  Which is smart, one can’t simply have Spider-Man, the X-Men’s Iceman and the Fantastic Four’s Human Torch, all suit up all at once.

There is an house ad for X-Necrosha that is starting soon.

Peter suits up.

See Jessica Jones in that second panel on the top row?  That’s what got me to review this issue for this event month.

Spider-Man starts fighting the robot and saves the principal.

The Shroud shows up on the scene.  Spider-Man now knows that the Shroud is not the principal, which is a clear joke.

While he was joking, the Shroud disabled the robot – proving who is the better hero.  Human Torch, the idiot, arrives and burns the robot.  Which, with the time difference, people are probably going to assume it took him a while to get there – so he doesn’t go to the school.  Plus, the Shroud being there, they will probably imagine that this is a new team of young heroes.

Human Torch has to be told that he just ruined any evidence, thus any leads.  So now he knows he is a rookie and needs to be schooled.

Spider-Man and the Human Torch leave the scene.  We see the Shroud is also getting away but taking off their hood.

There is an ad for Fantastic Four 575, by Jonathan Hickman and Dale Eaglesham.

The Shroud is really . . . Kitty Pryde!  So issue four is the very first issue that Kitty ever has had in her Ultimate career.

The issue ends with Mysterio being all proud of himself.  He notices the police are getting close and blows up his headquarters.

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With this, we conclude Jessica Jones Month!  I really need to work on ending these in a better fashion.

Writer Brian Michael Bendis

Artist David Lafuente

Colorist Justin Ponsor

Letterer VC’s Cory Petit

Cover Dated January 2010

New World According to Peter Parker, Part Four of Six

I will be reviewing issues four and six of this storyline, as we conclude Jessica Jones month.

So this volume takes place right after Ultimatum, New York City is quite happy with Peter Parker and it appears everyone is living at his house.  Peter is dating Gwen and the Kingpin was killed by Mysterio.

The Mall, Closing Time.  Mary Jane and Lucy are walking away after a long day at work.  Brad comes running after Mary Jane, Lucy heads off.  Brad is their boss and he decides that it is cool for a freshman in college to date a sophmore in High School (it isn’t).  She starts trying to politely turn him down with this dumb face with a gun strolls up.  He also wants to date Mary Jane (I don’t get it, either) and Brad runs once a gun is brandished.  Mary Jane starts trying to turn this guy down.

There is an ad for Kia Motors The Soul, so go out and get one of those!

Just then, the Shroud comes crashing down onto the car.  The gunster opens fire but the Shroud isn’t affected by bullets.  We will learn who the Shroud is in issue six.  The Shroud gets the cover treatment too!

The Shroud makes very short work of the gunster.

The Shroud has a private moment with Mary Jane and decides to open up about how stupid criminals are.

Mary Jane goes into reporter mode, wanting answers.  Mary Jane figures that the Shroud must be her age and most likely, a fellow student at her school.  The Shroud points out that Mary Jane hasn’t said, thanks, so she does.  I do like how Mary Jane gives the Shroud a chance to provide a superhero name.

Peter Parker’s Home, Queens.  Johnny is explaining to Peter that he lives there now.  Peter can’t believe it and has so many questions.  Aunt May loves having a full house.

There is an ad for Nissan’s Cube.

Johnny isn’t thrilled about having to do chores, having to learn what they are.

Midtown High School, the Next Morning.  Mary Jane talks to Peter, telling him there is a new superhero in town, she saw them last night.  Peter mistakes “saw them” as her meaning that she is dating them.  Mary Jane isn’t sure if the Shroud is a boy pretending to be a girl or a girl pretending to be a boy, a fake voice is differently at work.

Peter starts to quiz Mary Jane on what the Shroud’s powers are and such.  It takes him a bit before he comes around and makes sure that Mary Jane is okay.  She is quite shaken up and starts crying that she attracts losers as she is a loser and regrets breaking up with Peter.  Gwen is lucky enough to overhear this.

Apparently, Mary Jane has been turning boys away, as she has been pinning for Peter.  Gwen is cool and Mary Jane is a mess, so Peter wouldn’t even think about backsliding.  Gwen wants to have some real girl talk with Mary Jane.  Gwen and Peter want to be friend with Mary Jane but she doesn’t return any of their calls.

Another plus in the Gwen column?  She lives under the same roof with Peter, so that’s pretty nice.  Though Aunt May has a no “hanky panky” rule.

Jessica Jones sees her friend, Mary Jane, and starts talking to her.

Jessica wants Mary Jane to be her reporter, as the Hulk is destroying the Queens-borough Bridge.  Peter tells his ladies that he has to go, and Mary Jane and Gwen say at the same time – Don’t Get Hurt!!  So that’s going to be awkward.

Spider-Man gets to the bridge and tries to calm the Hulk down.

There is an ad for the very excellent Astonishing X-Men Motion Comic, for the Gifted arc.

Spider-Man starts going on the attack, except that the Hulk is only a mere hologram.  There is a huge explosion and we learn that Mysterio was behind the charade.

We will learn later in Spider-Men that this Mysterio is really the Proper Mysterio and this is his avatar, which is fun that isn’t even hinted at here.

The Dark X-Men miniseries is starting around this time, as this is printing around the beginning of the Utopia era of the X-Men.

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