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Last evening Bleeding Cool broke the information that the returning Ultimate Spider-Man from Jonathan Hickman & Marco Checchetto can be totally different.
Last evening Bleeding Cool broke the information (swiftly adopted up by a press launch from Marvel Comics) that the returning Ultimate Spider-Man from Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto in January 2024 can be a really totally different one. A Peter Parker, married to Mary Jane, with two children… who solely then turns into Spider-Man in his thirties. Traditionally, and within the earlier Ultimate Spider-Man, Peter Parker turns into Spider-Man as a youngster and has to cope with teenage issues earlier than rising right into a younger man in his twenties and by no means progressing additional.
Back within the day, superpowers have been all about want fulfilment, empowering those that felt they have been with out energy, and an influence fantasy for teenagers. Spider-Man embodied that – the identical age as a lot of his readers, who additionally felt pissed off of their lives and their lack of energy… they name it company as of late. Maybe “agency fantasy” is perhaps a greater time period?
Because energy fantasies, or company fantasies, are simply as common in the present day. Even extra, in order that it is actively addressed by media and society, even when the issues aren’t really solved. Sometimes a fantasy is all you might have.
And why ought to these fantasies be the reserve of {the teenager}? Even the stunted adolescent into his forties and fifties? Might a unique form of Spider-Man deal with a unique form of powerlessness, by those that really feel that life may need… slipped them by? With children they cannot afford to ship to varsity and oldsters they cannot afford to take care of?
A greater query, nonetheless, could also be how itchy will that beard be underneath the Spider-Man masks? Here’s the PR…
Writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Marco Checchetto’s daring new tackle ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN is shaping as much as be stuffed with surprises! Launching this January as the primary ongoing sequence set in Marvel’s new Ultimate Universe, ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN will star a really totally different Peter Parker—an older, wiser net-slinger who balances his tremendous hero duties along with his tasks as a husband and a father. That’s proper, Spider-Man is a married man!
Meet Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson—MR. & MRS. PARKER! They’re one of popular culture’s most iconic {couples}, and now readers will see them stronger than ever within the Ultimate Universe. To have fun, Peter and MJ’s romance shall be featured on a sequence of image excellent variant covers by Elizabeth Torque that can adorn the primary 4 problems with ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN. Spidey famous person Ryan Stegman additionally spotlights the entire Parker household on a brand new promotional piece.
“When we decided that we were going to do a book about an older Peter Parker becoming Spider-Man, we really wanted to lean into him starting his super hero life from a very different place than what’s traditionally expected,” Hickman defined. “Peter and MJ being married is one of many decisions we made that underline this being quite a ‘different’ kind of Spider-man story.”
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #1
MARVEL COMICS
OCT230875
(W) Jonathan Hickman (A/CA) Marco Checchetto
THE NEW ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN FOR A NEW ULTIMATE UNIVERSE!
Visionary author Jonathan Hickman (HOUSE OF X/POWERS OF X) and acclaimed artist Marco Checchetto (DAREDEVIL) carry you a daring new tackle Spider-Man, with this, the debut title of the brand new line of Ultimate Comics! After the occasions of ULTIMATE INVASION, the world wants a hero…who will rise as much as tackle that accountability? Prepare to be entangled in an online of thriller and pleasure because the all-new ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN comedian redefines the wall-crawler for the twenty first Century! Rated TIn Shops: Jan 10, 2024 SRP: $5.99
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