The original Spider-Man was fundamentally formed by his Uncle Ben, and Miles has an Uncle Aaron, although he’s a contrasting character, and while a temporary influence, there’s a very different outcome. He includes what seem to be familiar items, then twists them. A very clever aspect of Bendis’ plotting throughout is how he echoes elements from the first five years or so of Spider-Man’s adventures from the 1960s.

Miles and the uncertain way he’s thrown into a new life has a great sympathy about it, and Brian Michael Bendis makes the effort to ensure the people surrounding him are equally appealing, from his concerned parents to his geeky, but incredibly supportive best mate Ganke. Spider-Woman is different, but Cloak and Dagger are much the same. They also take the time to embed him in his locations, ensuring they’re convincingly detailed as places where people live or work, and because the population of the Ultimate universe differs slightly from the more known Marvel Earth, their variations on some other characters are interesting.

Both of them are superb, Pichelli takes a slightly more cartoon approach, but they both have an imaginative eye for a page design and convince that Miles is thirteen and fourteen both as Spider-Man or at school. This one, however, may tail off a little toward the end, but before then it’s supplied the first six collections featuring Miles Morales as Spider-Man, every single one of them hugely enjoyable superhero fun.Ī couple of other artists contribute, but it’s Sara Pichelli who designs Miles and his world, teams him with the older Peter Parker, and returns for the terrifying Venom sequence, and David Marquez draws almost everything else. Because they gather vast amounts of material, the average Marvel Omnibus provides a fluctuating quality of read, and sometimes proves disappointing for the money.

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