Ultimate Spider-Man #121 spoilers

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See a preview of Ultimate Spider-Man #121 at: http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0804/18/marvelfirsts.htm


Also see previews for HULK VS. HERCULES: WHEN TITANS CLASH, MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR #35, MARVEL ILLUSTRATED: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY #5, MIGHTY AVENGERS #12, MS. MARVEL #26, NEW EXILES #5, POWER PACK: DAY ONE #2, SHE-HULK #28, THOR #8, ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #53, UNCANNY X-MEN #497, WOLVERINE: FIRST CLASS #2, X-FORCE #3, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS #11, & YOUNG AVENGERS PRESENTS #4.
 
Ultimate Spider-Man #121 will arrive in stores on April 23 from Marvel Comics. The issue is written by Brian Michael Bendis, with art and cover by Stuart Immonen.

Here's how Marvel describes the issue:

"The battle for the skies continues as young pilot Karl Kauffman takes the fight to the Hun. But as the missions continue and the body count rises, Kauffman learns quickly that combat isn¹t as glamorous as he'd hoped. Meanwhile, his fellow soldiers begin to question the strange circumstances of his arrival. Kauffman must prove his worth before his past is uncovered. But doing so might cost the lives of his closest friends."
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Nice one, Comics Continuum.
 
Also will Omega red get any characterization in this story? Will he be anything besides a generic thug? :smile:
 
DIrishB said:
If the preview pages are a clue, I'd go with "generic thug".

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That would be a shame, with Gobby and Kingpin out of the picture, Spidey needs other interesting foes.

Hopeful the mastermind in the next issue is more interesting.
 
Ice said:
The pages being a clue? It's Bendis writing. Isn't that clue enough? :lol:
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Funny, i thought the pages actually contained an awfully strong clue that Red was NOT being treated generically or like a throwaway: doesn't he seems extremely vulnerable and sympathetic in that final two-page spread?


rfip
 
mulesandmud said:
Funny, i thought the pages actually contained an awfully strong clue that Red was NOT being treated generically or like a throwaway: doesn't he seems extremely vulnerable and sympathetic in that final two-page spread?


rfip
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I haven't looked at the pages. I was just making a joke on Bendis. :p
 
Ice said:
I haven't looked at the pages. I was just making a joke on Bendis. :p
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See the thing is Bendis can write B-list characters in a interesting manner (ex: Purple Man), he just chooses not to often.
 
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This issue was actually good. Omega Red still sucked (he's like a roided up Shocker at this point), but the issue itself was fun.

There were a few laugh out loud moments for me (the scene with Flash repeating he's not Spider-Man had me chuckling), and the story kept a steady pace.

I'm wondering if next issue will be a direct continuation of this one.





4/5
 
DIrishB said:
This issue was actually good. Omega Red still sucked (he's like a roided up Shocker at this point), but the issue itself was fun.

There were a few laugh out loud moments for me (the scene with Flash repeating he's not Spider-Man had me chuckling), and the story kept a steady pace.
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See here is something that is unrealistic. In real life, mercs are extremely dangerously, look at the people who work for Black water, do you think they would send mooks to Iraq? No, real mercs are highly trained and very cunning. In the UU, mercs are pathetic jokes. Seriously Red should have given Spidey a way tougher time, he was surrounded my potential hostages. Red should be dangerous to Spidey because he is more experience and better training, that way he would seem like a real merc, not a wannabe. If he was wannabe, no one would have hired him in the first place.
 
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The Overlord said:
See here is something that is unrealistic. In real life, mercs are extremely dangerously, look at the people who work for Black water, do you think they would send mooks to Iraq? No, real mercs are highly trained and very cunning. In the UU, mercs are pathetic jokes. Seriously Red should have given Spidey a way tougher time, he was surrounded my potential hostages. Red should be dangerous to Spidey because he is more experience and better training, that way he would seem like a real merc, not a wannabe. If he was wannabe, no one would have hired him in the first place.
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Way i understand it is that he was mainly hired because he's a mutant and i missed where they said he had any training.

Besides, this isn't real life it's a comic book and good beats evil yadda,yadda.
 
Venom Melendez said:
Way i understand it is that he was mainly hired because he's a mutant and i missed where they said he had any training.

Besides, this isn't real life it's a comic book and good beats evil yadda,yadda.
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If he was getting jobs from powerful organizations in the first place, logic says he should be very dangerous and well trained. In the real world Black water doesn't hire mooks. Does the UU pride itself on realism? Well dangerous mercs are more realistic than loser mercs.

Its not Red lost was problematic, its that he lost like a chump.
 
The Overlord said:
If he was getting jobs from powerful organizations in the first place, logic says he should be very dangerous and well trained. In the real world Black water doesn't hire mooks. Does the UU pride itself on realism? Well dangerous mercs are more realistic than loser mercs.

Its not Red lost was problematic, its that he lost like a chump.
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Again though, there's no bigger oxymoron than ''Realism in fiction'' because by defenition fiction isn't real. In the real world Red could kill teenager easy powers or no.

But we can't kill the protagonist now can we? And in the real world a spider bite wont get you powers.

Alot of mercs in fiction are chumps man.

Just saying.
 
Venom Melendez said:
Again though, there's no bigger oxymoron than ''Realism in fiction'' because by defenition fiction isn't real. In the real world Red could kill teenager easy powers or no..
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People talk about realism in the UU on this board all the time.

Venom Melendez said:
But we can't kill the protagonist now can we? And in the real world a spider bite wont get you powers...
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Bullseye loses to DD a lot, but he doesn't come off as a chump.

Venom Melendez said:
Alot of mercs in fiction are chumps man.

Just saying.
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And in comics a lot of mercs are dangerous, just like a lot would in real life.
 
The Overlord said:
People talk about realism in the UU on this board all the time.



Bullseye loses to DD a lot, but he doesn't come off as a chump.



And in comics a lot of mercs are dangerous, just like a lot would in real life.
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Still, it's fiction saying it's not being realistic is silly.again an Oxymoron.

And if they where truely dangerous they could easily take on a bunch of costume teenagers.
 
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