Ultimate Spider-Man 154 Review

It is now time to dip right into into the really big comic book box of doom and pull out another comic book, this time an Ultimate Spider-Man comic book. That in fact being Ultimate Spider-Man Issue 154. In this comic, the Black Cat, Spider-Man, and Mysterio do battle over a mystical artifact that the Kingpin owned.

Ultimate Spider-Man 154 Review

Ultimate Spider-Man Issue 154 was released with a cover date of April 2011 by Marvel Comics. This Ultimate Spider-Man comic book featured the writing talents of Brian Michael Bendis, Penciled and Inked by Sara Pichelli, David Lefuete, and Elena Casagrande, Colored by Justin Ponsor, and Lettered by Cory Petit.

Ah Ultimate Spider-Man, the comic book, not the polarizing animation series by the same name. A comic book that was an interesting alternate take on the Spider-Man mythology. It had some cool new ideas, some ideas that really were not of the best, but it did have its fans. Over the years, it seemed to get rather stale and the quality just was not there.

This is the prelude to the death of Spider-Man, where they killed Peter Parker off. And since this is not the mainstream comics where people die and come back to life, about as often as changing their socks, Spider-Man stays dead. This entire storyline was something that pretty much cracked the Internet in half and we are not going to even get into the reaction for his replacement.

Now this story off of the back end of Ultimate Spider-Man, when Peter Parker was Spider-Man, back end seems to be a pretty good word. I don't want to say that this story was amount the worst but yeah there is just something about it, that really did not captivate my interest.

Ultimate Spider-Man comics were a different take off of the mythos of Spider-Man, with changes being made. And some of these changes were not for the better. It took me a while before I realize that thing was supposed to be Mysterio. Mysterio and his trademark fishbowl helmet, is an iconic look that goes hand and hand.

And the artwork, the artwork that makes supposed teenagers look like about half of their age and not only half of their age, but something that came out of children of the corn or something. Might not be my cup of tea. The actual story was just standard super hero fare, and really it was a comic I blasted through in five minutes.

And other than the rather weird and somewhat unsettling artwork of this Ultimate Spider-Man comic, it left no impression on me. This was a few years after I had stopped reading this particular series of comics. It was good during its peak but when Ultimate Spider-Man fell, it fell rather fast with me.

Your mileage may vary. However, this comic was not my cup of tea. Give Ultimate Spider-Man Issue 154 from Marvel Comics a pass.