Joe Quesada's Variant for "Death of [Ultimate] Spider-Man"

[cyberghostface]

I have to admit that this is an effective cover, but I really have to wonder how serious they are with this being "death" of Spider-Man and if this isn't some elaborate red herring.

Comments

[blackruzsa]

I like it, definitely. It's touching.

But.... did Uncle Ben always have a ponytail?

[baxter2814]

Awww...I have to admit this is a really sweet, touching image. However, it will probably all go to crap if Ult Spidey is Only Mostly Dead, as usually happens.

[stubbleupdate]

From what I've seen, I'm pretty sure that Ultimate Peter Parker will not be around after 160

[turtlefu]

This doesn't seem sweet to me. It's seems like a cheap, exploitative cover used to drum up interest with a promise of "everything will change!", even though the end result still maintains the status quo.

[tsunamiwombat]

Why...why are they killing Peter? :(

That makes me sad. He's the last sane Peter Parker we have le-

Oh, that probably is why they're killing peter. :(

[proteus_lives]

That's actually a pretty good cover.

[espanolbot]

As much as it saddens me that Ult. Peter is dead (besides Tony Stark, Thor and the Wasp) he was pretty much the only non-asshole superhero in the Ultimate Universe, I am interested as to what Nick Fury's response to his involvement in Peter's accidental death is going to be.

Prior to the crossover with the Squadron Supreme universe, he had effectively become a mentor to Peter, providing him support, information and the promise that Peter could join the Ultimates officially when he turned 18.

The pair seemingly reconciling after Fury assumes that the revelation of the CIA's cloning programme (they had been cloning Peter because his messed up blood enabled him to be cloned better than regular people. It also made him immune to vampires, but that's a seperate point.) and who was running it would be the straw that broke the camel's back in terms of all the trauma that Peter's had to put up with, so he set up an anti-Spider-Man taskforce in the event that Peter became a supervillain.

The fact that Peter didn't wig out and start being evil caused Fury to actually apologise and actually appear to be genuinely nice, as opposed to just threatening people to do what he wants.

The fact that it was his order that killed Peter, albeit accidentally, should have an interesting impact on Fury, IF they stick with his characterisation and not semi-megalomaniacal, like when he tipped off the Red Skull and AIM about Reed Richards' unprotected Cosmic Cube blueprints in the post-Ultimatum Baxter Building, resulting in a lot of deaths and emotional trauma all around.

[chocochuy]

It appears that Quesada loves to make scenes of characters saying farewell as well as losing their Status Quo.

This scene is quite good but somehow I can't fully enjoy it because of its direct connections with Joephisto.