Ultimate Spider-Man: Hobgoblin

[cyberghostface]

#72...

The issue begins with a flashback to the events of #1...







In the present...









#73...

We flash back to after the events of "Ultimate Six".





For those who don't remember this was the same guy working for Norman way back in the first arc of the series.









#74...

Back in the present...











#75...











In case it's not clear Shaw's not really there, he's in Harry's head as a result of Norman's hypnosis.





#76...















#77...



Nick Fury and the cavalry arrive.















#78...

Comments

[beyondthefringe]

Mark Bagley does some of the best Mary Jane and Gwen art ever. His work doesn't -always- do it for me, but he's a solid, dependable, skillful artist who doesn't get enough appreciation. :)

[scorntx]

Oh, Harry...
And just to top everything off, he gets jerked over on the super-powers. His are just a bargain-basement version of his father's, and unlike Peter and Norman, he doesn't miraculously get to come back from death.

... and the stuff with Shaw the Henchman is... who drove the sportscar? How'd it get to Harry? Did Norman tell him all about this super-secret bunker of his then brainwash it away?
And why the hell weren't SHIELD tracking him? Okay, yes, being terrible at their job is their job, but come on! All they had to do was track one teenager.

Oh, and Nick Fury being pointlessly antagonistic. Good going, Nicky.
(Though I do think punching hard enough to dislodge the eyepatch is funny)

And that last issue is Bendis really beginning to go full Bendis on us.

[cyberghostface]

If Harry was also acting as Shaw then Harry was the one who drove the car. Also Harry was probably following a post-hypnotic suggestion to get to the bunker. And most of the reasons for SHIELD to monitor Harry are in hindsight given that prior there was no indication that his DNA had been altered and Norman was in their custody.

[captainbellman]

It's a clever way of incorporating the original Hobgoblin's origin and sense of mystery, at least.

[silverhammerman]

Even here, Harry Osborn remains a far more compelling Goblin than Norman was. I really wish he'd been the one who kept coming back, rather than his boring father.

[mrstatham]

I don't know, I think there's a sense of tragedy to this that there wasn't with say, Gwen's death, that makes me kind-of glad this stuck rather than the on-again, off-again, now he's dead, now he isn't stuff from 616. Granted, it solves none of the problems with Norman, who ideally shouldn't have come back after Legacy, or Ultimate Six at best.