Ultimate Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends

[cyberghostface]

#118...







The Human Torch and Iceman both end up visiting Midtown High around the same time.



It turns out Iceman has a letter from Wolverine to Kitty.



At the bonfire, however, Liz begins to act strange.





#119...



Johnny Storm is called away by the Fantastic Four.







I really loved this Kong moment when I first read it. It's what I had been waiting for since he figured it out way back in #14.







#120...

Liz manages to get home and asks her mother what's going on with her. Liz's mother tells her that the man she thought was her uncle Frank was in fact her father, and that he was aligned with the Brotherhood of Mutants. Liz asks if he was a terrorist.









Liz comes over to MJ's house. The two talk and Liz asks what happened to Harry.



Iceman arrives and asks Liz to come with him to Xavier's school where they can help her deal with her powers.



We flash back several years ago to the Savage Land. The Blob tells Magneto he met up with a former fling from when he worked at a freak show and that she has a kid.



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#122...

Comments

[michaelsaint]

These posts just remind me how much I miss Ultimate Peter Parker.

Also, that scene with Kenny on the beach always kills me!

"Boy, I wish someone would go tell Spider-man to help out his lifelong friend who's going through some majorness that, like, only he could help her deal with!"

ROFL every time.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

I feel like the speechless panel should have been before "I wonder if they did it," rather than after.

[scorntx]

Ah, the debut of Ultimate Firestar!
... and of course, Liz Allen went on to do pretty much nothing ever again.
(There's an interesting bit where they mention her powers might just have been flame-based because she was near Johnny, and that if she'd been nearer Bobby, it might've been ice-based.
That would've been pretty neat if they'd explored that... maybe find some other classical element-based mutants, see what happens... like that geomancer from the old 80s/90s Genosha storyline...)

-"But I do have a life"-
No, you don't, Peter.
No, you don't.

Also, Magneto trying to sound all lofty and noble and crap, and it just fails utterly because rather than regular Magneto, this is Ultimate "kneecap my own son" Magneto. Mr "reprogram Sentinels to level Washington" Lensherr. The man who hit a teenaged girl with a chair for not joining him.

... and he really looks like he's just wearing casual-wear with that outfit. Like when he's sitting around in his flying fortress thingy, he's just wearing an old sweater with the helmet and cape.
And then goes rushing out to retrieve Liz without stopping to change out of the moth-eaten sweater Charles bought him that one time.

-"his ideals are selfish and, well, just damn mean"-
... That's the best counter-argument you can come up with, Jean?
I thought you lived at a school.
Or has the debate team not moved past arguing with strawmen yet?
For goodness sake, Magneto's done a metric crap-ton of horrible stuff, why aren't they pointing this out?

-"just like you did, James."-
Huh. Ult!Magneto knew Ult!Wolverine's name.
Was that pre-established, or was it planning ahead for the nonsense that was Ultimate Origin?

The one with Shocker...
It is kind of a shame we never saw him again, because... well, that's a lot of character development for one issue.
Might've been nice to see what happened to him after.

[cyberghostface]

... and of course, Liz Allen went on to do pretty much nothing ever again.

Well she appeared a few times in the X-titles (such as the 'Whatever Happened to Liz Allan' issue that introduced her brother) but this was nearing the death knell of the UU with Ultimatum and Death of Spider-Man right around the corner.

For goodness sake, Magneto's done a metric crap-ton of horrible stuff, why aren't they pointing this out?

It had already been established that he's a mutant terrorist who killed humans. And he could just point out how a lot of his actions are reprisals against human antagonism towards mutants like death-robots murdering mutants in the streets.

Might've been nice to see what happened to him after.

I agree but I thought this was a decent way to end his character given that he was basically a gag prior to this issue. Short of reforming I don't know what else Bendis could do with him that wasn't a retread of this.

[scorntx]

(I wouldn't have said Death of Spider-Man was right around the corner. There was a good year or so between Ultimatum and it.)

She appeared in Ultimate X-Men... and did absolutely nothing (outside of asking Jean Grey a question one time).
Then she was in Ultimate X, where she did pretty much nothing.

Then she was in Ultimate Hawkeye. Then Ultimate X-Men.
And how much did she contribute to those events?

It's kind of a shame. Bendis had obviously planned out Liz being a mutant ahead of time, and the other writers just did jack-all with it.

[burkeonthesly]

I very much like that the trend in recent years has been moving away from "hero maintains an identity completely secret from loved ones, suffers in the spandex closet" to "hero confides in trusted friends, gains a support structure of friends/family who are in on it." I think maybe Daredevil may have done it first (to the extent that Matt ever has a support structure), but I feel like it didn't really become the thing to do until Buffy. Thoughts?

[philippos42]

Stormy, what are you wearing? Not you, Johnny, other Storm--Ororo. What even is that outfit?

Oh, wait, look who I'm talking to. Never mind.