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Ultimate Spiderman issues 14-32

This shit's getting good. [spoiler] Kraven was a funny pushover and Doc Ock was really cool. I liked Spiderman's conflict with him and the resolution of that plot. It was also intresting to see how Peter Parker became a bad person in his everyday life due to needing to save people as Spiderman. Also, Gwen Stacy is.... different. I haven't read original Gwen Stacy but I have seen the Amazing Spiderman movie version of her and damn that's a difference.

Green Goblin storyline is what a good superhero story should involve, something realting to the confrontation of the origin of the hero and an epic fight scene to boot. Green Goblin was awesome, the transformation, the fear, SHIELD's involvement was okay but everything else was spot on.

Public Scrutiny was okay, more BS SHIELD stuff, and the fake spiderman was okay, but I felt it was more about resolving personal issues of the characters. Mary Jane's breaking up with Peter, Gwen having to deal with her distressed family and living at Peter's, its all very character focused. The best part was the Rhino showing up in the first part but stupid ass Ultimate Iron Man stopped him. [/spoilers]

Clone Saga part 1
Mind you, this is my first venture into the mainstream Marvel universe and its Spiderman, so my opinons might be biased coming from Ultimate and being a comic newbie.

This was an okay story so far but was a good origin story for the Scarlet Spider.
Ben Reiliy is fucking whiny as shit. He sits around and mopes "Wahh wahh, I'm the clone, and all of my memories are fake wahh wahh" GO OUT AND MAKE YOUR OWN MEMORIES THEN, YOU WHINY BABY. I've seen Linkara's review of Power and Responsibility, and I don't hate Judas Traveller as much as everyone else does. I saw him as more of a catalyst of Ben Reiliy becoming the Scarlet Spider.

The best part of the book came at the end, when Scarlet Spider was kicking Venom's ass. Hell yeah, even though I haven't been dis-proven that Ben Reiliy is whiny, he still kicks ass and takes names.

Maximum Carnage

Holy shit, this blew probably every Spiderman story arc I have read so far out of the water. Everything was near perfection. The escalation of conflict, the story, the themes, action, revelations, it all came together into one well done package.

I read the preface at the beginning of this collection saying how the main author wanted to address the gray morals with consideration for repercutions or feelings in comics at the time and this nailed it perfectly. Spiderman's interaction with other characters showed the differing ideologies that people were willing to use in order to either save or hurt people. Peter's dad offering negative remarks about humanity really goes to why some people always look at the negatives and almost convinces Spiderman to kill Carnage (Although I found out in the Clone Saga that his parents were fake so that was pointless)

The lingering question of what to do with Cletus Kasady is always looming over the story's head with everybody making good points about the decision of what to do.

Venom was my favorite character in this book because he seemed to be the most rational, as he wanted to stop the killing of innocents by killing the Carnage symbiote and kasady. Plus, he kicked ass as usual.