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Ultimate Spider-man 73 (TPB #13)
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Art: Scott Hanna and JD Smith
The Hobgoblin story continues as James Franco, I mean, Harry Osborn, finds out more about his past and his father. I like how the Ultimate series find ways to spin things up a bit. From Colossus being gay in X-men to how the Goblin in Spider-man is basically the Hulk. It keeps things fresh. I’ve also noticed that Ultimate Spider-man makes a conscious effort to relate to real life-ish. In this issue specifically it brings up the question of what if you found out your father was a mass-murdering mutated monster? Y’know, just like what could happen in real life.
I have a feeling that’d be a pretty tough pill to swallow. I can only hope that never happens. Given that my dad works with building products, I’m assuming that’s a pretty safe bet, but I can only imagine. It’s easy to say we wouldn’t act like Harry Osborn, pit on revenge on Peter Parker and other folks despite his dad clearly being in the wrong, but would it be so easy to act that way? With all things considered, would you really be able to put aside that its your friend and trust Samuel Jackson, I mean, Nick Fury instead?
That’s one thing that always annoyed me while watching the Spider-man movies — it was like, why can’t you see the truth that Spider-man didn’t kill your dad!? He eventually may or may not come to that realization in Spider-man 3, but that’s too late and too far past when the series was actually good to matter.
I may have talked about this before how I tend to get really mad at characters in fictional medias, and comics are by no means excluded. I know that’s a tactic by the author, but do you need to send me into a stress-induced heart attack every time!
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