Spoilers For “Ultimate Spider-Man” # 21 follow.
“Ultimate Spider-Man” was happy to reinvent the classic characters. Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man at his average age when he is already married to MJ with two children. The writer Jonathan Hickman also twinned J. Jonah Jameson and an even more food uncle Ben as a journalism team of journalism from Woodward and Bernstein, investigating the corrupt businessman Wilson Fisk / Kingpin.
One of the most radically modified characters was Gwen Stacy. The original Gwen, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, was the first serious girlfriend of Peter, a tsundere who became ingenuous. We remember the most at having died in “The Amazing Spider-Man” # 121 in the hands of the Green Goblin, opening the way to MJ to supplant it. “Ultimate” Gwen is married to Harry Osborn. Gwen directs Oscorp while her husband fights crime as a green goblin; Spider-Man’s partner, not his archnemis as usual. It is only half of that; This Gwen is Mysterio (one of the five), the Casmé member at the Fishbowl illusion of Kingpin’s Sinister Six. In truth, however, Gwen works to Saper Fisk just like Harry and Peter; She is the most ruthless of everyone.
Despite the efforts of certain adaptations of Spider-Man, Gwen’s most famous scene remains his death … and “Ultimate Spider-Man” may have given his point of view.
One of the five mysterious is James Wesley, the apparently faithful right hand of Fisk. In “Ultimate Spider-Man” # 21 (designed by David Messina), Martin Li / Mister Negative, chief of the demon gang and a sixer sinister, kidnaps Wesley to question him. He overflows not only on Fisk, but on Mysterio. The comic strip ends with the demons attacking the rivals of Li, the style of assembly of the baptism of “Godfather”, as a suicide bombs of Wesley washed by the brain, the Mysterio Council. Gwen manages to shout before the fire includes it:
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Gwen Stacy seems to have died in Ultimate Spider-Man
The preview of “Ultimate Spider-Man” # 22 can be read as follows: “The last will and will of [redacted]”On the basis of this end, I think the name expurgated is” Gwen Stacy “. Part of the reading of” Ultimate Spider-Man “was the fear that Peter and Harry will break their friendship and will become enemies like the originals. If Gwen did Dying, then losing his wife could change Harry for the worst. The last issue, however, MJ told Harry that he could Be a good man, involving Gwen’s cream prevents him from becoming one.
But can we even believe what we have seen? Gwen has already simulated Harry’s death (even to the public) with a mysterio illusion. Could it have happened? Or did she somehow survived the explosion? These kinds of cliffhangers, a character in deadly danger where you do not see They die, are generally resolved with surprise survival.
Hickman, Messina and her colleague artist Marco Checketto envelop their “Ultimate Spider-Man” with the number 24, so we will certainly know Gwen’s fate soon. However, as “Ultimate Spider-Man” reaches an end, the bill for its history structure (each issue jumps for a month, reflecting the monthly publication calendar) could be due.
The gaps of time mean that a large part of history in “Ultimate Spider-Man” occurs outside the panel. In this last arc, I questioned time management; We sometimes have the impression that the characters discuss the story more than the story. The number 20 was fully focused on a debriefing conversation between Peter & MJ and Gwen & Harry, and now Peter and MJ barely appear in it. Knowing that we are probably not going to see the immediate The consequences of this cliffhanger also makes it less explosive.
The problems “Ultimate Spider-Man” n ° 1-21 are available, number 22 of versions on October 22.
