Ultimate Spider-man #120 - Marvel

This continues to be a fantastic book, month after month. Which really, is no surprise considering it's been that way since it's inception . . . 120 issues ago. We ended last issue with Spidey, Bobby, and Fire-star . . er, I mean Liz Allen . . face to face with Magneto. Magneto wants her to join his group, the Brotherhood, and Peter and Bobby want . . . well, anything except that. It turns out that in the Ultimate Universe, that Franklin, the Blob, is her father. Apparently when he was travelling around with the Carnival, on one of his trips in to town, he hooked up with Liz's mother when she was younger. I'm not exactly sure what the attraction was, but apparently there was some because they bumped uglies and Liz was the product of their relationship. After a while, Liz has Magneto getting in her face to join the Brotherhood . . to come and see her father, and Pete and Bobby are in her face to join the X-Men. The problem is, to her, it sounds like everyone is telling her what to do, but nobody is asking her what she wants to do. She already is confused. The last thing she ever thought would happen would be her turning out to be a mutant. So after everybody disperses, Liz takes off and ends up in Mary Jane's backyard to talk to her. Of course Peter knows where she's going, and after a little while he shows up to offer some words of encouragement. But it's all empty promises to her, until Peter takes off his mask and shows her who he is. Then everything starts to make sense to her. It's then that his words start to take on a little more meaning to her. I think she's going to do the right thing and give the X-Men a try. Brian Bendis and Stuart Immonen are doing an excellent job with this book. It really hasn't missed a beat, with the creative change. This book continues to be the benchmark for the rest of the Ultimate Universe to live up to.