Luckily this book . . and the rest of the Ultimate Universe . . is free from the influence of the Secret Invasion. We don't have to worry about any shape-changing Skrulls here. However, we do have to worry about the March on Ultimatum story-line that's begun to unravel in the Secret Origins mini-series. I'm already starting to feel some of those affects here. This issue takes place before the Ultimates3 story-line. So when the Ultimates come to Peter's rescue . . after he's been possessed by the Venom symbiote . . are they the real Ultimates, or the robot duplicates that we find out that Ultron has replaced them with? And when Nick Fury helps Peter . . after he finds out that it's really Peter within the monster tearing up mid-town . . is he being altruistic, or does he just feel guilty because his parents got killed doing experiments for him way back when? After his parents got killed and Nick picks up the recently orphaned child, Peter . . you can just tell that he feels guilty and is going to have to look out for him for the rest of his life. Anyways, over all I really enjoyed this issue. Nick frees Peter from the symbiote's influence and naively believes that he's going to be able to contain the threat. Yeah . . they can hold the symbiote, but they lose track of Eddie Brock. Overall I enjoyed Brian Bendis' story. And I'm really enjoying Stuart Immonen's pencils on this series. I've always enjoyed the feel of this book. Now . . it's just changed a little bit. Although I am worried about the add the shows the tombstone broken in half. It's dated 2000-2008, and says "For what they've done, they will have to pay the ultimate price." I believe that's a quote from Magneto about the end of the Ultimate Universe. It all sounds rather ominous to me. But hopefully, it just means that the current status-quo of the Ultimate Universe is ending . . and not the actual Universe. Change is good . . but not annihilation. I guess we'll find out soon enough.
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