Man, I can't believe there's only a couple of issues left of this book. That Sucks! I love this book. This is easily the best Spider-man book on the shelves right now. During the Avengers #50 blog I was talking about Brian Bendis' use of character development and interaction. Well . . he's got it in spades here. We have really come to love all the characters in this book. They all seem to have such depth and emotion. This issue Aunt May is separated from Peter. Spider-girl shows up to save her. I think she's Peter's clone. But anyways, Aunt May is distraught because she doesn't know where Peter is and she's asking Spider-girl to help her. You can just feel the emotion and anguish of her plea. Also Jonah is repentant about the way he's treated Spider-man over the last few years because he's witnessed his heroism. When the wave hit, and the city was engulfed in water, everybody was running for their lives, trying to get away from the water. But he witnessed Spider-man jumping into the water and searching for people so he could pull them out . . drag them to safety. This has caused Jonah to completely re-think his view of Spider-man. And finally, while out there trying to save lives, Peter comes across the Hulk. He tries to reason with him, and it seems as if he does. He's actually got the Hulk helping him with rescues. But then the Hulk calms down enough that he reverts to Bruce. When Bruce sees all the damage he assumes that it's his fault. This causes him to panic and freak-out, and . . we've got the mad Hulk again. As the Hulk tries to smash him, Peter thinks "Okay, it's officially the bestest day ever!! With a mood swing this insane it's amazing I never dated him." This issue ends when Peter comes across Dr Strange's house. There's a cab that busted through the window at the top of the house. "Not only is this just in general a horrible thing: cab through a roof. But didn't that window seal, like, keep all his magic and demons and all the other things he's in charge of . . . safely tucked . . away?" But his question is answered as he watches all sorts of demons and monsters escaping into the New York horizon. This Ultimatum is a fantastic story-line, but . . I can't believe they're dooming this Universe. Say it isn't so! Please! Anyways, I also want to give a hats off to Stuart Immonen who has done a fantastic job since he's come to this series. Really incredible stuff. Thanks.
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