- Title: Ultimate Spider-Man #8
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- Writer: Jonathan Hickman
- Artist: Marco Checchetto
Ultimate Spider-Man #8 offers a birthday party for the Parker family, allowing some normalcy to bleed through in Peter‘s increasingly complicated life, and serious conversations between heroes and villains building out this world of Spider-Man a bit more. As the cover suggests, we do get Iron Lad filling in Spider-Man and the Green Goblin on the state of the world and Spidey’s importance to it. While Stark and Osborne clash, Peter welcomes any help he can get.
The other piece of the comic worth noting is the Kingpin gathering his sub-bosses from the different New York Burroughs (who are revealed to be Black Cat, Mr. Negative, Kraven, Mysterio, and Mole Man) and offering them the chance to wipe out the super-hero menace before it becomes an even larger problem. It seems like hunting season has begun on Spidey and his amazing friends on the new Ultimate version of the Sinister Six.
[Marvel, $4.99]