Ultimate FF 5

Aaahhhhhhhh, you guys! I was in such a rush earlier today to get the books out that I entirely skipped one, even though I'd read it and honestly thought out my review for it a little bit. Ah well, you live and learn. Let's shine a light, then on ULTIMATE FF 5. For all the good that will do it (spoilers).

Ultimate FF 5
Fialkov (w) and Araújo (a) and Rosenberg (c) and Sabino (l)

I'm going to come clean here: despite my insistence on reviewing this book for completist sake, I have a feeling I did not read the last issue of this because BOY did none of this make any sense to me. On top of that, this is a particularly bad issue to come into without having read its predecessor. Miles Morhames, the new Spider-Pig of a different universe is talking to the Ultimate FF and there are a number of other similarly punny animals intersecting with this universe and WHAT IS HAPPENING and you know what, this is, I believe, the penultimate issue of this cancelled series and it's series writer Josh Fialkov's final issue because he got sick at one point and this series isn't really good anyway so WHATEVER. Just imagine that I'm tucking you into bed, kissing each of you on the forehead, and saying "oh sweet baby, no reason to worry about that mean old ULTIMATE FF, it doesn't even matter and it'll be gone by the time you wake up." Total Score: Feels unfair to rate this one without having read the arc and after excusing you from reading it. Still though, I'm a professional so...2/5?

Marvel's "Next Big Thing" Announced: SPIDER-VERSE

Hey everyone. Quick word as news just broke on this yesterday after a teaser image last Friday. Marvel has announced in one of their "Next Big Thing" press calls that one of the next big events will be the SPIDER-VERSE, a coming-together of every Spider-Man-ish creature created by Marvel, not to mention a few that haven't yet been created. That's right; everyone from Spider-Man 2099 to Noir Spider-Man to Spider-Ham and so on and so forth will join forces with (or face off against, as it's being teased) Peter Parker's Spider-Man.

It's still a ways out so details are a little sparse but the event will be headed by Dan Slott, of course, and Olivier Coipel, probably best known for his work on THOR. Slott and Spider-Man group editor Nick Lowe have also confirmed that the initial villain of the series will be Morlun, a Spidey villain created back in 2001 and responsible for actually killing Spider-Man (he was later reborn thanks to SPIDER-LORE and suddenly had more spider-like attributes to him including organic web-shooters, just like in the movie that was released TOTALLY COINCIDENTALLY right around that time). More details on this one as they emerge. So, you know, over the next eight months. But for now, just check out that promo image and think about, even if it's perhaps a little gimmicky, how cool this could be.