For Spider-man fans it’s a good time to be alive. In 2014 alone Spider-man has already had over a dozen comic series centered around him, Marvel has an event focusing on Spider-man releasing in November entitled “Spider-verse”. He’s swung from the pages of comics to the big screen, his animated series, “Ultimate Spider-man” will be starting it’s third season this year, and, last week he made his debut in the world of Infinite Comics with “Amazing Spider-man: Who Am I?”, written by Joshua Hale Fialkov, and Dan Slott. Order is quickly restoring in the world of the web head, as the highly acclaimed, and even more highly controversial, “Superior Spider-man”, series, [...]

The Ultimate Universe in Marvel has been my bread and butter since I was first introduced into comic books in 2005/2006. The series started in 2000 with Ultimate Spider-Man written by Brian Michael Bendis and has followed with some of the best comic books/graphic novels I’ve ever come across, e.g. Ultimates (anything but 3 or written by Jeph Loeb).  As we reach the latter half of 2013, the series goes strong under the Ultimate Comics moniker and titles including Ultimates, Spider-Man, and X-Men. All three are solid on-going series that exist within the same contained universe, a modern day Earth. This was the premise when it was designed and still manages to reintroduce characters in [...]