https://prhcomics.com/book/?isbn=75960620796100212
Ultimate Spider-Man 2 is also getting a second print (and this was known for a few days, IIRC it was about a week, before the issue released).
https://prhcomics.com/book/?isbn=75960620796100212
Ultimate Spider-Man 2 is also getting a second print (and this was known for a few days, IIRC it was about a week, before the issue released).
6160 works as a cool what if premise. Sony might do something with it in the future but their Sonyverse is rather slapdash so it's hard to say what exactly.
I don't think it would replace Peter's origin as a teen as the angle gives him a stronger USP than if he was just starting out as an adult hero. 6160 Peter just being referenced or use a variant teen Peter would meet is more likely.
I doubt it would effect the comics anytime soon. Maybe in a decade?
Last edited by the illustrious mr. kenway; 02-21-2024 at 10:30 AM.
It's cool that this book is selling so well, but I doubt it will have a broad effect until or unless Marvel can say, definitively, the status quo in this book is a sales driver and not it being "Ultimate" and "Hickman" driving the sales.
If this was DC, I'd say we'd definitely get an animated movie or two of this iteration of Spidey pretty quickly, but Marvel seems less interested in that kind of thing.
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I dunno a lot about the new Ultimate Spider-Man, since I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. But based on what little I do know, I think what we'll likely see is more of a 'mainstream' push towards an adult, maybe married-to-MJ Peter Parker in the franchise. I don't think the more explicitly AU aspects like Uncle Ben being alive will have much of an impact outside this series. I also don't think we'll ever get a version of Peter who becomes Spider-Man well into his thirties...though I can see us getting versions of Peter who became Spider-Man in college, as was the case with the 90's TAS and the Raimi movies.
I’d say the real shift in perspective we’re likely to see because of Hickman USM and Spiderverse is that a bunch of people are going to grow up thinking it’s natural for Peter to have a daughter with MJ named Mayday who has spider powers of her own (I definitely think that’s the endgame for Hickman). Peter being a dad is something that used to be relegated to obscure alternate realities and now we’re seeing big works (including theatrical movies!) portray him that way. Poor Marvel editorial, it’s only going to get worse for them with how they portray 616 Peter (although given the sales of ASM I doubt they’re that worried).
Yeah she got cemented as “the one” after the Raimi films and Bendis USM. Those two were such defining Spider-Man works for millennials and zoomers that they basically ensured Marvel could not move permanently away from MJ like they wanted to (and still do).
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I can attest to that, as one of those Millennials who grew up with the Raimi films and the Bendis USM. Hell, a Spider-Girl comic was among my earliest Spider-Man comics too, so the idea that Peter and MJ would eventually get married and have a kid in a possible future has long been pretty natural for me.
Considering that the OG Ultimate Spider-Man series from Bendis quickly became a source of influence and inspiration for the first Raimi film a year after the run started and how other recent Spider-Man media have been quick to integrate and pull from other recent successes with the character in other formats (i.e. the Spider-Verse films pulling from two relatively new comic concepts from the early 2010s or NWH drawing a bit of inspiration in Peter's fight choreography in the Insomniac games), I don't think an extended decade-plus run is going to be a mandate.
Hell, I'm not even saying that a live action adaptation would include the broader Earth-6160 elements with the Maker and his Council. Hickman's USM run's central sales pitch about a version of Peter Parker who only becomes Spider-Man in his mid-30's after he's already happily married with kids and a scenario where Uncle Ben is alive and well, while Aunt May has recently passed away is exactly the sort of fresh reinvention on Peter that would be appealing to Sony when the time comes for them to do a new live action Peter film. That could be aways off, as it's likely that we'll see Miles finally debut in live action as Tom Holland wraps up his tenure.
But the fact of the matter is that the young Peter in high school well has been dried up. We all know the Great Power, Great Responsibility origin story. So something as exciting and unique as what Hickman's doing- and so far, to pretty big success for comics today- is an easy and appealing route to go in for the next Peter reboot. Plus it has the added advantage of opening up the door to also pulling ideas and certain narrative concepts from the 616 Marriage era of Spidey comics too.
I think this can be accomplished even without having to go with a radically different status quo. Hell, it can be done with Tom Holland's Peter Parker as well. Just let him grow up and get married to MJ. Or introduce a rebooted version, but show him already established as an adult Spider-Man.
Uncle Ben being alive can be done, but it would push the movie firmly into 'alternate universe' territory, rather than being a variation of the 'canonical' Spider-Man mythos.
Given how much ASM is selling, I can't imagine it'll have too much of an impact.
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