Ultimate Spider-Man #16.1 Review

I have been dipping in and out of this series for a while now. Whenever I pick up an issue I always think "why the hell did I drop this". This point one issue has made that point even clearer. Miles Morales in such a great character, and a very suitable Spider-Man. However, he hardly features in this book, so what makes this issue so great?

This story follows the journalist Becky Brant as she stumbles across the identity of wall crawler after watching footage of the fight that broke out between Miles and his Uncle Aaron. It turns out she actually thinks that Spider-Man is Miles' father, which is something we do not discover until later on in the issue.

What I really enjoyed in this issue was the way Becky went about finding solid proof for her story. The pages that followed showed how a hungry journalist works, and the lengths that they are willing to go to to find a story. When she finally got all her evidence, she was once again rejected by Jonah as he did not feel that the story was in the public interest. The final panel sees her getting possibly killed by a certain Spidey favourite.

This book was great and really was utilised well as a point one jumping on point for new readers. The art once again was amazing, which has been a constant throughout this series. Some of the splash pages were tremendous, especially the one that saw Becky searching Uncle Aaron's old apartment. Personally I haven't seen anything like that before which made it a joy to view. The level of consistency that this book has is on a completely different level to most books out there. So go on jump on. I doubt you will be getting off any time soon.

Rating: 9 / 10