Random Thoughts On... Ultimate Spider-Man Post-Bagley through Ultimatum

I’ve been looking at the blog lately, and I just realized that it’s been along time since I’ve talked about any Spider-Man. Yeah, I may have mentioned him in one post or another, but 2018’s still a long time. Right now, the third MCU Spider-Man movie has been released, and… I haven’t seen it. Yeah, I’m that behind on Spider-Man these days. I still haven’t seen Far From Home, though that could be due to not caring about the Wall-Crawler these days and the fact that it ain’t on Disney Plus. I’ve heard good stuff about No Way Home, so I may see it… someday.

Today, I thought I would return to the world of the pretty defunct Ultimate Universe. A few years ago, I went through an adventure of sorts. I reviewed Ultimate Spider-Man from the beginning to Mark Bagley’s departure from the book. I can safely say that it was an awesome run. Last year, I finally decided to see what the rest of the first run of Ultimate Spider-Man looked like. I started the Bendis/Immonen run and pretty much got to Ultimatum, the event that changed the Ultimate Universe for more ill than good. I actually skipped ahead and read more after that event like Hickman’s Ultimate Avengers.

Today, I’ll just be listing my thoughts on this run of issues. The issues will be Ultimate Spider-Man #112-133, Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #3, and Ultimatum: Spider-Man Requiem. Of course, Brian Michael Bendis is the writer of all of these issues. While Stuart Immonen started his run on the book in #111, he ends up doing his first full issue with #112. Immonen’s been all over the place working on characters like Superman, the X-Men, and many others. Wade von Grawbadger joins the crew as the inker for the book. Grawbadger was one of Immonen’s usual inkers and stays on the book during his duration. The Annual was drawn and inked by David LaFuente, the artist that took over after Ultimatum. Mark Bagley returns to draw some pages in the Requiem mini.

Movie Talk - The Lawnmower Man Movies

So, I was just perusing HBO Max a couple of days ago, and I ended up coming across The Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe’s War on there. I had to sit there and laugh for a couple of seconds because I know this movie has been completely panned. I vaguely remember seeing a trailer for it back in the 90’s (I think it was on the Mortal Kombat VHS) and thought to myself, “That looks interesting.” I was probably also thinking about its predecessor, the Lawnmower Man, which I think I saw at that point. I’m just not sure. All I know is that it aired on NBC one weekend.

The Lawnmower Man was an original screenplay (called “CyberGod”) that took its title from one of Stephen King’s short stories. Other than a weird lawnmower man and death being involved, there is no cyberspace in the original story. Heck, it came out in the 70’s. The screenplay eventually made it to theaters in 1992, and Stephen King didn’t like that his name was on it. He took New Line Cinema to court and actually won the case. The sequel, Jobe’s War or Beyond Cyberspace, was released in 1996. I ended up re-watching The Lawnmower Man Director’s Cut at the hospital after Andy was born. I needed a bit of a break while Liz and Andy were asleep. I just recently saw Jobe’s War on HBO Max.