Back in the day (I'm old), Marvel used to have a bunch of Spider-Man titles. He is their premium character, right? So it makes sense to load the market with his books. The early 90's had The Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Spectacular Spider-Man, and Web of Spider-Man. I was a kid so I don't remember if all the titles were out at the same time...but basically every week you could read a Spider-Man book and if you didn't like one writer or one artist you could just pick the one book you enjoyed. DC realizes this earth-shattering idea and has a slew of Batman books out. Every week you can read one. Batman, Batman, Inc., Batman & Robin (Robin is dead...but the book is still being published), Detective Comics, The Dark Knight. DC is smart. Marvel has a few Spider-Man titles...but one is a team-up book (that doesn't count) and the other one has a black kid as Spider-Man. That leaves one...ONE...Spider-Man title. And Peter Parker is dead and Dr. Octopus is Spider-Man now. So that doesn't even really count. Marvel...what the fuck? You have one of comic's best characters. Why aren't there more Spider-Man books?Rant finished. The Superior Spider-Man #9 has Doc Ock finally getting rid of Peter Parker in his head once and for all. That apparently means in twenty years Doc Ock will still be in Parker's body and still be Spider-Man. I doubt that...but it'd be very funny. I do enjoy Superior Spider-Man but this issue was just beating a dead horse. Parker "died" in, what? December? He "dies" again. Eh. I miss Parker, The Daily Bugle, etc. Some things you probably shouldn't change. As for Ultimate...#22 is the best issue yet. This is an alternate universe Spider-Man: Miles Morales, black teen. His mom is killed by Venom and it's heart-renching stuff. Go Bendis. Good art, too, by Sarah Pichelli.
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #9 **
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #22 ***1/2
