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Ultimate Spider-Man #24 – The End Of Great Responsibility? (Spoilers)

Ultimate Spider-Man #24 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto - a change for great power, great responsibility? (Spoilers)



Article Summary

  • Ultimate Spider-Man #24 delivers an extra-long finale by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto
  • Peter Parker faces the consequences of balancing family life and superhero responsibility in this universe
  • Classic Spider-Man themes are questioned regardinng the classic tragic origin
  • The issue sets up the next chapter for Ultimate Spider-Man in the upcoming Ultimate Endgame event

Tomorrow sees the extra-long finale of Ultimate Spider-Man #24 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto, set in "2026" – less specific than other issues in the line, since it went a little late. And maybe that's just the last bit of it. But how does it end? Where will it go?

Ultimate Spider-Man #24 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto
Ultimate Spider-Man #24 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto

Will the Kingpin and Mister Negative, remnants of The Makers Council, cope with the Mysterio rivalry, of which Gwen Stacy is one? Will this Peter Parker actually learn the lesson that with great power there must come great responsibility? And that his irresponsible choice to take on his powers as a married man with a wife and kids, played as a midlife crisis, might have consequences?

Ultimate Spider-Man #24 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto
Ultimate Spider-Man #24 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto

The Kingpin certainly seems to think so. But the Kingpin thinks a alot of things…

Ultimate Spider-Man #24 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto
Ultimate Spider-Man #24 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto

Maybe this is just the wrong Universe for that. Another Spider-Man writer told me that previously, when new Spider-Men were introduced, they all had to have personal tragedies that led to their Spider-status, everyone had to have an Uncle Ben in one form or another to inspire their decisions and their actions. But that the Spider-Verse movies saw Spider-Men with different backgrounds, not all with such tragedies, which seeped back into the comic books and so the rule was lifted. And maybe Ultimate Spider-Man is an example of that evolution…

Ultimate Spider-Man #24 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto
Ultimate Spider-Man #24 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto

Do it anyway… Ultimate Spider-Man #24 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto with a lot more to it than that is published tomorrow. With Ultimate Spider-Man playing his part in Ultimate Endgamne to follow… until it does end.

  • ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #24
    JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) • MARCO CHECCHETTO (A/C)
    VARIANT COVER BY TBA • VARIANT COVER BY TBA
    VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY TBA • HEROES VARIANT COVER BY TBA
    VILLAINS VARIANT COVER BY TBA • ULTIMATE FINALE VARIANT COVER BY TBA
    THE END OF THE LINE!
    • This is it, folks – the last you'll see of Spidey and his Ultimate friends by Jonathan Hickman & Marco Checchetto!
    • That's all we can tell you!
    40 PGS./Rated T …$5.99

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of comic books The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne and Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from The Union Club on Greek Street, shops at Gosh, Piranha and Forbidden Planet. Father of two daughters, Amazon associate, political cartoonist.
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