{"id":1185,"date":"2009-06-30T04:03:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T10:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2009-12-28T04:07:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T10:07:53","slug":"ultimate-spider-man-superstars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=1185","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Spider-Man: Superstars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have to admit this, right up front.\u00a0Superstars<\/a> tricked me. Despite the disclaimer around the initial two-issue arc that the writer knew full well it was over the top and not to be taken seriously, when I saw Peter Parker and Wolverine in the middle of a Freaky Friday knockoff, I rolled my eyes hard and internally kvetched about how this kind of thing is exactly why\u00a0the Ultimate Marvel Team-Up series<\/a> was mostly flawed, despite its quality moments.<\/p>\n

But, okay, there\u00a0were<\/em> the disclaimers.\u00a0But after that, the additional two arcs featuring first the Human Torch and then Doctor Strange meant more bad times, yeah? In fact, no! Instead, the first story introduces the\u00a0canonical<\/em> Ultimate Fantastic Four into crossover territory and gives Peter a chance to recover from the emotional wounds inflicted in\u00a0Carnage<\/a>. And the second story, well\u2026 I don\u2019t like to say more because of spoilers, but it\u00a0is<\/em> a Spider-Man book, so you can probably guess.<\/p>\n

The shorter version of all this is, you can still trust Brian Michael Bendis to write some of the best comic on the market. Even his fluff-piece breaks are still entertaining and\u00a0verging on\u00a0excellent in their own rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to admit this, right up front.\u00a0Superstars tricked me. Despite the disclaimer around the initial two-issue arc that the writer knew full well it was over the top and not to be taken seriously, when I saw Peter Parker and Wolverine in the middle of a Freaky Friday knockoff, I rolled my eyes hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[123,345,346,17,347,38,348,349,65,22,350],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-brian-michael-bendis","tag-crossover","tag-eye-rolling","tag-graphic-novel","tag-internal-kvetching","tag-marvel","tag-over-the-top-and-not-to-be-taken-seriously","tag-spiderma","tag-spiderman","tag-superheroes","tag-wolverine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}