{"id":484,"date":"2008-08-10T09:49:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=484"},"modified":"2008-08-10T09:49:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T15:49:19","slug":"ultimate-spider-man-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Spider-Man: Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In fact, I started a completely different book than this, but I accidentally left it at home and then vanished for the weekend. In addition to being so far behind, I&#8217;m definitely finding that the mixing around of these books has contributed to my inability to review things at all well right now. I certainly hope this doesn&#8217;t happen again, but my work schedule being so non-conducive to internet activities is a thing that will be mostly over now. (Downside: I certainly can&#8217;t <em>write<\/em> reviews at work anymore, as I&#8217;m way too damn busy. This has both positives and negatives, one latter of which has been clearly demonstrated today.)<\/p>\n<p>So, anyway, in <a title=\"Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 4: Legacy by Brian Michael Bendis, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ultimate-Spider-Man-Vol-4-Legacy\/dp\/0785109684\/\" target=\"_blank\">Legacy<\/a>, Spider-Man discovers that his arch-enemy, the Green Goblin, is still alive. And awesome things happen, in the realm of fightings and psychological warfare and unexpected revelations about Peter&#8217;s place in the larger world and potential romantic triangles. Thinking about it now, it feels like a set-up book that will have long-term repercussions for the development of the series, but at the time, it felt like action-filled comic mayhem. Which is to say, it did both things, and did them both well. How many books in the middle of a series can say <em>that<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fact, I started a completely different book than this, but I accidentally left it at home and then vanished for the weekend. In addition to being so far behind, I&#8217;m definitely finding that the mixing around of these books has contributed to my inability to review things at all well right now. I certainly [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","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=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}