{"id":4868,"date":"2015-01-13T20:54:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T02:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2015-09-29T17:45:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T23:45:22","slug":"miles-morales-ultimate-spider-man-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=4868","title":{"rendered":"Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man &#8211; Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/51sHdZFm72L.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4871\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/51sHdZFm72L-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"51sHdZFm72L\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/51sHdZFm72L-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/51sHdZFm72L.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>As of <a title=\"Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man Volume 1 - Revival by Brian Michael Bendis, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Miles-Morales-Ultimate-Spider-Man-Revival\/dp\/0785154175\/\" target=\"_blank\">Revival<\/a>, I&#8217;m current on the Ultimate universe again, at least as it is released in collected formats rather than monthly. I hate to go all mysterious, but I also hate spoilers, so my review will consist of a short, open letter to Ralph Macchio or Stan Lee or whoever is in charge these days, and if you choose to read very much between the lines at all, you&#8217;ll be able to tell what I&#8217;m talking about and have your review, and if not, you&#8217;ll avoid your spoilers. In any case, I hasten to assure you that Bendis is still writing this series, and he&#8217;s still doing a great job, and I&#8217;m still eager to know what happens next. (Seriously, seriously eager.)<\/p>\n<p>Dear Stan Lee or Ralph Macchio or whoever is in charge of Marvel story development these days,<\/p>\n<p>You guys. Seriously. I cannot really take this anymore. I was <a title=\"My review of Ultimate Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man Prelude\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3095\" target=\"_blank\">unhappy<\/a> when I learned the news in the first place, skeptical for a good long time thereafter, and only fairly recently have I <a title=\"My review of Spider-Men\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3988\" target=\"_blank\">come to terms<\/a> with what you did. It was a big, bold, ballsy move, and it has paid off in more ways than I would have guessed back when I first knew it was coming.<\/p>\n<p>I can imagine myself coming to terms with this too, not least because it gives me back what I want. But it&#8217;s not fair to the new guy that has been developing so nicely, and it&#8217;s also maybe not fair to the creation you&#8217;ve all been developing for the past 15 years now. I&#8217;m just saying, be careful.<\/p>\n<p>No, that&#8217;s not true. That&#8217;s the least part of what I&#8217;m saying. What I&#8217;m <em>really<\/em> saying is this: pick a side. Stop fucking with me. I want clear answers, and I want to feel reassured that they&#8217;re really the real answers, and I know goddamn well that&#8217;s a ridiculous thing to expect from the comics industry, particularly around this kind of story development. Nevertheless, I can&#8217;t really take it anymore, and there we are.<\/p>\n<p>You should know, though, that (like I told my so-called audience a few paragraphs up before the letter started) I did like the book, and I do desperately want to know how things turn out. Just because I&#8217;m roller-coastered out doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t <em>want<\/em> more. Also, holy shit with how cool J. Jonah Jameson was. It&#8217;s been a while since my jaw dropped reading one of your books. (And almost always because of Bendis. Hold onto that kid, okay?)<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nThe guy that runs this blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of Revival, I&#8217;m current on the Ultimate universe again, at least as it is released in collected formats rather than monthly. I hate to go all mysterious, but I also hate spoilers, so my review will consist of a short, open letter to Ralph Macchio or Stan Lee or whoever is in charge these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,38,22,40],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-graphic-novel","tag-marvel","tag-superheroes","tag-ultimate-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","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=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5217,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/5217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}