Ultimate Spider-Man #1: Power and Responsibility by Bill Jemas and Brian Michael Bendis

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Ultimate Spider-Man #1: Power and Responsibility
by Bill Jemas and Brian Michael Bendis

This collects issues #1-7.

I've been wanting to properly work through Bendis' Ultimate Spider-Man series for a while now, so I made it a 101 Things in 1001 Days goal to start and put the first volume on hold after not being able to find it in the library for a while. My hold came in faster than expected, so I'm starting on this goal a little earlier than anticipated.

The first volume of the series starts similarly to most Spider-Man storylines, but with its own spin. Their Spider-Man is geeky and self-conscious and uncertain and, honestly, your typical teenager. He insists on pizza for dinner. He dances around in his underwear when he invents web shooters. He is so terrified during his first big fight that he cracks a joke to keep his emotions in check and, there's the beginning of his wise-cracking ways.

I loved getting to see this Peter from the start--getting picked on, getting bitten by the spider, fighting the Green Goblin for the first time, and catching the eye of J. Jonah Jameson. Fun, bright art but the same heartbreaking storyline where Peter finds out the hard way that with great power comes great responsibility.