First off, I love the Ultimate Spider-man universe that Bendis has created, this version of Peter Parker was awesome and I'm really sad to see that he is no longer in the book (although we still have his female clone running around in Shield, so that'll be fun), it'll be interesting to see how he influences the new Spidey. Review. I had a lot of fun with this book. It's not nearly as slow a burn as the original Ultimate Spider-man, we are introduced to his family and a few of the inner working right off the bat, and the ground work for some fun conflicts later in the series are shown. I enjoyed the story well enough, I do however wish we had had a bit more time setting up the new cast before the bite happened as now when we are introduced to his friends we are only going to know how he talks to them post-I have a secret now as opposed to an unpowered Miles. I guess my biggest complaint with the story is that I didn't really understand Miles' motivations, everything just seemed to be happening to him and he didn't have much say in the matter. I guess I also missed the thought balloons/captions, I wonder if we aren't getting them because it's all happening in the past and we are just viewing it, instead of 'living' in the moment with the main character. The art by Sara Pichelli in this was great, I love the lines and the colours by Justin Ponsor only make it better. There were a few panels during the scenes with Osborn (pages 2&3) that I wasn't the fondest of, Normans face was kind of stuck in this evil grin and didn't change, sure it was unsettling, but I just felt that it didn't really fit what he was saying, the next few pages though, great. The background textures and colouring were right on the money (except for the debris scattered around on the carpet be the unconscious Miles), really helped the characters and scenes pop out. I'm on board for the next issue, can't wait. Luke Batt.