Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Volume 4

  After the battle that resulted in the accidental death of his uncle Aaron, Miles Morales' Spider-Man finds himself Public Enemy #1. On his trail is brash investigative reporter Betty Brant, who thinks she has a lead as to just who is behind the new mask of Spider-Man. But her snooping will result in a blast from the Peter Parker Spidey's past when Venom returns!  Believing Miles' father to be Spider-Man, Venom wages war on the Morales family. Sending mom and dad to the hospital, Miles must go on the attack or he'll be the next target on the enemy's hit list. Armed with the assistance of former Parker flames, Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson, Miles will need all the intel and insight he can get in his first ever battle with the symbiote terror!

    It's been a few months since I last returned to the corner of the Ultimate universe. It wasn't because I didn't like the previous 3 volumes of this series. It's that I had to wait a very long time for my queue to pop up at my local library. That's how in demand this series is. 

     There's very little I don't like about the Miles Morales Spider-Man. Brian Michael Bendis gives this version of Spidey just as much care and attention to detail as he did to the Peter Parker incarnation. I know some cannot get over the fact that a Spider-Man is black. But that's never bothered me in the least. 

   My issue with the Morales wall-crawler is that he's so young and tiny. It's evidenced here in the fights scenes against gigantic Venom. In comparison, it looked like the villain could have snapped Morales in half like a twig and used his legs for toothpicks if he'd ever got his hands on the wily hero. Over the course of this series, Miles has inherited Peter's mantle, web-shooters, and powers. Now if he could inherit his muscle. 

   Not short on deft-defying acrobatics or zingers, this Spider-Man is here to stay, as long as a strong guy like Rhino doesn't catch him first!

  Worth Consuming
  
   Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.