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I think Bendis pretty much felt that the Scorpion hasn't had much coherent characterisation over the years, and he could pretty much take the basic design and do whatever he pleased with it. So he did. And sure enough, no-one seemed to care. I suppose he could have made that clone "The...

Yeah. That damn Spider-Man, actually catching a homicidal maniac. Surely he should have realised preserving the integrity of gutter journalism is more important? Seriously, the only way to make Eddie Brock's motivation work as that is to play him as a total obsessed psycho. And they haven't...

By Ultimates standards he is.

I dunno, I think for once Bendis had his eye on the single issue audience rather than trades. He actually made an effort to make a story which would blow minds on a monthly basis and, if anything, wouldn't work quite as well collected without the monthly gap to go "What in hell is going on?"

New Ultimate-related interview with Bendis and Loeb here, which includes this quote regarding upcoming USM arcs: "BENDIS: [Artist] Mark Bagley’s last arc is called “Ultimate Knights.” It’s a pretty big storyline where Daredevil gathers all these urban characters like Moon Knight, Iron Fist...

Yeah, the key phrase there is people "HE THINKS" deserve to die. Sadly, he's a psychopath, so that tends to let him randomly off prison guards, security guards, civilians, anyone else who is getting in his way. Venom certainly doesn't have a highly developed sense of right and wrong just because...

No-one at all with connections to Marvel has said Venom will be on th Ultimates team, this is strange out-of-nowhere speculation based on that one promo image by Mad of Black Panther punching him. Which, one would think, makes it more likely that he'll be a villain. Which is good, as...

Re: Ultimate Solicitations For March Issue #13 was solicited for December. Currently it's been pushed back to January.

He's got a double sized finale issue (#104), which I suspect will be mostly fight. Next issue will probably be mostly exposition of the plot. Then there's an epilogue issue for any further loose ends. (Mostly Pete's lovelife and Aunt May's heart attack by the sound of it.)

Bagley certainly ran with the fangs, but it was Erik Larsen who really started filling Venom's mouth out...

I like the Gargan Venom thing, it's been handled well so far. Change is good, and the Brock Venom had been so utterly thrashed to death. If Ellis hits a home run in Thunderbolts, hopefully this version of the character will get cemented.

Gwen's already unconscious on the floor while Pete is being led away in the beginning of that preview, so she couldn't really then rescue him as Spider-Woman. Unless there are multiple Gwen clones as well as multiple Peter clones, which would be weird.

Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man is canon.

The MJ/Demogoblin transformation as a hallucination by Kaine: solution or cop-out? Bearing in mind that 616 Kaine was prone to having hallucinations of the worst-case scenario.

Bendis showed the FF having knowledge of the attack on Peter and established that they like Peter and were uncomfortable with him being attacked. Also, they called Fury, so would be feeling guilty. This is enough to rule out a "deus ex machina" accusation. Simply the fact that they have been...