{"id":1351,"date":"2009-12-21T00:41:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T06:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2009-12-29T00:42:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T06:42:19","slug":"ultimate-spider-man-clone-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Spider-Man: Clone Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I thought I could get away with it, the entirety of my review would be \u201cHoly shit.\u201d Because, in contravention of every reasonable expectation I could have had,\u00a0<a title=\"Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 17: Clone Saga by Brian Michael Bendis, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ultimate-Spider-Man-Vol-17-Clone\/dp\/0785119280\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clone Saga<\/a> did not merely maintain the high standards that I have, despite myself, come to expect from the Ultimate Spider-Man series; it surpassed them in every way. Everything else that it crosses my mind to say is, although probably accurate for me as a reader,\u00a0<em>actually<\/em> too hyperbolic to put on a page. Suffice it to say, I wish I could do a targeted mindwipe of the book, so I could read it again for the first time, Right Now.<\/p>\n<p>It is my understanding (in fact, there\u2019s an entire introduction discussing it) that this revisits yet another long-celebrated moment in the original Spider-Man continuity. As such, I look forward to it, but I\u2019m glad there will be so many differences, because if it was very similar beyond the essential clone concept, I would be doomed to disappointment. But, okay: in thumbnail, Spider-Man fights the Scorpion at the mall, only to discover that the man inside the suit is Peter Parker! In the aftermath of that stunning moment in the real Peter\u2019s life, Mary Jane gets kidnapped by\u2026 but that would be telling; and Nick Fury declares war on Spider-Man, a move that could well be his biggest mistake. And honestly, I\u2019m barely scratching the surface.<\/p>\n<p>And, I know I\u2019ve said this before, but, my God, Aunt May. Simply amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I thought I could get away with it, the entirety of my review would be \u201cHoly shit.\u201d Because, in contravention of every reasonable expectation I could have had,\u00a0Clone Saga did not merely maintain the high standards that I have, despite myself, come to expect from the Ultimate Spider-Man series; it surpassed them in every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,38,40],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-graphic-novel","tag-marvel","tag-ultimate-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}