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Jonathan Hickman reflects on the emotional end of Ultimate Spider-Man and the "gutsy" movie of Marvel closing a hit universe anyway
Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man is ending at its peak — and Jonathan Hickman explains why that’s exactly the point
Much like being a football and soccer fanatic, being a Spider-Man comic book reader is an emotional experience. There is a cyclical sense of rebirth and loss, of triumph and heartbreak, that's experienced en masse with other fans. Nowhere else has this been more apparent than in the journey that Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto's Ultimate Spider-Man has taken.
First announced as part of Marvel Comics' fresh revamp of the Ultimate Universe, Hickman and Checchetto's Ultimate Spider-Man takes place in an alternate universe where Peter Parker is middle-aged, married with kids to his beloved Mary Jane, and still manages to find time as Spider-Man. It's an interpretation of the character that so many Spider-Man fans have longed for ever since the days of the infamous Spider-Man: One More Day storyline from 2007 that broke up Peter and MJ's marriage for good.
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