Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man: Ultimate Collection, Book 2

Brian Michael Bendis

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This is a solid entry, but I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as the Ultimate Collection Volume 1, which gives Miles’s origin story, has a great storyline with his uncle Aaron Davis, and has a really fun universe-crossover with Peter Parker-Spiderman.

The best thing about this volume is that it has the Venom symbiote. I watched a lot of the Spider-Man cartoon show after school as a kid, and the Venom episodes were always my favorites. It’s just such a creepy and unknowable adversary, and it looks metal as fuck. Unfortunately, in this collection, [spoilers removed]

My Goodreads rating: 3 stars

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