Maybe getting Dr. Manhattan as a guest writer was a mistake. "It's 2008. I'm writing issues 123 to 128 of Ultimate Spider-Man. It's 2024. Sal entertains his friends and their audience with my story of Spider-Man and Symbiotes. It's 2035. The ornithology community finally accepts calling vultures 'Necromongers'. A content smile finds its way across my face. I take my ink to the page."
I love that Sal has vocalized multiple times that writers can pretty much do anything that they wants with the characters they are writing, but what Bendis did with doom is “wrong”
I used to have the Ultimate Spider-Man game on PS2 and played it all the time, I loved it. That was always the Venom sequel story, to me, but then this story arc came out. I still like it, but the game’s story will always have a special place in my heart
It is because it messes with that game that I dislike this arc so much. Especially since the retcons of this arc and everything it sets up is just never picked up again.
@@johnnieriot13 yep, I even believe Bendis said on his old message boards the game was the sequel to the Venom arc fans were clamoring for. When this was coming out monthly I thought it was a retelling/sequel to the game.
"Im gonna out you as Spider-man i-if you don't get me my suit back, Parker!" *Grips Eddies shoulder with the proportional strength of a spider* Eddie I had to watch. and LISTEN. To you eat a HORSE. IM ABOUT TO BEAT YOU TO DEATH JUST FOR THAT. Can you IMAGINE what I would do to you if you OUTED MY IDENTITY?!" Thank you Ethan and Ben for that amazing comic visual in my head
It's kind of funny how inescapable Venom is in mainstream Marvel and in Ultimate Spider-Man he and Carnage our disposable villains used to make covers interesting.
It felt like a lot of the Ultimate universe outside the FF were given directives to include stuff that the 616 had decades of and the writers made them perfunctory. It was at its worse in Ultimate X-Men. I remember paying thru a trade UXM and it felt like someone told the writers “boil down Dark Phoenix, Proteus, Shadow King, Sentinels, and Asteroid M into one or two issues a piece and that will just be a year of publishing.” Why not take the chance to make cool new stuff instead.
I gifted this trade to a buddy once, he thought the Gwen Carnage material to be the coolest take on the character until Spider Gwen. Anyways thank you again for the shot of Ultimate Crack Issues can't wait for the next one!
Man we’re close to the end guys this is insane man I don’t know if you’d do it Sal but I’d love for you to do Miles Morales stories considering it does continue on after the Death of Spider-Man they’d be very fun videos
I can just fall down a Comic Pop Back Issues hole at any given time. Been a subscriber since under 50K. I can listen to Sal, Ethan & Ben for hours. Keep up the good work guys (PS- Tiffany as well)
Can't believe Sal actually mentioned the Ultimate Spider-Man game. It was probably one of the best games I've ever play on the OG Xbox. Fortunately you can still play it on PC.
Ultimate Spiderman is always a treat on Back Issues and I was waiting for you guys to get to this story in particular. I'm a sucker for all things symbiotes and Gwen Carnage is super cool! Kind of wish they kept that longer, I would have loved more stories with Gwen as the Carnage symbiote.
Sal, when you do ultimatum, remember to do the 2 requiem issues of Ultimate Spider-Man. They’re the ultimatum aftermath issues that show what ultimate J Jonah Jameson was doing and shows Pete surviving ultimatum.
The old Ultimate Spider-Man with a young Peter Parker, versus the new Ultimate Spider-Man with an old Peter Parker. Who will win!? Both. The answer is both. They’re both awesome.
I remember playing the ultimate Spider-Man game on PS2 never finished it but remember it was a fun game. Also i think Ben is on to something that Eddie has a piece of the simbiote and it got hungry in order to reconstitute itself and restore itself 100% to original form similar or the same as ultimate carnage.
I was just thinking of commenting "More Ultimate Spidey" on this weeks back issue for old times sake, but lo-and-behold, Sal was once again, streets ahead.
35:39 it's not what's familiar but similar. When the suit was introduced, Richard says it has to be made for a specific person and Eddie says the one(s) he made where done with blood from Richard. Peter only gets a bit of the suit on him but it gets fried then he destroys the rest of that batch but Eddie had a second batch made as a control specimen. Both suits are made using Richard's blood so Peter is the closest the suit can get to being with him. Also, when you cover the Ultimatum tie-ins there's two issues not collected as they are part of the Ultimate Requiem series that acts as finales to the three ongoings at the time
Peter’s blood was closest but it wasn’t Richard’s. Eddie’s was vastly different so I imagined he needed to consume other cellular material so the symbiote wouldn’t eat his own. The game made a lot more sense about the “missing piece”. It would have been nice if they just said that Carnage was cloned using a part of Peter’s remaining symbiote and that it was needed to fully support Venom
Oh Sal! I think I can actually help here! Hell yes! So as I read it, back in the carnage story, the reveal is that carnage was made with Parkers blood/DNA. Same with Venom, but venom was unfinished, hence why it craves Peter and affects him psychologically. It feels that it needs Peter to finish its own internal DNA mumbo jumbo. But this is comics so he can never really eat Peter. But you know what he can do? Eat a messed up Peter clone. And the same way it was meant to cure cancer, it finnagles its own sciencey fictioney DNA problems into a more balanced state.
No no. Those flashbacks like with Rhino and the museum are set peices in the game that they recreate here. They even use the same dialogue for the most part. Basically, the whole game happens up to the last act and then the comic overwrites that bit. I don’t expect anyone to remember any of that, I just happen to play through that game like 3 times a year. Also, if you’re curious, that museum is the Metro on 5th.
The reason Dr Doom acquired Venom was to set up Ultimates 3. It was always weird that Venom randomly showed up there. I guess this was their attempt to connect the dots
There have been, what like 20+ episodes of back issues specifically dealing with Kang or hypertime or time travel in some form and the most chronologically confused we’ve ever been is when Bendis goes, “soooo….how bout Venom again?”
"Wow, her being a reflection of herself thats been embodied by carnage is such a cool idea, looking normal but having that horrific element hidden under the surface. I wonder what they'll do with- oh nevermind she's normal now"
Watching this is giving me flashbacks to when I was reading this and New Avengers as it was coming out. And one thing that Bendis loves, is his various flashbacks. 😂
Great episode!!😂😂 Honestly, I want to see what the connection with Doctor Doom goes bc while it’s ridiculous, it sounds interesting…or maybe I just want to read a Doom story
Peter to Brock: " Have you ever heard a fucking horse /scream?!/ I have. I didn't even know horses could even do that, I didn't know a horse could beg for it's life, man."
War of the symbiote is pretty much the ultimate Spider-Man video game summed up and tweaked to be retrofitted into the comic. Either way, loved the game and love seeing ultimate Spider-Man on here every time. My whole childhood and teen years were made with that series. Super excited for the ultimatum episode. I remember getting the ultimate Spider-Man tie-in issues when it was coming out back in 2009 and were easily the best thing about that event.
I have original art from this trade. 2 page splash by Stuart Immonen. The shot of Peter taking down the rhino and as he's swinging away he's getting a ping on his spidersense due to Eddy Brock watching him from the ally way. It's killer. One of my favorite pieces in my collection.
47:00 would teleportation technology change our DNA...would the offspring of two "teleport clone" people be any different than the offspring of two people who haven't been teleported? Or would there be absolutely no change? Lol I'm pretty sure that has already been discussed by you guys or the answer is obvious and I'm just missing it but something sal said just brought this question to my mind and it seems the topic of teleportation has been debated by y'all ... heavily
Buy Ultimate Spider-Man: War of the Symbiotes right here! amzn.to/3Oa0EtA
"Do you know what happens to a symbiote when it's struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else"
Even as a kid that line was lame.
Maybe getting Dr. Manhattan as a guest writer was a mistake.
"It's 2008. I'm writing issues 123 to 128 of Ultimate Spider-Man. It's 2024. Sal entertains his friends and their audience with my story of Spider-Man and Symbiotes. It's 2035. The ornithology community finally accepts calling vultures 'Necromongers'. A content smile finds its way across my face. I take my ink to the page."
lol indeed :)
I didn't know comments could go this hard lmao
Still can’t believe they’ve gotten this far with Ultimate Spider-Man. We’ve come so far
"Finally YESSS"
@@dn22pkkdd476 But in the end...
Agreed. And if my math is correct, then they have between 4 to 5 videos left before they reach "The Death of Ultimate Spider-Man".
@@tjjordan4207Gonna hurt, I do wonder if they'll tackle the miles story.
@@MUSTBUTTER They probably will, although maybe more as its own thing.
“Some part of x imprinted onto y” is an all time back issues line that deserves to be on a plaque somewhere
Makes me a little sad that it’s been so long since the last time “the Flash runs SO FAST…”
Most recently there's "x has many powers".
I love that Sal has vocalized multiple times that writers can pretty much do anything that they wants with the characters they are writing, but what Bendis did with doom is “wrong”
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And what Bendis did with Superman was wrong.
Ben's "I have a paper bag" line is shockingly ignored. It made me laugh out loud. Nice one, Ben :D
I used to have the Ultimate Spider-Man game on PS2 and played it all the time, I loved it. That was always the Venom sequel story, to me, but then this story arc came out. I still like it, but the game’s story will always have a special place in my heart
It is because it messes with that game that I dislike this arc so much. Especially since the retcons of this arc and everything it sets up is just never picked up again.
That game was literally a volume in ultimate Spider-Man at one point Such a great game. Spider-Man 2 on Ps5 reminds me of it so much
I'd honestly have preferred it if this was a sequel to the games story in which Eddie tries to kill Gwen because he sees her as a threat
@@johnnieriot13 yep, I even believe Bendis said on his old message boards the game was the sequel to the Venom arc fans were clamoring for. When this was coming out monthly I thought it was a retelling/sequel to the game.
@@pay7232 I’m pretty sure. Not positive but didn’t Bendis write the game?
"Im gonna out you as Spider-man i-if you don't get me my suit back, Parker!"
*Grips Eddies shoulder with the proportional strength of a spider*
Eddie
I had to watch. and LISTEN. To you eat a HORSE.
IM ABOUT TO BEAT YOU TO DEATH JUST FOR THAT.
Can you IMAGINE what I would do to you if you OUTED MY IDENTITY?!"
Thank you Ethan and Ben for that amazing comic visual in my head
It's kind of funny how inescapable Venom is in mainstream Marvel and in Ultimate Spider-Man he and Carnage our disposable villains used to make covers interesting.
Fair point. Love the way 😂 they throw in the eating people it's 🧇 ironically cannon to add to your point.
It felt like a lot of the Ultimate universe outside the FF were given directives to include stuff that the 616 had decades of and the writers made them perfunctory. It was at its worse in Ultimate X-Men. I remember paying thru a trade UXM and it felt like someone told the writers “boil down Dark Phoenix, Proteus, Shadow King, Sentinels, and Asteroid M into one or two issues a piece and that will just be a year of publishing.”
Why not take the chance to make cool new stuff instead.
It's kind of crazy that the most popular thing about ultimate venom is the video game starring him and even then Carnage is barely in it
@@flashtheshapeshafterthat game is better then this comic imob
Bendis historically doesn't care for symbiote characters, hence their footnote appearances in the Ultimate universe.
"Peter-Man"
Going to need to be a little bit more specific. There’s a lot of Peters who are men out there. 🤣
Sal's been mentioning Richard Parker possibly starting the next world war for like seven years. This is the kind of payoff I expect!
“Peter-man” 😂😂
Biggest nitpick is that this is the final appearance of Ultimate Eddie Brock
Ultimate Venom does return, but it's... complicated!!!!
Indeed
The fact Ultimate Eddie got captured and never returned pissed me off. It would be cool if Eddie came back and fought Miles. That would been better.
HOLY CRAP! We've been getting so much Ultimate Spider-Man as of late! So giddy!!!
"You came to my house...where my aunt makes wheat cakes??" That's the line of the year so far. That was great! 😂
The collective groan when there’s yet another flashback.😂
I gifted this trade to a buddy once, he thought the Gwen Carnage material to be the coolest take on the character until Spider Gwen. Anyways thank you again for the shot of Ultimate Crack Issues can't wait for the next one!
Dammit. Every time I see a vulture for the rest of my life, I’m going to think, “They keep what they kill.”
Okay, Ben's quip level is Spider-man level this episode
Ultimate Spider-Man's how I found y'all's channel, I love this series so much!
Man we’re close to the end guys this is insane man I don’t know if you’d do it Sal but I’d love for you to do Miles Morales stories considering it does continue on after the Death of Spider-Man they’d be very fun videos
55:31 paper bag and them trying to figure out what day it was killed me
28:39 Ben has been corrupted by Rek-Rap, even he couldn't escape that monstrosity.
I can just fall down a Comic Pop Back Issues hole at any given time. Been a subscriber since under 50K. I can listen to Sal, Ethan & Ben for hours. Keep up the good work guys (PS- Tiffany as well)
ULTIMATE BROS WE ARE SO BACK!!!
Ultimate Spider-Man (video game) was a true gem! Short but it was very sweet and a fantastic soundtrack! Also my favorite voice actor for Peter (:
I just thinking about Ultimate Spider-Man today… Huh, happy coincidence.
Sal doing that Homelander quote perfectly and slyly is hilarious
*19:20* Juan Valdez reference! Awesome 😂
Two of my favorite Ultimate characters (Venom & Carnage) facing off… what a nice hump day treat
Can't believe Sal actually mentioned the Ultimate Spider-Man game. It was probably one of the best games I've ever play on the OG Xbox. Fortunately you can still play it on PC.
54:50 best inadvertent Spaceballs reference EVER.
Ultimate Spider-Man on Back Issues is a brightspot in the universe today. Love these.
I'd love to see a return for Harbor Patrol! Another great video btw
As a colombian i approve the juan valdez reference ...
Ultimate Spiderman is always a treat on Back Issues and I was waiting for you guys to get to this story in particular. I'm a sucker for all things symbiotes and Gwen Carnage is super cool! Kind of wish they kept that longer, I would have loved more stories with Gwen as the Carnage symbiote.
Picked up this volume up during free comic book day years ago, hell yeah
I will always be impressed by Sal great impression of a neck snap 38:15
When Ben goes 'No, NO!' you know shit hit the fan. 😂😂😂
The passage of Time in the episode is INSANE😂 I'm soooo happy Back Issues continues to be A Fun & Epic Storytelling podcast😂❤❤
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN! LET'S GOOOOOO
Takes me back to bens line " get your roxon rocks off with roxon rock candy"
Sal, when you do ultimatum, remember to do the 2 requiem issues of Ultimate Spider-Man. They’re the ultimatum aftermath issues that show what ultimate J Jonah Jameson was doing and shows Pete surviving ultimatum.
It’s always a treat when y’all do ultimate spiderman. Wow, how bad is that final venom design though? OG Venom on top>
I actually think it’s terrifying. I’d love to see it return someday
@@superjlk_9538it kinda did with Ewing's current Venom run, in Bedlam.
@@gedeonnunes5626 yes and I love that design
38:15, nice crack noise! I want to learn how to make that noise too but I'm not sure if it's more in the teeth or the tongue roll.
The game based on this book was so much better and actually gave Eddie a good conclusion to his arc
“So, Venom is a little tired, so he..:eats a human being.” - Sal
Sweet talk about a treat for us!! More ultimate spiderman!
I always love when Sal does his own crazy sound effects
The old Ultimate Spider-Man with a young Peter Parker, versus the new Ultimate Spider-Man with an old Peter Parker. Who will win!?
Both. The answer is both. They’re both awesome.
I remember playing the ultimate Spider-Man game on PS2 never finished it but remember it was a fun game. Also i think Ben is on to something that Eddie has a piece of the simbiote and it got hungry in order to reconstitute itself and restore itself 100% to original form similar or the same as ultimate carnage.
57:47 LOL got Spaceballs flashback with that.
Sal said this is "off the heels of ultimatum" but this story takes place before not after. 👍
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It's crazy that this is just the other version of the ps2 game Ultimate Spider-man
I was just thinking of commenting "More Ultimate Spidey" on this weeks back issue for old times sake, but lo-and-behold, Sal was once again, streets ahead.
35:39 it's not what's familiar but similar. When the suit was introduced, Richard says it has to be made for a specific person and Eddie says the one(s) he made where done with blood from Richard. Peter only gets a bit of the suit on him but it gets fried then he destroys the rest of that batch but Eddie had a second batch made as a control specimen. Both suits are made using Richard's blood so Peter is the closest the suit can get to being with him.
Also, when you cover the Ultimatum tie-ins there's two issues not collected as they are part of the Ultimate Requiem series that acts as finales to the three ongoings at the time
Peter’s blood was closest but it wasn’t Richard’s. Eddie’s was vastly different so I imagined he needed to consume other cellular material so the symbiote wouldn’t eat his own. The game made a lot more sense about the “missing piece”. It would have been nice if they just said that Carnage was cloned using a part of Peter’s remaining symbiote and that it was needed to fully support Venom
This feels like who’s on first mixed with Spaceballs wrapped in a let’s go back. And I love it.
17:17 i hear ya Ethan....moving around a lot as a kid, definitely do not know any of my pediatricians' names.
Oh Sal! I think I can actually help here! Hell yes! So as I read it, back in the carnage story, the reveal is that carnage was made with Parkers blood/DNA. Same with Venom, but venom was unfinished, hence why it craves Peter and affects him psychologically. It feels that it needs Peter to finish its own internal DNA mumbo jumbo. But this is comics so he can never really eat Peter. But you know what he can do? Eat a messed up Peter clone. And the same way it was meant to cure cancer, it finnagles its own sciencey fictioney DNA problems into a more balanced state.
They're baaaaaaaack! Love these episodes!
The whole yesterday bit is gold man😂
"Life is like a box of chocolates" devours person listening to him "Each one tastes a little bit different" cue feather blowing in the wind
one of the first spider-man comics i remember reading/buying. that and maximum carnage, or that clayton crain drawn carnage miniseries
Goo Gwen, proof that Gwen will never truly die: and support for the future of Spider-Gwen/Ghost Spider.
I had so much love for the ultimate Spider-Man video game. It’s actually what drew me in to reading ultimate Spider-Man as a kid. Good times.
Ultimate spiderman is back babyyyyy. Always super hyped when its back on the couch.
This comic is like a clock without hands. You will never know what time it is
The time confusion near the end was hilarious!
No no. Those flashbacks like with Rhino and the museum are set peices in the game that they recreate here. They even use the same dialogue for the most part. Basically, the whole game happens up to the last act and then the comic overwrites that bit. I don’t expect anyone to remember any of that, I just happen to play through that game like 3 times a year. Also, if you’re curious, that museum is the Metro on 5th.
The reason Dr Doom acquired Venom was to set up Ultimates 3. It was always weird that Venom randomly showed up there. I guess this was their attempt to connect the dots
This whole episode has been the "When will then be now" scene from Spaceballs
Bendis should become a mattress salesman, cause the man freaking loves padding.
There have been, what like 20+ episodes of back issues specifically dealing with Kang or hypertime or time travel in some form and the most chronologically confused we’ve ever been is when Bendis goes, “soooo….how bout Venom again?”
Oof, I had managed to forget about the Blob eating the Wasp alive. That’s okay I don’t need to sleep tonight.
"Wow, her being a reflection of herself thats been embodied by carnage is such a cool idea, looking normal but having that horrific element hidden under the surface. I wonder what they'll do with- oh nevermind she's normal now"
In the old words of Linkara, *”WHAT TIME IS IT??!!!”*
1:09:30
wait, THAT'S where' that splash page is from? Never knew that
The story continues in Ultimates 3, I remember Doom sending Venom to attack the Ultimates
But that venom was a fake right? It was a robot
Love a good Ultimate Spider-Man episode.
Great Spaceballs Now Now moment @55:57
The weird time placement of this arc has me like “I guess Bendis saw Memento one day and thought it was pretty cool.”
Watching this is giving me flashbacks to when I was reading this and New Avengers as it was coming out. And one thing that Bendis loves, is his various flashbacks. 😂
Love the content Gents, keep up the great work! Comic pop Woo!
Its 2085 and the necromongers get the last laugh as the comic pop studios get encircled from above.
Always love when ComicPop continues the Ultimate Spider-Man saga!
Great episode!!😂😂 Honestly, I want to see what the connection with Doctor Doom goes bc while it’s ridiculous, it sounds interesting…or maybe I just want to read a Doom story
Newish fan, love ur coverage of this series, will u guys ever re do any of ur early stuff? Ur audio equipment is much better I was just wondering
.....I have never been more mentally exhausted trying to keep track of the timeline
Peter to Brock: " Have you ever heard a fucking horse /scream?!/
I have. I didn't even know horses could even do that, I didn't know a horse could beg for it's life, man."
all the flashbacks within flashbacks make me think of space balls
'when will then be now?'
'soon'
edit: 57:53 ey, nice
LETS GO MORE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN WOO
War of the symbiote is pretty much the ultimate Spider-Man video game summed up and tweaked to be retrofitted into the comic. Either way, loved the game and love seeing ultimate Spider-Man on here every time. My whole childhood and teen years were made with that series. Super excited for the ultimatum episode. I remember getting the ultimate Spider-Man tie-in issues when it was coming out back in 2009 and were easily the best thing about that event.
Maybe the small part of the Symbiote that got left behind with the host, is some kind of C-C-C-C-COOOODEX. lol
This was madness! 😂😂😂
I feel like there’s something very Freudian about two of Peter’s main love interests being a Goblin monster (MJ) and being a Carnage (Gwen).
I have original art from this trade. 2 page splash by Stuart Immonen. The shot of Peter taking down the rhino and as he's swinging away he's getting a ping on his spidersense due to Eddy Brock watching him from the ally way. It's killer. One of my favorite pieces in my collection.
Stuart Immonen’s art here is really impressive for a monthly comic. His storytelling is very clear and his rendition of action is exciting.
Spaceballs references for the win!
47:00 would teleportation technology change our DNA...would the offspring of two "teleport clone" people be any different than the offspring of two people who haven't been teleported? Or would there be absolutely no change? Lol I'm pretty sure that has already been discussed by you guys or the answer is obvious and I'm just missing it but something sal said just brought this question to my mind and it seems the topic of teleportation has been debated by y'all ... heavily
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