Ultimate Spider-Man #24

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  Un Cómic Más / Dave DSG

  Feb 18, 2026

  Plot Peter continues trying to confront Kingpin, but he can't move his body because Mr. Negative has him under his control. However, Spider-Man is clever and manages to defeat Mr. Negative, engaging Kingpin in hand-to-hand combat. Richard and Felicia try to reach the node to use the erasure device, but they are attacked by a substance that adapts to their environment. Richard's nanotechnology suit, which behaves like Venom, manages to stop it for just long enough. Ben and JJJ expose Kingpin's facade, causing him to lose his empire as well. Mr. Negative seizes the opportunity to make his final move, destroying them both. Harry forms an alliance with Captain Britain, one of the leaders of The Maker, where Mysterio impersonates Kingp in. Harry manages to speak with Gwen, who tells him that the Parkers will be safe if they don't mess with The Maker, before disappearing again in this fusion of consciousness with the other Mysterios. We'll have to see what happens in Ultimate Endgame, because this ending is completely open-ended. This is the final issue of this series, which brought us one of the best evolved versions of Peter Parker and his universe. Art It's packed with brilliant details that explode in your face, supported by subtle and well-placed textures, giving a raw and powerful tone to this story that shakes things up and gives Spider-Man a realistic twist. It's organic and dynamic, mesmerizing you in every panel. Checchetto and Messina bring this magnificent saga, which they visually crafted, to a spectacular close. Summary Spider-Man vs. Kingpin in an epic finale that leaves us with one of the best alternate sagas of Peter Parker. more

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  Joey88

  Feb 18, 2026

  Perfection followed by depression knowing that 616 will never measure up to this. At least someone managed to make a good Spider-Man story.

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  BillyBat

  Feb 18, 2026

  I'm sorry to say that Hickman, one of my favorite authors, managed to squander an incredibly strong concept with brilliant characters and a compelling premise. I don't know if there was editorial meddling or if Hickman simply lost interest in his original vision. Either way, it remains a massive disapointment. To be clear, it's not bad, it's actually quite decent, but on every page you can feel the wasted potential. What a mistake to end it this way.

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  Afre

  Feb 18, 2026

  Ok. I'm gonna start my rand about this comic and whole series with something else. TLDR: I hated this and this pretty much ruined UPM (Ultimate Potential-Man) for me. Imagine there is a new pizza place. You know the chef, you have eaten his food before, and you know he is a great cook. And you have been looking for a new pizza place, as the current ones haven’t been delivering. Each month, the Chef’s Special is what’s recommended. And each month you take it. The first 5 times it’s great. Especially the first two. What a joy. You feel like you have found a true amazing pizza place. Then, the quality hinders. It’s still good, with hints of greatness and you like it a lot. But after a year, something changes. You go to this pizza place, expecting pizza and this time the Chef’s Special is a hamburger. Next time it’s a steak. Next time it’s a soup. After that a salad. Every time all those foods are good, but they are not pizza. They are not the reason you came to this place in the first place. And every time you try to explain your view, you are met with comments like this: “IT’S ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD FOOD. YOU ARE JUST A HATER. LET HICKMAN COOK. LET HIM COOK. HE CAN DELIVER. LET HIM COOK”. Then another year goes by, you never get the pizza anymore in that Pizzeria, people still scream how you just need to let the Chef cook and wait until it is closed and… Nothing. Just nothing. This series was a massive disappointment; I think the biggest Spider-Man fumble since Spencer run and mostly a waste of time. I am annoyed. Because first issue still is amazing. And my favorite of that year. But this? After two years? What a joke. Nothing of consequence happens. Nothing really matters. This feels like a fanfiction. And just like every other cliffhanger in this series, everything ends okay and there is no consequences. Again, why is Otto Spider-Man? What did that even mean? What was the point of that? Does he even have spider-powers??? It’s questions like these that make me realize how poor job Hickman did with this one. Sure. You can try to defend it, saying it ended before he wanted. But no. It was his plan to make each issue focus on a month. He knew year before that this would end by 24. And what did he do with it? Nothing. Harry doesn’t do anything here. I don’t even know why was he brought back and his death faked when he as a character doesn’t matter in any way to any of the plots. We don’t know how he is handling all this. He feels very sidelined, which is odd because he was the major focus for the most part. Richard gets the girl and we get a cute quirky line how he is grounded and then isn’t. Nice to know Peter is fine with that an AI-based-on-him monstrosity is still with him and he has no problem that a teenager is acting as a superhero. And seemingly neither does MJ. Parents of the year. May does nothing. Just like her “grandmother”, both are wasted. She doesn’t even say anything. Ben and JJJ? Cool I guess. Their plot would’ve mattered more had we seen anything bad Kingpin did. Why was liberating New York so important? How bad was he? What did he even do? Seriously. Don’t get me even started on Mr. Negative. We waste a fucking issue on his backstory instead of the main character or antagonist and he does nothing. He just dies lol. Just like Fisk. What a joke. And then there is the Potential-Man. What a waste. I think he might be one of the worst interpretations of the character. There is nothing Peter Parker about him. He just feels like a fanfic character who does nothing but gets the happy ending. There were no consequences in the end for him becoming Spider-Man. All that intrigue of seeing Peter choose the powers as a married man with kids. And nothing was done with it. MJ is fine. Sometimes. It would be nice if she wasn’t just super horny for Peter and actually did anything. But silly me, expecting Hickman to make me care about this couple. Because this is not the marriage I have been wanting for so long. Don’t get me wrong. The flashback scene is great. I like it a lot. But too little too late. Now is the time you show us this??? Like. Why now? Why not 22 issues ago??? Why now try to make us invested in this couple and see how they are unique to Earth-616, when we know it’s ending. And what I am most confused about is Peter’s speech. He tells how you don’t need great power to have great responsibility and do things, but that is the literal opposite of what happens to him? He only manages to do anything because he got bitten by a spider and got those powers. And never seemed to care about anything going on? Like we never got any input from him, feeling powerless or anything. His whole arc of finding out he didn’t lack anything because family is what mattered feels hollow. It’s unearned. We never saw this kind of need for Peter ever again after first issue. So to focus on it now is just kinda pointless. Just like this series. I would rather read Spencer or Wells run again than this. I don’t think I ever need to visit this series again. Why would I? Adventures of the blandest version of Peter Parker and his jinks as Potential-Man are so uninteresting and this final issue also kinda retroactively ruins all stories of more interesting characters because nothing is done with them. So good work Hickman, this is how you ruin a series after amazing introduction. And the fact that this series shares the namesake of Ultimate Spider-Man is a crime. Ultimate Potential-Man has nothing compared to it. It’s all potential and ideas, but fails to deliver in almost every aspect. more

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  Afre - Feb 18, 2026

  If this works to you and this whole series was a blast to you, that's great. Don't let me stop you, I'm just envious I can't enjoy this like you do.

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