Okay, so Spider-Men turns out to be what everyone thought it would be: A crossover between the Marvel and Ultimate Universes where Peter Parker meets Miles Morales and the two celebrate the 50th anniversary of the character by, I don’t know, fighting Doctor Octopus or something.  But putting aside the fact that (a) the two universes crossing over was once described as Joe Quesada as proof that Marvel will be officially out of ideas – A line that he must have regretting saying as soon as he left his mouth, let’s be honest – (b) this feels less like something new and exciting right now and more like the modern version of Spider-Man 2099 Meets Spider-Man (or, for that matter, “Flash of Two Worlds“) and (c) We’ve seen this kind of thing before in “Spider-Wars,” I’m genuinely curious to see what the reaction to this will be; it sounds like a potentially cool story, but without the promise of “IT ALL STARTS/ENDS HERE” that normally accompanies this kind of big announcement, I wonder whether fans will stick with the continuity porn sturm-und-drang of AvX and trade-wait for this…?

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