Something has been lost, that should be there, and is terribly missed.
This is more literal than the fate of Spider-Man in many of Ultimate Spider-Mans concerns.
The Peter we meet here, on the anniversary of Mays death, is older, and is tired.
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Tired of his life at the Daily Bugle, going through the motions under the wings of bothJ.
Jonah Jamesonand Ben himself, here the papers managing editor.
This Peter Parker isnt the nerdy tween outcast most origin stories for Spider-Man present to us.
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He is just… a man.
And Peter Parker wants it.
What does it mean to have a Spider-Man who chose?
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We have had older Spider-Men, we have had ones with happy lives alongside their webswinging alter-ego.
But weve rarely had this combinationa life lived but one yearning for change in any form.
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