Update 4/24/26 — Hey! Hey you! If you’re here looking for the new Ultimate Spider-Man by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto – the series that ran from 2024 to 2026 – go straight to Comic Book Herald’s Ultimate Universe 2.0 comics guide! If you’re here for the Ultimate Spider-Man series that started in 2000 and then transitioned to Miles Morales in 2011, stay here! Enjoy the comics!
May 2nd, 2014 saw the release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (may we all live long and forget), and for many comic fans, that’s the superlative most frequently associated with our favorite webhead: The Amazing Spider-Man. It’s the title that Stan and Steve built, and it’s the most established for good reason.
Nonetheless, it’s the relatively pubescent Ultimate Spider-Man that will be influencing the film most strongly, and to my mind it’s Ultimate Spider-Man that new fans of Spidey should be most interested in catching up on.
I tweeted as much on Good Friday, and that leads us to this week’s question of the week: [Read more…] about Question of the Week: What’s a Good Ultimate Spider-Man Reading Order?