Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man #9

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis/ Artist: David Marquez / Publisher: Marvel Brian Michael Bendis is to character development as what Jonathan Hickman is to world building…beastly. Bendis has an ability to give supporting characters hints of depth that when their story comes to fruition, you find yourself realizing you just read a whole issue that saw little of the main protagonist and the shit was still dope game. In the concluding issue wrapping up Jefferson (Mile’s father) stint as an undercover informant for Nick Fury. We see Jefferson talking about how menacing and cold Wilson Fisk was back in the day. How everything Fury was saying would happen, was indeed happening and how he was caught in it all. Be clear, this was the ultimate universe version of “In Too Deep”. Jefferson was getting his Omar Epps on hard. We see him having to muscle folks as well as the crew he was running with. The best scene is probably how monstrously grimy and classy the Wilson Fisk looks under Marquez’s art. The appearance reminds me a lot of Alex Maleev’s depiction of the kingpin when he was running with Bendis on their godly stint of Daredevil.

The difference being that Marquez’s kingpin looks more like that dude you passed by on the street a bit back and thought to yourself, “I definitely don’t wanna get into it with him.”. He look so monstrous and intimidating but his speech shows how educated and business savvy he is. This is why kingpin is such a great villain. The dude got so many fucking l…