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By DAREH GREGORIAN
Last Updated: 4:30 AM, June 21, 2011
Posted: 1:16 AM, June 21, 2011
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Peter Parker's dying - and it's not from the reviews of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."
The webbed wonder will meet an untimely end while saving his beloved Aunt May from the villainous Green Goblin in "Ultimate Spider-Man" No. 160, which goes on sale tomorrow(Wed.)
Series writer Brian Bendis called Peter's death "truly heroic and sacrificial," and said it brings his story "full circle," since his crimefighting career was spurred by his failure to prevent his Uncle Ben's murder.
"Uncle Ben. I couldn't save him . . . no matter what I did. But I saved you. I did it," the Queens teen tells his aunt with a slight smile on his face as his body goes limp, with some of his Forest Hills neighbors recording the scene on their camera phones.
Alter ego's adieu.
While several of Spidey's superhero brethren like Captain America and Superman have returned from the grave, Bendis said Peter's gone for good. "This is the last hurrah. This is it," he said. "There's a real point to this and the point doesn't work if we don't stick to our guns."
Bendis, who's written Marvel's contemporary "Ultimate universe" version of Spidey since his debut almost 11 years ago, said he "was blubbering like a fool" while writing Ultimate Spidey's ultimate scene. The character was like a family member, he said, "and I murdered him!"
Marvel editor-in-chief Axel Alonso said the death paves the way for a new character to claim Peter's arachnid alter-ego this fall.
"There's going to be a brand new Spider-Man" in a brand new costume, Alonso said, while refusing to reveal the identity of the new wall-crawler. He'll make his debut in "Ultimate Comics Fallout" in August before taking over "Ultimate Spider-Man" in September. "We're certain readers wil fall in love with him the way they did with Peter," Alonso said.
Traditional Parker fans, meanwhile, can still get their fix of the original hard-luck hero in Marvel's "Amazing Spider-Man" comics, where he'll still be wielding the webs in his iconic red and blue costume.
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