There's nothing wrong with this trade of Ultimate Spider-Man, it's just that it seems to be lacking something that the other trades had. It does a very good job of returning to the issues brought up in the first trade and even expands on them. However, the book seems to be more on the characters around Peter rather than on him. Nick Fury has a great cameo and the part dedicated to the Green Goblin's distorted perception of reality is first rate, but the whole time I kept caring more about what was going on with Peter. After all, what this issue is really about is who gets to draft Peter: SHIELD or the Goblin. Now I enjoy this book as a metaphor for how teenagers can feel that forces outside of their control often dictate their lives but I found the book lost a little of its voice.
What did make me enjoy it immeansly was the final panel, a huge splash page of Peter, still in costume, unable to comminicate or even sit close to Mary Jane. It was a picture that truly was worth a thousand words.
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