Ultimate Comics: Fallout, Volume 5

This volume is Volume 5 of Ultimate Comics: Fallout. The series is a six-issue limited series launched by Marvel in 2011, following directly on Ultimate Spider-Man #160, "The Death of Spider-Man," and presents in multi-threaded short stories how the various parties of the Ultimate Universe (Earth-1610) react after Peter Parker's death: how his family, friends, classmates, and comrades face the boy's passing, how the superhero community and S.H.I.E.L.D. are pressed on "who is responsible," and how, in the shadow of the funeral, the universe must begin to face the reorganization of order that follows. The series was written chapter by chapter by Brian Michael Bendis, Jonathan Hickman, Nick Spencer, and others, with the art team also rotating each chapter, making the whole feel like a collective transition and setup for the Ultimate line's "rebirth" phase. The most significant chapter of Ultimate Comics: Fallout is its fourth: Miles Morales, an African-American-Latino youth from Brooklyn, appears in a Spider-Man costume and subsequently takes up the mantle, becoming the second Ultimate Spider-Man—one of the most far-reaching identity handovers in Spider-Man history. Volume 5 continues this transitional thread: the hero's funeral has ended and mourning is gradually receding, yet the Ultimate Universe must answer the question "what now?"—loose threads from old titles are gathered, the stage for new titles is built, and a scene change about responsibility and inheritance is under way. Note that this is Volume 5 of the series and does not include the full six-issue collection; available sources do not confirm the specific division of labor and plot details of each chapter in Volume 5, so no specific scenes or dialogue are conjectured here. Readers are advised to read Volumes 1 through 6 in order for the complete emotional and narrative experience.