Put on your tinfoil hats, it's crazy theory time.

Yeah, I'm late again. I had a very busy weekend. Then I just kept getting distracted. Sorry, imaginary people that I pretend read my opinions.

I'll have reviews up soon. I may lump last week's in with this week's. I don't know yet.
But right now?

THEORY TIME:

(This is where I would put an image I scribbled like I do in the reviews, but Photoshop takes a long time to boot up and I'm lazy tonight.)

Anyway, because Marvel cannot keep a secret to save its life, they revealed some new information about Ultimate Spider-Man, post-"Death of Spider-Man". A new costume for Ultimate Spider-Man was shown, as well as the declaration that this new Spider-Man is not Peter Parker.

First off, despite this new evidence to the contrary, I still don't believe Peter will die. There's too much tied to this one specific character that has yet to be explored or resolved.

So who is this new Spider-Man? I have a theory, and while I highly doubt it will be true, I still think it's awesome, and something only Bendis would have the guts and sense of humor to pull off.

Let's start off with some brief background info here: In the 616 (main) Marvel universe, the Human Torch has died. He left his spot on the team to his best friend, Peter Parker. Now, Peter is the new member of the renamed Future Foundation, complete with new costumes.

In the Ultimate universe, a teenage Peter lives with his Aunt May, and his housemates now include Johnny Storm (the Human Torch), as well as Bobby Drake (Iceman). If Peter "dies" (or at least his alter-ego does -- it is called "Death of Spider-Man", not "Death of Peter Parker", which carries more certainty), wouldn't it be fitting for his best friend Johnny (and perhaps Bobby, too) to take up the webs in his place? And like Peter's new spot on the FF, it comes with a brand-new costume.

Now, granted, this is a stretch based on just a sliver of leaked info and more than a bit of speculation, but it seems like a clever meta-joke to me.

Oh, plus, take a look at the released cover, which I borrowed from Comics Alliance:

Based on the body build, this is not the Jessica Drew clone of Peter. It could be another clone, but it would be pretty lazy to bring them back suddenly for this, after I'm fairly certain it was confirmed they were all dead.

The only power we have confirmed by the single image is web-swinging, but Peter uses home-made web-shooters on his wrists. Really, anyone could use those.

Also, looking at that costume again, it looks a lot like Johnny's Ultimate Fantastic Four costume, only with different colors. The triangle on the chest is very similar, as well as the lack of defined boots.

Dead or alive, Peter will not be Ultimate Spider-Man for much longer. The best bet is that this is an already-established character. I'm hoping it's Johnny. Will I place money on it? No.

But it is the only way I won't be severely disappointed by this gimmick. Mark Millar, despite only being half-involved in this, rarely manages to live up to his hype.