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[Dr. Insomniac]

Hickman USM continues to be fun in how it plays around with established Spider-Man ideas. It's funny to me how I've seen some people bitch nonstop over how much they hate the main universe Spider-Man comics and for one reason or another ignore this comic even though it addresses pretty much all of their problems. I saw Linkara once wrote a whole blog insisting he refuses to read Hickman USM because it's not the Peter he knows and he'd rather the 616 version get his marriage fixed and grow up, even though I assume he's watched some of the movies and those technically aren't the Peters he knows either.

[Mustang]

This past Sunday, 3-30-25 around 6pm, I'm browsing manga/manwha on my phone and called myself checking out Solo Leveling. 200 chapters cool. Let's see if there's something to hook me, to give the anime a shot (since I've heard a lot of noise behind this series). Today is Tuesday, 4-1-25 (April Fools, phooey) WHY AM I 194 CHAPTERS IN? (You fool, you were suppose to read only till you get hooked) Forget being hooked (I was basically obsessed lol) I couldn't stop reading once I got to around chapter 8 or 9, and once you get to the 2nd major fight, it just took off from there. Where I'm at now, I'd probably say it could've ended around the 170 mark (or sooner). I don't want to say it started losing me towards the end, but I will say that I found this last arc to be the weakest even though it's action packed. I understand why they did what they did, but it's like, of all the routes to go down it just had to be this route (I don't want to go any further than that because I suck at explaining things and I feel like that might be spoiler territory). That being said, this is a top contender for me. I'll definitely check out the anime.

I might get crucified for this, but best protagonist (or at least top 3). I'm boring, what can I say lol.