Marvel
Knights Spider-Man #21
The Other – Evolve or Die Part 7: Aftermath
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Penciler: Pat Lee
Inker: Dream Engine
Background: We’re on Part 7 of the Other now…the crossover between Amazing Spider-man, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man, and this title. If you don’t know what it is check out ASM #525-526, FNSM #1-3, and the last two issues of this title.
Plot: Mary
Jane is back at Avengers Tower and confirms to Aunt May that Peter is
really dead. While they embrace, Jarvis who was in the room comforting
Aunt May, leaves to give them a moment. Aunt May and Mary Jane have a
long hug, where JMS tells us that they are sobbing and feeling empty.
You wouldn’t even guess that they are sobbing by looking at the
panels, but the emptiness they feel may be indicative of their very
rational non-hysterically emotional exchange when MJ says she needs to
put some details in order with the Avengers.
MJ leaves the room but doesn’t even move two feet
before…well… I think Pat Lee is showing her crying. Anyhow Steve
Rogers (Captain America) walks up with both of his hands in his
pockets and tells MJ how sorry he is. Then they hug which in the panel
looks too intimate but at the same time you know that it wasn’t
intended to be this way.
She next goes to Tony Stark and they discuss several ways
they can protect Peter’s identity posthumously for the sake of MJ and
Aunt May. Tony’s ideas include making the body disappear or modifying
the injuries to look at thought they were caused by a boat’s propeller
or a fire. When MJ hears all this, she becomes emotionally
overwhelmed and runs to the bathroom. When she comes out Wolverine
sees her and asks her out. Mary Jane’s response is a manga style slap
followed by a run out of that hallway while yelling to Wolverine that
she’s going to kill him. Supposedly she is on the verge of tears when
she says this, but Lee’s art is so ambiguous that an equally good
reading of that panel is that she is popping some pills to calm
herself down. Anyhow lets stick with the first interpretation. Before
MJ is even out of sight however, Jarvis comes into the scene and asks
Wolverine why he did that. Wolverine’s response is reproduced below
as my favorite quote of the issue. It is of note that Wolverine’s
face is badly drawn in the panel but what else is new.
Meanwhile MJ goes back to Tony Stark and tells him that
she wants Peter to be remembered as a hero. Tony says no
problem…while warmly touching her face. By this point every Avenger
who is not currently tied down to one woman has seemed to have made a
play for MJ.
Jessica (Spider-woman) has a conversation with Mary Jane
late at night on the porch. Jessica says she felt “connected” with
Peter through their origin connection with the spider. Meanwhile Tony
Stark hears a band and sounds the alarm. Spider-woman, MJ, and now
Powerman run to Lab 6 and find Tony Stark by the door. MJ forces her
way in and sees and empty husk of Peter, she promptly passes out and
is carried away. Captain America then comes in and asserts that since
there is a broken window whose glass fell mostly outside,
whoever/whatever did this came from within.
Sometime later on the beach a teacher lectures some kids
on spiders and how they can shed their skin once in their lives. The
kids don’t really care about this information and concern themselves
with catching insects in jars. Some goop makes its way on to a kid’s
hand and he freaks out, running back to his group. They all assume
that he thought he saw a monster and tease him for it while they walk
away. Now we see the source of the goop, a giant web cocoon. We also
see the teacher and the kids continue to walk away. The issue ends
with teacher saying, “There are no such things as monsters.”
Well…wasn’t that cliché…
Likes:
- JMS actually used this issue to further some absolutely necessary plot…since this is the first Marvel Knights issue in the entire crossover to have this quality, it’s the best of the three.
Dislikes:
- Pat Lee is one of the worst artists I’ve ever seen on Spider-man. Not to mention that this is supposed to be a major arc. Also not to mention that this is a crossover so instead of just getting used to his crap, we cycle through good bad good, in every single set of this crossover which disrupts the feel of this story. Plus I get the feeling that Lee added a lot of intimacy between the characters that was not asked for by the script or by anybody for that matter.
Favorite Quote: Wolverine: “She’s in pain. She needs something to strike out at, something to help her move from grief to rage. Because rage keeps you moving. All Grief does is make you want to die right alongside the person you lost. Rage gives you a reason to live. She needed something, someone to hit. So I gave it to her. Seemed like the least I could do.”
Rating: 3 webs out of 5. Good writing, bad art, average plot development but about a major event…so slightly above average overall
Reviewed by: BtmxComedy
Marvel
Knights Spider-Man #20
Title: The Other – Evolve or Die
Part 5: Retreat
Writer: Reginald Hudlin
Penciler: Pat Lee
Inker: Dream Engine
Plot: Spidey
takes Aunt May and MJ (who are both in old school Iron Man
suits) to Latveria, where they break into the castle and hijack Dr.
Doom’s time machine. They all go back and see the live Richard, Mary,
and Ben Parker. Then they come back and kick some Latverian butt.
Then Morlun goes looking for Pete, since he’s tired of
waiting (what two things are wrong with that sentence?). Unfortunately
for him, Pete is on the freakin’ moon with MJ.
Likes:
- None whatsoever.
Dislikes:
- Well, Pat Lee is true to form in this issue and delivers his expected worst art ever. Yay for anime Spidey.
- BORING!!! This is the single most boring Spider-Man issue I’ve ever read in my life. The fact that I thought about not finishing one of the parts of the biggest Spidey event in a decade says quite a lot.
- POINTLESS!!! This idea should have taken up about 2 pages, not an entire issue. What the hell was the editor thinking?
- Now, remember that sentence that I asked you to find two things wrong with? Well here they are. First, Morlun gets tired of waiting. He has infinite bloody patience and this makes it look like he had no plan to begin with. Second, it was very clearly defined back in his first arc that once Morlun finds you, he can always find you no matter what. Even if the moon is somehow out of his range, which I don’t see happening, he should have noticed that he couldn’t since him anymore. No way does Morlun ever have to go looking for him.
Favorite Quote: “To be continued in Amazing Spider-Man #526”
Rating: 0 webs out of 5. This is one of the single worst comics I’ve ever read. No redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Reviewed by: Morbius
Marvel
Knights Spider-Man #19
Title: The Other – Evolve or Die Part 2:
Denial
Writer: Peter David
Penciler: Pat Lee
Inker: Dream Engine
Plot:
The first image would be everlastingly creepy were it not for
the fact that the characters look like they belong in Trigun. As MJ
steams about the front page rant about Spider-Man in the Bugle, Morlun
is standing directly behind her, watching, unnoticed. As she moves
about, he is clinging to the roof, always watching.
Next we see MJ playing pool with Captain America as Peter
walks in. This scene serves two purposes: 1. To show that MJ is very
good with a pool cue, and 2. To establish that Peter isn’t acting like
himself.
Flash over to MJ’s play, where we see an overly
enthusiastic fan, who the actresses say has been there about fifteen
times. MJ is distracted from that by the T.V., where the news is
showing a high-flying battle between Spidey and Tracer. MJ can’t get
anyone to turn up the volume, so she runs over to the local bar and
has them turn it on. The over-enthusiastic fan, who we find out is
named Johnny, is disappointed that she is running away, and beats up a
guy for insulting her. When he stands up, Morlun is right next to him
and points him in the direction that she ran. Again, this image of
Morlun just appearing would have been creepy if done by an artist that
didn’t graduate from the Dragon Ball Z school of art.
At the bar, MJ watches as Iron Man comes to help Spidey,
but his armor is high jacked by Tracer, so he becomes another foe. The
whole lot of them go crashing down and she doesn’t know if anyone
died. Unfortunately, Johnny shows up at just this time wanting to buy
her a drink, so he doesn’t catch her in an incredibly gracious mood.
He grabs her, pulls a gun, and then gets beat down when MJ gets a hold
of a pool cue (told ya that pool scene earlier meant something). MJ
runs from the bar to find out what happened to Peter. (And Iron Man
may be on her mind, too, but let’s face it, the wall-crawler’s just
more loveable.)
Outside, the cab she is trying to hail nearly passes her
when it stops on a dime. It has stopped because Morlun stepped right
out in front of it. The cabbie tells him that he’s off duty. Morlun
replies: “You’re talking to a man who returned from the dead to kill
Spider-Man. You’re back on. Understood?” The cabbie quickly let’s MJ
in.
Back at Avengers Tower, MJ and Peter have a very serious
discussion. (Seems all survived the crash earlier.) MJ details exactly
why it appears that Peter wants to die, and be with Uncle Ben. Peter
replies that he very much wants to live, which is why he’s having such
a hard time dealing with the piece of paper he hands her. It is a
report on his health from Dr. Castillo. But that’s all we find out in
this issue…
Likes:
- Morlun. His presence in this issue is extremely well done. He is simply watching Mary Jane and, for some reason, directing certain events. Such as directing Johnny to her, and making sure she catches a cab. His appearance is not being rushed, it’s being introduced over the proper amount of time. It builds interest well with the reader, as well as being really creepy. Well, it would be creepy if…well you know by now.
- The style of focusing on MJ in this issue, but still pushing the plot forward is interesting, and ultimately works very well. We get a kind of state of the union of where things are for her, and we get a different perspective on what’s going on here.
- The stalker is a good touch. It’s a very realistic thing for a model turned actress to have to go through.
- It’s good to see MJ fending for herself here. I don’t know how you can’t enjoy seeing her beat up a crazy stalker with a pool cue.
- I like it that we’re working our way up to the main story of The Other, but taking a decent amount of time introducing it. The Tracer story is excellent to be something going on in his life as this is starting to come over him.
- The conversation between Peter and MJ at the end is very well done. It has a lot of emotional impact, and MJ really brings up some valid points.
Dislikes:
- ANIME!!! Why has Spidey gone anime?!?!?!?! The art in this issue is ridiculously bad. I thought Billy Tan’s art on the last arc was pretty awful, but I’d actually pay twice as much per issue to have him back now. This is very very very nearly the worst art I’ve ever seen in a Spider-Man book, coming in second only to Humberto Ramos. It’s the total wrong style and somebody should have realized that. It totally destroys most of the great creepy effect that Peter David intended and wrote well for this book by distracting the reader with how HORRIBLE it is!
- This isn’t really a dislike, because I know it’s the right way to do it, but I’m still very irritated that I didn’t get my answers on that piece of paper. All that was revealed was that the names Spider-Man and Dr. Castillo were on it. Argh, I’m frustrated! Thank God it’s only a week’s wait!
Favorite Quote: Cap, then MJ’s response: “I’m not much for musicals.” “Guess that proves you’re straight.”
Rating: 3 webs out of 5. The writing deserved 5, the art deserved 0. I’m leaning on the side of the writing here.
Reviewed by: Morbius
Marvel
Knights Spider-Man #18
Title: Wild Blue Yonder Part 6 of 6
Writer: Reginald Hudlin
Penciler: Billy Tan
Inker: Jon Sibal
Plot: As we
begin, we’re pretty busy. The Fantastic Four find the space capsule in
the Louisiana swamp land, Spidey thrashes around the Owl, and the
Absorbing Man comes in and takes out the mystery woman that’s been
leading him around the whole arc. Ethan makes a quick stop and nearly
takes out the Absorbing Man, but not good enough since he seems to
have caught on to the idea of absorbing whatever material might kill
him (including a huge slab of rock). Ethan goes to the Bugle and looks
up all the information he can find on the Skrulls. He doesn’t really
like what he finds.
Meanwhile, Spidey uses the Owl as bait to get to the
Absorbing Man. Spidey gets him into the swing of absorbing everything
he throws, so he dumps two chemicals on him. Unfortunately for the
Absorbing Man, those two chemicals explode when mixed. Boom. It seems
it will take quite awhile for him to reconstitute this time.
Ethan goes and attacks the Baxter Building because he
doesn’t appreciate Mr. Fantastic calling him a Skrull. Knowing he
can’t take Ethan alone, Spidey shows up with the New Avengers in tow.
They battle unsuccessfully until Aunt May shows up. She’s seen the
whole thing on T.V. and manages to convince Ethan he doesn’t want to
hurt people. Spidey points out that he has the power to heal, and
suggests he use that instead of his other powers. So Ethan goes
off and becomes a faith healer. One problem: Reed Richards says that
in all of Ethan’s powers, there is nothing remotely like that. Seems
he gets his healing power from above…
Likes:
- Since we’ve had his powers built up to us for 5 issues, it’s nice to see Ethan actually let loose.
- Spidey’s solution to the Absorbing Man problem was appropriately creative, if a little on the violent side for younger readers. Marvel Knights is a more adult line though, so I don’t find that to be a problem.
Dislikes:
- He’s an honest to goodness faith healer? A Skrull? Hudlin is actually having someone get a power from faith in God? I hate to use this word in a serious review, but that’s pretty lame.
- The art was pretty horrible again, especially the New Avengers. The first image of Wolverine is up there with the worst I’ve ever seen.
Favorite Quote: Spidey as he’s throwing the Owl at the mystery woman: “I wouldn’t hit a girl. Directly.”
Rating: 2 webs out of 5. It isn’t absolutely wretched, but it isn’t very good either.
Overall Arc Rating: 1 ½ webs out of 5. This arc introduced Ethan Edwards and brought back and put down the Absorbing Man. The writing has been decent enough, but the story is quite unimpressive. Ethan might be a Skrull, but his origin is still a Superman rip-off. And he isn’t even a very good character. Some of the stuff with the Absorbing Man was cool, but there’s not really any reason to care. The thing that stands out the most, though, is the art. It’s awful. It really just looked pretty lazy for the most part, like Billy Tan penciled it on his lunch break or something. This arc started out looking decent, but ended up really worthless.
Reviewed by: Morbius
Marvel
Knights Spider-Man #17
Title: Wild Blue Yonder Part 5 of 6
Writer: Reginald Hudlin
Penciler: Billy Tan
Inker: Jon Sibal
Plot:
People all over the city are getting high on the Absorbing
Man. Interestingly enough, they are gaining his powers for roughly an
hour. This causes numerous fatalities, maimings, and super-villain
wannabes.
Peter gets a call from Reed Richards informing him of
Ethan’s true origin, so Peter tries to talk to Ethan. He is now fully
costumed as Virtue, and he does not take the news that the Fantastic
Four are in his home town very well. He flies away leaving Spidey to
take down a few Absorbing Man fakes.
Virtue reaches Hicksville (his home town) extremely
quickly (roughly Mach 3) and immediately sets about attacking the FF.
When Ethan is on the ground, the space ship he came to Earth in
switches on and starts sending information to his brain. He nearly
kills everyone before flying away in frustration from trying to figure
out who he really is.
Back in New York, the Absorbing Man junkies are losing
their highs. When they do this, they secrete what they snorted in
their bodily fluids, which make their way into the sewers. Spidey
crashes in on the Owl after finding out that he’s the source of these
drugs, and the Owl is ready for a fight. Down in the sewers, Crusher
Creel reconstitutes himself, and decides he’ll just kill everybody.
Likes:
- Many of the scenes of people getting high off the Absorbing man were brutal, but they were well though out and creative.
- “Virtue” has finally completed his journey to the path of the super-villain. Maybe now we’ll get the battle we deserve.
- I knew Absorbing Man probably wasn’t dead, and I’m glad I was right. It’s good to see him back.
- Finally after so long seeing the Owl as a criminal mastermind, he’s getting back into real action.
Dislikes:
- I’ll give the art a mediocre rating for this issue. Not as bad as last one, but still not good.
- So with the next issue being mostly action, has the Laurie subplot been dropped? If that was it, it’s a really bad subplot.
Favorite Quote: The Thing: “It’s clobberin’ time!” (That’s just classic, man.)
Rating: 3 ½ webs out of 5. Nothing spectacular, but pretty solid all around.
Reviewed by: Morbius
Marvel
Knights Spider-Man #16
Title: Wild Blue Yonder Part 4 of
6
Writer: Reginald Hudlin
Penciler: Billy Tan & Mark
Buckingham
Inker: Jon Sibal & Mark
Buckingham
Plot: Crusher
Creel, The Absorbing Man, and his mysterious female handler arrive
back at the Owl’s place to find it under siege by some very 1920’s
looking mob guys. Seems they took too long to whack everybody, and the
female, who we find out was trained by the Hand, convinces the Owl it
is all Crusher’s fault. So she gives Crusher some of his favorite
drug and convinces him to absorb it. The next part has to do with high
powered fans. The Absorbing Man has become the Owl’s new product.
At the Bugle, there’s a small conversation between Peter and
his new/old friend Laurie with just enough to it to say, “Hey, I
might be a threat to Peter’s marriage.” Speaking of threats, Pete
finds Ethan in the closet where he was about to change into Spidey and
go web-slinging. They go together. Spidey takes Ethan, calling himself
Virtue and now complete with Spandex very similar to Super-Man, to the
While
there, Pete gets an ants-on-the-window message from Hank Pym, so the
two leave to retrieve Peter’s wallet. They find the woman, who I
really wish had a name, dealing some Absorbing Man and they bust it
up. The press comes, Ethan flies off, and Spidey is distracted long
enough to let her get away. So, what’s big in the news now?
Ethan’s face.
But
just as that storm hits, Spidey gets a call from Reed about a much
bigger problem. The FF have put the pieces together on Ethan’s
origin, and it ain’t pretty. On the planet of the Skrulls, there
lived a man who created the Super-Skrull. When his planet was
threatened by Galactus, this man created something better than the
Super-Skrull. He sent it to Earth and gave it shape shifting abilities
that would keep it hidden until it could conquer the planet. When it
got to Earth, his parents named him Ethan…
Likes:
- The Absorbing Man’s death, if this was truly a death which I doubt, was very inventive as most things involving him in this arc have been.
- Laurie has possibilities. I just hope it doesn’t work out too formulaic.
- The ant message from Pym was wonderful.
- The presence of the Fantastic Four was amusing, and sufficiently small to not take over Spidey’s book.
- All the jabs at Super-Man in this book, especially Ethan thinking he’s smart for wearing glasses, were well appreciated.
- The origin is added to now, but what Ethan said before is still true. It’s WAY too similar to Super-Man at this point.
- The art from Billy Tan seemed even more noticeably bad than the last 2 issues this time around. Maybe it’s because I just read Spidey: HoM. I should mention that his Spider-Man itself is fantastic though. It’s just that everything else sucks.
Favorite Quote:
Spidey to Ethan when Ethan says glasses will mask his identity:
“They’ve got a close-up of your face, you’re built like a
linebacker, you’re about to walk into a newsroom. You don’t think
they’re gonna figure it out?” (Spidey’s commentary on the
Distinguished Competition …)
Rating: 3 ½ webs out of 5. A good read. The art sucked out loud, but a good read nonetheless.
Reviewed by: Morbius
Marvel
Knights Spider-Man #15
Title: Wild Blue Yonder Part 3 of
6
Writer: Reginald Hudlin
Penciler: Billy Tan & Mark
Buckingham
Inker: Jon Sibal & Mark
Buckingham
Plot: Well,
the police want to take Spidey in for property damage incurred in his
fight with Crusher (aka Absorbing Man) in the last issue. Spidey
basically tells them to screw off and jumps out the window, only to
run into Ethan Edwards, who is still in his cape and in the air. (This
is all very en medias res, refer back to last issue’s review if
you’re confused.) Spidey tells Ethan he needs to find the woman who
stole his wallet, so Ethan throws Spidey on his back and starts flying
uber fast. Spidey makes him land on a roof where they reveal that they
both know each other’s identity. Spidey knows Ethan’s because his
disguise sucks (though it is better than Robin’s if you ask me), Ethan knows Spidey’s
because he can see through things, including masks. After a little
discussion of this sort, Spidey remembers his wallet and webs away.
Back
in front of the shell of the old Parker house, Crusher and his
mysterious female handler are rather dismayed. They find that burned
shell after the burned shell of Pete’s apartment and figure someone
beat them to it. Darn.
In
a
Crusher
and female are in their van talking to Owl on the phone, when Crusher
gets shot. The woman yells at him as he passes out to become the
bullet, and he busts out the top of the van looking all metal like.
But the sniper who shot him was none other than the Punisher, so a
grenade is promptly lobbed toward the van. The grenade is intercepted
by Ethan Edwards, who is disgusted at the lack of concern for innocent
bystanders. The grenade then proceeds to blow up in Ethan’s hand,
thereby ridding him of all his clothes, save the cape.
At
the Daily Bugle, Pete takes a few pages to talk to a girl who is
rather hot, but used to be very fat in school and had a crush on Pete.
For the amount of time she got in this issue, she’d better mean
something later. Pete then catches up with Ethan for a discussion that
will last the rest of the issue.
They
talk on a rooftop where Pete points out how much of a rookie Ethan is,
so Ethan excitedly asks Peter to make him his apprentice. Peter asks
about his origins. Ethan tells him the story of Superman. Really,
I’m not kidding. It had a space pod, a farm, everything. After this
tale, Peter agrees (under some duress) to train Ethan.
Likes:
- Hank Pym!
- The Punisher!
- The scene with Hank Pym was excellent, because it really reminded us of how smart Peter has always been. Hank telling him he had a responsibility to use all his gifts rang like a “great power, great responsibility” speech.
- Billy Tan’s Spidey has really grown on me. Maybe it’s just the coloring.
- Though I have no idea what it was there for, the scene with the girl from high school was well done. Infinitely better than the similar scenes in Skin Deep. Of course, I’m just giving Hudlin the benefit of the doubt that this will mean something later.
-
Absorbing Man’s reinvention continues with the
realization that he can absorb a bullet and be unhurt. He gets cooler
and cooler every issue.
Dislikes:
- The Superman rip-off. I’m assuming Ethan is more than he seems and this is all BS, but it was still kind of hard to read.
-
The Punisher gave up kind of easily. But it is possible
that he didn’t actually give up, he just looked like he left. I hope
we hear from him again.
Favorite Quote:
Absorbing Man after the woman screams at him to absorb the bullet:
“Good call, ya harpy!”
Rating: 5 webs out of 5. Punisher and Pym get 3 webs apiece, and since the scale only goes up to 5…
Reviewed by: Morbius
Marvel
Knights Spider-Man #14
Title: Wild Blue Yonder Part 2 of
6
Writer: Reginald Hudlin
Penciler: Billy Tan
Inker: Jon Sibal
Plot: Right
off the bat, Absorbing Man takes out a mob boss. Not a bad way to get
right to the point. Back in
Pete
goes to work very fatigued; the wound is obviously getting to him. His
new partner, Ethan Edwards takes him into a back room and tells him he
needs to pray. As Peter does so, Ethan lowers his glasses to reveal
glowing eyes. Pete feels distinctly better after this.
They
go out to find some Spider-Man action, and run right into where
Absorbing Man (who will hereafter be referred to as “Crusher,”
being as his other name is Crusher Creel and it’s shorter) is
hanging another mob guy out a window. Pete ditches Ethan to change
into Spidey. As Spidey is dealing with Crusher, a Superman looking guy
(who is very obviously Ethan
Edwards) flies up and throws Crusher to another state. Ethan flies
away and Spidey finds the wallet missing from his pants.
Cut
over to the woman who has been handling Crusher. She holds up Pete’s
wallet and says they have someone to visit.
Likes:
- Reggie Hudlin is proving himself as one of the best new writers in the business. The storyline is engaging and the dialogue is excellent. I find myself anxious for next month.
- The woman who is handling Crusher is pushing him to use his powers more creatively, and the effects are quite cool.
-
I’m loving the mystery around Ethan; it really is
engaging to read.
Dislikes:
- Billy Tan’s art is still sub-par. It’s so disappointing to have a book that is so well written have mediocre art.
Rating: 4 webs out of 5. The only
thing keeping it from 5 is the art.
Reviewed by: Morbius
Marvel
Knights Spider-Man # 13
Title: Wild Blue Yonder part 1
Writer: Reginald Hudlin
Penciler: Billy Tan
Inker: John Sibal
Plot: We
start with yet another jailbreak. Why all prison guards in
Cut
over to Absorbing Man getting his drug fix in some old warehouse,
where a mysterious woman says her employer wants to give him all the
drugs he needs in exchange for services rendered. Cut back over to
Peter at the Daily Bugle, the one place he thinks he can get a job
fast. And he does! He meets a brand new star reporter (who is
unspeakably huge) named Ethan Edwards. Jonah hires Peter for a full
time, with benefits job on the spot so he can do a Spider-Man praise
piece with Ethan. When Peter shakes hands with Ethan as they leave,
Spider-Sense goes nuts, and Pete thinks he recognizes him from
somewhere.
Cut
to the Owl’s office. Seems Owl is the mysterious woman’s employer.
The service he wants is for Absorbing Man to kill everyone on his list
in 72 hrs. The only names on the list I could discern were Spider-Man
and Punisher. Absorby takes the job. Back with the New Avengers, Cap
decides it’s time for a scrimmage between heroes. Spidey gets pitted
against Wolverine, who ends up plunging his claws into Spider-Man’s
stomach.
- Despite my sarcasm, the writing was very solid. A really entertaining issue.
- Use of a villain like Absorbing Man as a main villain. Gotta love second stringers.
- Interesting introduction of Ethan Edwards. I’m left wondering what happens with him.
Dislikes:
-
Continuity among Spider titles has gone to hell. I just
don’t like plunging into the whole New Avengers thing before
they’re really even formed yet in the New Avengers title.
- Another jailbreak?! For god sake…
- The art was, in a word, crap. Everyone looked rather fat and effeminate. I realize Billy Tan is a well respected artist, but he’s gonna need to step it up BIG time.
Favorite Quote: MJ to Peter in reference to Wolverine: “You don’t think I’d actually be attracted to a hairy midget, do you?”
Rating: 3 webs out of 5. It really was a good read, I just wish some good art had come with it.
Reviewed by: Morbius
Past Reviews
Marvel Knights Spider-Man # 6-12
Marvel
Knights Spider-Man # 1-5