Amazing Spider-Man Vol II 13 (454) Review

Amazing Spider-Man # 13

Plot: There were three main plotlines happening here. The first involved Mary Jane leaving for the airport to got to a model shoot. The next involved Spider-Man racing to get on the plane with her. He was constantly distracted and lost time by buglers and criminals on their latest crime spree. The third involved some looser stealing the Rocket Racer’s costume and skateboard. The cliffhanger then has MJ’s plane blowing up and it’s assumed she’s dead. Yeah, like anyone stays dead in the Spider-Verse
Likes: Byrne’s artwork seemed up to snuff this time. He had some quality shots of Spidey and he had a cool cover. I also enjoyed the demise of the looser Rocket Racer. He ran into a door on his first day on the job, and was knocked unconscious.
Dislikes:The extremely cheap plot element of “killing off” Mary Jane. If you believe she is dead, then you haven’t been reading comics very long. There is absolutely no way she is dead. It seems that Howard Hackie, I mean Mackie can’t write the MJ character very well, so he builds a year long plot element that will make her absent from the tile for an unspecified number of issues. Mary Jane is a very popular character, and it’s a shame to loose her, and have us reading a moping Peter Parker until she comes back.
Rating: Two out of four web heads. I had hoped that the first issue, of the second year of the re-boot, would be fresh but this is the same old mediocrity.