AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #611
Writer: Joe Kelly
Penciler: Eric Canete
Inker: Eric Canete
Story Title: This Man, This Expletive Deleted
Plot
Deadpool gets a job. Quips are exchanged. Mama jokes are thrown down. The Gauntlet begins.
The Commentary
Sigh.
God I hated the art in this issue.
Then again I wasn’t much on the writing either. I think I have mentioned how hit and miss Kelly’s work has been with me in the past and while this issue had some funny moments and I did think that the Mama joke scene at the end was laugh worthy this was a pretty useless issue. Deadpool shows up, fights with Spider-Man, distracts him and then walks away. Some people might dig this sort of thing.
I am not one of them.
As I indicated at the top of this review my main beef with this issue is the art. I am not going to say that Eric Canete can’t draw because obviously he can. The people look like people. Messed up, anime-like people with wacky proportions but people nonetheless. I just didn’t like it. Usually I am pretty easy going when it comes to art and when I don’t like the art it usually falls under one of two categories; either the person doesn’t have the talent or I found it annoying. We’ve established that Canete has talent so that just leaves me being annoyed. I may sound like a stodgy old man yelling at the neighbor kids that I didn’t fight in no dubba dubba two to have them walk on my lawn but I think that Amazing Spider-Man should have the best and brightest the industry has to offer. Instead we get wacky art guy.
Sigh.
That’s two sighs for one issue. This isn’t going well.
Parting Thoughts
This is quite possibly my shortest review ever but at the same time not a whole heck of a lot happened. Deadpool and Spider-Man fought after a fairly unfunny scene of Deadpool claiming that Obama is trying to hire him to kill Norman Osborn. It’s not that I don’t think the President should be referred to in such a manner. I just want it to be funny. Overall this was a lack luster issue.
Still better than 605, but little else is worse.
1 out of 5 webheads.
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1) “Amazing Spider-Man should have the best and brightest the industry has to offer” – Michael Bailey
So so so right.
2) My personal opinion is that pencilers like Bachalo, Ramos, Canete and more shouldn’t be in Marvel, or at least they shouldn’t be in so popular titles like Spider-man, X-Men and more.
Tickbite, I too left Spiderman on the shelf… This issue and the next. The art is atrocious. For myself it’s likely the final straw for my dropping of the spiderman books altogether.
This was the issue that made me cancel my subscription … finally. Most of all, I hated the way the characters kept talking to Wacker et al. Awful and unfunny. I’ll pick up the book again when they found a single writer and artist.
Thumbed through this today at the LCS. It looked and felt like an old issue of Not Brand Echh. This should have been in a side book like Web, not the main title.
However, old Not Brand Echh were drawn better and funnier…
The bad thing being… I think some of Joe Kelly’s BEST work was on Deadpool… what happened?
After a 3 issues arc of two great artists per issue we get this terrible terrible terrible penciling by someone who draws like a hen used a pencil
But the story itself is really fun, I give it 4/5, if a better artist like “Luke Ross” or “Marcos Martin” did the work I’d give it a 5
I’ve actually enjoyed ASM very much since American Son. This issue however, left me retarded. The art was grotesque. Isn’t this why Web of Spider-Man was created, to give ugly art guy somewhere to draw Spidey that’s not the flagship title? Not a smart way to start the Gauntlet IMO.
Couldn’t stand the art! This was a throwaway issue! Bleh!
Ditto with Billium.
I loved this issue’s writing by Joe Kelly (Yeah, I was let down by the art) but as a whole, I really dig this issue. MAMMAGEDDON! 4/5 for me.
The gauntlet has been thrown… by Mike Bailey. 🙂