Writer-Jason Aaron
Pencils-Adam Kubert
Inks-Mark Roslan
Colors-Justin Ponser
Plot:
Plot:
Now bear with me here. I’m not going to review the other three issues, but for those who have not read the other issues, I’m going to do a rundown of the plot.
Issue 1: Begins with Peter (or Spider-Man) and Logan (or Wolverine) back in prehistoric times (I’m not a geologist so that’s as blanket a term as you can get). Peter is spending his time studying the place, gathering first hand knowledge that other scientists could only dream about. That, plus, he doesn’t have to worry about all those dangers, cause he can lift ten tons! Logan is spending his time irreparably damaging the time stream spending time with the small people of the era. Peter goes and tells Logan that they are going to die, as the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs is about to hit. Logan lets his prisoners go, and tries to get himself ready for death, as Peter Parker, boy genius, tries to come up with a way to save them all. We are treated to a flashback showing Logan and Peter attempting to stop a bank robbery by the Orb. As soon as these crazy diamonds are shown, our two heroes are whisked off to another time. The asteroid proceeds to hit Earth as Peter furiously uses his mad math skills to try to save everyone, and Logan attacks some guy with robot hair who may be in on the whole plot. The asteroid does hit, and Logan and Peter are transported to a future world which seems to be ruled by an alternate Moon boy and robotic Devil Dinosaur.


Issue 4: Finally, issue 4. This issue is really mostly dedicated to finally letting us the reader know what the hell is going on. We get a look at Czar and Big Murder who like to go through time and mess with things. They run into some soldiers during the crusades, and sends one of them to Hiroshima circa 1945, with his bat covered in those crazy diamonds they keep showing us. They also go to a huge palace at the end of time and hobnob with not only past and future versions of themselves, but Joan of arc (who’s a freak, lol).Besides that, we see Logan back in time as Spideys wrestling partner. Peter went back in time as someone who Wolverine liked to hunt as a kid, and cover in meat. I’m not that familiar with Logan’s early years. The two of them get a look at the others personal tragedies, with Logan seeing what happened with Uncle Ben, and spending some time with a pre responsible Peter parker. The both of them get sent through time again after getting beat up with the time machine bat. Logan and Peter seem to be in trouble as they are being burned at the stake, until Spidey shows us he got hold of some of the diamonds! We then learn that Mojo is behind this all, using our heroes to make interesting television.
I got to say that I am enjoying this story so far, but issue four was by far the weakest issue. With that being said it did have very good art. One thing I thought was cool is all the adds I see for the Kubert art school featuring Adam Kubert as alumni. For those not familiar with his work, they need look no farther than the very book they are holding. I got to say Adam Kubert is great. He has a lot of help from a great inker and colorist. It was nice to finally get an idea of what’s going on. That being said…
The bad:
The first three issues gave us great concepts, like Peter trying to save them from the asteroid. We got to see Peter studying things and wondering about life in general. We got to see Doom the living planet, Devil Dinosaur, the phoenix bullet etc. very interesting stuff. Issue four we find out Mojo is really behind everything. Is there a more lame villain than Mojo? Yes there is. Czar and Big Murder. We spend most of issue four following those guys as they enjoy their excess. We don’t know anything about these guys, and I really don’t care. I really hope they get a good ass whoopin from Spidey and Wolvie by the end. It seems like this fourth part is just an attempt to drag the story out longer than it has to be. I see no reason why the few salvageable parts of this issue couldn’t have been added to issue 3. The one thing that bugged me about all the issues is the antagonistic relationship between Wolverine and Spidey. In all the issues they have been around each other for at least the last five years have depicted a friendly relationship between the two. Here they seem to loathe each other. What gives?
The ugly:
I understand that the people working on this title have very little, if any, experience writing Spidey, but did they have to make Spidey out to be a punching bag? First in issue one Spidey is afraid to even go talk to Wolverine, as Logan might kill him. Did nobody who worked on this read Secret wars or Spideys fight with Firelord. Later on when Spidey and Wolverine are about to throw down, Czar and Big Murder say that Spidey is all talk. I don’t need a lot of action, and I understand Spidey gets beat up, but if they spend one more issue making him look like a huge wuss, I’m going to be very mad. Oh Yeah, the Orb beat him up too. *sigh*
The first three issues were great, minus the stuff listed in the negatives. This issue seemed like a lot of filler. I think the last two issues will bring about a satisfying conclusion (at least I hope so).
The whole story-4/5 webs
Issue 4- 2/5 webs
Good review, I just spruced it up a bit by adding more pretty pictures 🙂
Pretty fun game. I still have it lying around so I can play it again.
I think the traumatic thing spidey saw was wolverine being hunted by his brother. haha I gotta play Ultimate Alliance 2 just for that quote
“Did I mention I beat up Firelord once? No, seriously. Firelord.” – Ultimate Alliance 2
That sounds like a real bizarre story, I’m glad you’re enjoying it. The Mojo appearance just ratches the weirdness up. Anybody know if Spidey has ever met Mojo in the past?
Also, is it possible that the kid Peter was in Logan’s past life was his childhood friend Dog who I believe turns out to be Sabretooth. Was there any other insight into Wolverine’s past. You said he saw Peter’s misery, what did Pete see about Wolverine that was as traumatic?
Personally I’d also reccomend more spacing so it’s a little easier to read
Ok just gotta figure out how to make the letters bigger and i think im good