Chi-Town’s Breakdown: Peter Parker Spectacular Spider-Man #311

Writer:  Sean Ryan

Artists: Juan Frigeri

Editors:  Nick Lowe

E.I.C:  C.B. Cebulski

Crawlspace Reviewer: Chi-Town Spidey

Crawlspace E.I.C: Brad Douglas

Due to the events that happened in Spider-Geddon #1 and Otto’s egotistic whoopsie, Morlun is back!  Now if a fresh clone body he seeks out the one Spider-Man (there’s a few of them now..) that has defeated him, not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES!  He’s not too happy about it either so he’s going for number four.  As he makes his way towards New York we see Peter stopping a robbery and swinging on home, dead tired.  Guess he’s been working the late shift, when a cab is thrown on him.  Then a mail truck and Morlun makes his appearance.  To his vampire this Spider is FOOD and he’s angry and hungry.  Spidey knows he’s outmatched so while avoiding him he calls Jonah to go to his place and get the watch he used in Spider-Verse.  Jonah obliges and manages to get past Randy to obtain said device.  Peter’s room is disgusting btw.  Peter continues to get the crap beat out of him by Morlun, Jonah finds the watch and meets Spidey at Central Park.  Morlun won’t let Spidey escape this time and crushes the device.  End panel.

This is a Spider-Geddon tie in folks so if you aren’t reading series, you’ll be pretty lost here.  it does continue to follow the same Spect fashion that has made this series interesting and that’s the use of Jonah.  Still heavily involved in the story.  Morlun is an opponent that Spidey should run from.  He touches you for more that five seconds you can kiss your spidey butt goodbye.

Honestly i have not interest in this Spider-Geddon series.  I’m much more interested in what’s going on with Amazing Spider-Man which btw isn’t apart of the Spider-Geddon arc.  Least that’s what I’ve been seeing.  What kept me in this book was Juan Frigeri art.  Very fluid and solid.  He hasn’t disappointed me on his run on this book when he did draw on this book.  I couldn’t get a good feel off Sean Ryan writting though.  He is writing a part of a bigger story and needs to follow a directive.  He makes Morlun a bad ass and unstoppable like JMS did when he first showed up, but I would have liked to see how he does without direction from a bigger story.  He spidey quips where amusing and I do like the way he portrays Jonah, but to me, this is just another tie in.  I’m not interested in Spider-Geddon.

Grade: C