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
Peter is quite the jam. Morlun is sucking the life out of him as Jameson helplessly watches. That is until Miles Morales shows up to save the day. He keeps Morlun at bay in order for Jameson to help Peter to his feet and escape. Miles and Morlun fight it out. Morlun wins the battle by knocking Miles away. He wants Peter Parker, the one Spider-Man that has defeated him more than once. Jameson has helped Peter get some distance from Morlun, but he eventually catches up. Peter knocks Jameson into the parks river, saying him from Morlun, but sacrificing himself. Peter manages to escape during a mid-air fight and lands in the zoo. He runs into Miles and figures out a plan on how to defeat Morlun. Tranquilizer’s they use at the animals. Peter tells him head back to the Spider-Geddon series and he’ll take care of Morlun. After promising Miles that he’ll stay back, Jameson calls the SWAT team to assist Peter.
This is a Spider-Geddon spin off. So if your are not reading Spider-Geddon, you won’t get lost here. Spect is focusing on Peter’s contribuation to this arc and it will be short lived since he’s doing much more interesting stuff over there in Amazing. Neil and Mark reviews on that series are frequent, so go check it out. Anyways, Sean Ryan does a good job showing how much pain Peter is in. The splash page on how Peter is able to keep going on really defines himself to be a hero. He has gone through a lot and yet he still manages to get out of it, why should this be so different?
I like how he keeps second guessing himself against a power and relentless villain. Morlun, NOW, reminds me of how Venom was when we were first introduced to him. Venom wanted to toy with Peter first, but Morlun has had enough and just wants to eat Spider-Man NOW and doesn’t care if people get hurt in the process, even innocents. Venom wouldn’t do that…at first.
So Ryan is delivering the goods of these characters based off the direction he’s given. Not to sound like a broken record but this is a Spider-Geddon spin off. Keep Peter Parker out of the main fight. Juan Frigeri art is good here too. Not complaining one bit. Solid artwork. The only think I would nitpick about this issue is character development. Not a lot of that going on, but you need to remember that this is a Spin-Off. Just move the story along. Next issue will be the last issue of Spect and then Chi-Town’s Breakdown will roll over to cover Friendly Neighborhood.
GRADE: B-
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Really liking Spider-Man and JJJ’s new relationship here… it’s a nice change of pace from the same old “hurr durr Spider-man is a menace” thing. I hope it stays for good.
Thanks for the solid review! I’m just now reading the early Venom appearences and I would have missed that similarity to Morlun.
I enjoyed the amount of action in this read and that we got a huge explotion out of it. There were 3 things that took me out of the story:
1. When Peter escaped Morlun mid-air by shooting a web at his arm and using it to pull his arm away. Why didn’t he just pull his arm away? What was the point of the web? Something to do with leverage maybe?
2. I count 4 scenes (Peter to Jameson, Miles to Jameson, Peter to Miles, and Peter to Miles again at the end) of
“You’ve got to get out of here, it’s too dangerous”
“I can’t just leave you alone like this!”
“Trust me, blah blah blah” etc
which I felt got pretty old.
3. Peter at the end looks like an average-strength fart could finish him off. Why doesn’t he accept Miles’ help? “I need to be able to control his focus. And I can’t do that with more people than me around.” seems like a very weak argument for taking on Morlun solo and practically-dead instead of two-on-one.