Amazing Spider-Man: Going Big #1*
Absolute Carnage: Symbiote Spider-Man #1
Ghost-Spider Annual #1
Absolute Carnage: Scream #2
Agents of Atlas #2*
Savage Avengers #5*
Champions #9*
*Possible/Confirmed Appearances
Previews Provided By Adventures In Poor Taste
Amazing Spider-Man: Going Big #1
(Kristy, Mary Jane’s Cousin)
STORY BY: Erik Larsen, Gerry Conway
ART BY: Mark Bagley
COVER BY: Erik Larsen, Humberto Ramos
• Erik Larsen returns to the book he revolutionized back in the 90’s with a story that will remind you why!
• Legends Gerry Conway and Mark Bagley team up for a KILLER Spidey story that’ll keep you guessing until you read the last page.
Absolute Carnage: Symbiote Spider-Man #1
STORY BY: Peter David
ART BY: Francesco Mobili
COVER BY: Greg Land, Mike Hawthorne, Mike Mayhew
AN UNTOLD TALE OF A SYMBIOTIC HOST FROM YESTERYEAR…
During its first visit to New York City, the alien symbiote that would come to be known as Venom bonded to a host that wasn’t Spider-Man or Eddie Brock. Face front, True Believers, as this mysterious man meets his destiny… at the hands of CARNAGE!
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Ghost-Spider Annual #1
STORY BY: Vita Ayala
ART BY: Pere Perez
COVER BY: Emanuela Lupacchino, John Tyler Christopher
GHOST-SPIDER BATTLES FOR HER LIFE IN MURDERWORLD!
• Gwen Stacy is trying to balance her social life with her hero life in the 616…but what will she do when she comes face-to-face with Arcade’s Murderworld?!
• It’s a tower of terror as Gwen takes on some of the most classic – and DEADLY – villains of the Marvel Universe!
• VITA AYALA (SHURI, PRISONER X) and PERE PEREZ (UNCANNY X-MEN, ROGUE & GAMBIT) bring the Ghost-Spider action in the Mighty Marvel Manner!
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Absolute Carnage: Scream #2
STORY BY: Cullen Bunn
ART BY: Gerardo Sandoval with Alex Arizmendi
COVER BY: Gerardo Sandoval with Alex Arizmendi, Declan Shalvey, Mark Bagley
• Patricia Robertson may know symbiotes…but nothing could have ever prepared her for their god, KNULL!
• With Carnage building strength to call the symbiote god to Earth, Patricia must harness the power of the Scream symbiote!
• Can Scream withstand the draw of Knull, or are they doomed to be another casualty?
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Agents of Atlas #2
STORY BY: Greg Pak
ART BY: Nico Leon
COVER BY: Jung-Geun Yoon, Sabine Rich
PANDEMONIUM IN PAN!
• Through stunning science-magic teleportation tech, the visionary named ISAAC IKEDA has connected slices of neighborhoods from a dozen different Asian cities into the cross-Asian portal city of Pan.
• Is this new utopia a glorious pan-Asian multicultural dreamworld, free trade mecca, and tourism experience? Or is it a violation of hundreds of local and international laws, a magnet for monsters and maniacs, and a dangerous social experiment about to explode? AMADEUS CHO and the AGENTS OF ATLAS, as Pan’s new protectors, are about to find out!
• Also: Love is in the air! Which two Agents are about to melt the ice?
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Savage Avengers #5
(Venom?)
STORY BY: Gerry Duggan
ART BY: Mike Deodato Jr.
COVER BY: David Finch & Frank D’Armata, Valerio Schiti & Mattia Lacona
• The Marrow God has eaten the sentient population of entire planets, but he never had to dance with the Savage Avengers. Kulan Gath is on the verge of defeat…or is that what he wanted the entire time?
• A Pyrrhic victory lights a fuse that will only burn more of the Marvel Universe.
• Plus, the Punisher is curious about Crom…
Champions #9
(Miles Morales?)
STORY BY: Jim Zub
ART BY: Steven Cummings
COVER BY: Kim Jacinto
• Who has betrayed the Champions, and who can they trust?
• Miles Morales returns, but will it be in time to save his friends?
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Still waiting for the killer surprise that will keep me guessing in the Going Big issue, I had it figured out right from the start who the shooter was. The story was OK, pretty standard Conway stuff which is no bad thing, better than the B and C features anyway and the art was classic Bagley.
Symbiote Spider-Man was a good tie in to AC, but no real Spider-Man action. Hornacek, you aren’t missing anything if you don’t pick it up.
Oddly, the best book of the week is the Ghost Spider Annual; fleshed out the Gwen character and a solid story that was entertaining.
Another Absolute Carnage tie-in? Pass.
Wait – it’s Symbiote Spider-Man? Written by Peter David?
What do I do? WHAT DO I DO?????
“Erik Larsen returns to the book he revolutionized back in the 90’s with a story that will remind you why!”
Is Larsen writing in this issue, or drawing, or both? Wasn’t the only time he wrote a Spidey story that “Return of the Sinister Six” 6-parter? I hardly would call the writing “revolutionized”. And he had the unfortunate luck to be the ASM artist right after Todd McFarlane, so he was always being compared to him – not sure if I’d say if his art revolutionized the book – isn’t he most known in Spidey circles now for being the artist who gave Venom the elongated tongue and drool?