Amazing Spider-Man #21 Plot:  This issue concludes Mackie’s two-part Alistair Smythe story. Spidey has a real problem to deal with here…not only does he have to outfight Smythe’s newest and deadliest Spider-Slayer (while carrying his […]

Amazing Spider-Man # 20 Plot: Alistair Smythe threatens to kill Jonah Jameson’s family if he doesn’t agree to lure Spidey into his latest trap. Jameson agrees, of course, and places an ad in his paper revealing […]

Amazing Spider-Man #19 Plot: The story is dubbed “Mirror, Mirror,” just like the Star Trek episode where Spock has the Fu Manchu thing going on.  Apparently the human half of Venom (who is ironically really the […]

Amazing Spider-Man # 18 Plot: Down on your Parker is now scrubbing dishes at a greasy spoon. Strapped for cash, this is evidently the only job he can get. He then calls his Aunt May to […]

Amazing Spider-Man # 17 Plot: We open the story with the Sandman literally falling apart. Ever since Venom took a big bite out of him, he’s been unable to bond himself together. We then cut to Glory […]

Amazing Spider-Man #16 Plot: Mackie finally gets around to addressing some loose plot threads. First up is Peter’s job at Tri-corp, which he hasn’t been to since I think the first couple of issues. The second […]

Amazing Spider-Man #15 Plot: The story opens with Peter packing his bags and heading off to Latveria. Peter had received a phone call telling him that Mary Jane is still alive, and in Doctor Doom’s country. […]

Amazing Spider-Man # 14 Plot:We open the story with Spider-Woman reading in the Daily Bugle that Mary Jane has died in a plane explosion. She then rushes over to console her friend Peter Parker. Cut […]

Amazing Spider-Man # 13 Plot: There were three main plotlines happening here. The first involved Mary Jane leaving for the airport to got to a model shoot. The next involved Spider-Man racing to get on the […]

Amazing Spider-Man # 12 We don’t have any lame villains in this issue like we did last month. In fact we have six of my all time favorites. Unfortunately, almost all of them have a […]