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JMS can not take this book over fast enough
Byrne & Romita bring top drawer art to a meandering, insubstantial tale of retcons that I suspect was later retconned. Oh, and the utterly unconnected annual with the all new albino Man-Thing was absolute craparoni.
The good: The return of Venom & the bomber stalkerThe bad: eeeverything else!Another chore...
The art was actually pretty good, best of this run so far. I especially enjoyed how Byrne plays with the shadows to hide Venom in them. But that's the only good thing about this volume. While the first one held lots of promise and introduced several storylines that seemed to be going somewhere interesting, now that Peter's back in his costume, Mackie has decided that we're going to revisit the whole collection of Spider-Man foes without rhyme or reason. It's all pointless and, worse, boring. I'l...
It's nice to be reminded how great of an artist John Byrne is. John Romita Jr.'s not too shabby either. Reading these older stories makes me realize how good of an idea it was to end Peter Parker's marriage to Mary Jane. There's so much boring melodrama between these two. Making Peter single has led to Spider-Man being fun again.
Look, reading this book, there's the possibility that it's a work of genius. That all these threads (and there are at least a dozen vying to be the dominant one) will come together in one big climax. Or maybe it's possible the author wants to get at the meaningless of our lives in a really philosophical assertion that life is just one dumb thing after another. But if neither of those are true, what we have on our hands is just a mess. There are a lot of things happening that don't really appear
Another interesting trip down memory lane, having not read these for almost 20 years. I didn't like that there was a crossover story that just had a page of text explaining the missing parts, but I got over it quickly.
not gonna lie this felt all over the place
While a definite step up from Larry Hama's tenure with the Spidery symbiote, this volume's Venom involvement is an exercise in frustration as the story sets a climactic battle between Venom and Spider-Man with J Jonah Jameson's life also hanging in the balance (hence the cover art), and then ... Venom just fucks off and leaves the story never to return. It's a baffling decision, and a disappointment to read. The very next issue moves on as though the events in the story Never Happened.It's Highl...
This volume feels like a book I should like. There's Mysterio's scheme and Flash Thompson finding himself in a world where he's superhero, the return of Venom and the Sinister Six and a good mystery to boot. Yet, there's a certain joylessness about the whole affair that gets wearying and drags the book down particularly in the way that Mary Jane is written and her reaction to Peter's lie to her about Spider-man (a contrived problem meant to create drama) . Thus you've got a more meh feel than th...
