Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Comic Review: The Amazing Spider-Man #16.1

The Amazing Spider-Man #16.1: After a months long journey around the multiverse rounding up different versions of himself, fighting endless battle after battle, and trying to figure out a way to end the insanity of the Inheritors and get home, it's over. Spider-Man is back home and relaxing...until a gang war starts brewing.
The Good: Writer Gerry Conway (yes, for real!) returns to give Dan Slott a slight break and to give us a street-level Spider-Man story like only he can!! This is why Spider-Man is such a fantastic character. He can go from huge cosmic crossover one week to an awesome gangster story the next and it's all totally natural and not forced or out of place in the least. Thank you Gerry! All the classic Spider-Man bits are there. Spidey catches Tombstone red-handed, but he goes free on a technicality. He tries to get concrete evidence, but something goes wrong. This issue is just filled with classic Spider-Man goodness. And did I mention that Carlo Barberi does the art? It's SOOOO good!
The Bad: Surprisingly, there was ZERO Peter Parker in this issue, and I really couldn't figure out why. Maybe he's coming in future issues in this story, at least I hope he is. I miss Gerry writing Peter. Other than that, no major problems with this issue at all!
The Verdict: Don't you DARE miss this issue!! Seriously, this is the single best issue of Spider-Man in a while!
One a side note, I realize that I forgot to review Amazing Spider-Man #16! I'm hoping to get that corrected sometime before next Wednesday. Sorry about that.

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