The Review at the End of the Universe
Superior Spider-Man #33 In this issue of Edge of Spider-Verse The Superior Spider-Man continues his campaign to investigate the mysterious force that’s killing his counterparts from other universes. Playing out mostly as an action piece, the army of Spider-Men led by Ock’s Superior Spider-Man are closing in on information surrounding the threat that faces them…
Issue 2 Gwen Stacy Spider-Woman Rarely does a comic book live up to the extensive hype it receives. On the internet and social media Gwen Stacy Spider-Woman has been eagerly anticipated by a lot of people so the gauntlet was well and truly laid down long before release here. Given that this comic is only…
Issue 1 – Spider-Man Noir My first experience with Spider-Man Noir was in the video game Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions where he was a playable character. The conceit of this version is that he exists in an alternate 1930s depression era New York where crime runs rampant. Spider-Man’s costume is appropriately darker to suit the darker…
Issue 6 I said in my review of the last issue of The Amazing Spider-Man that the cliffhanger would be some form of red herring and as expected that was exactly what it was. We’ve had innumerable unmasking scares over this character’s long history and they’ve never really been worthwhile. It’s a bit of a…
It should be no secret to anyone who is interested in Marvel comics that they have been planning his death for a while now. In general I’m against the announcement of such a pivotal event months in advance but I suspect that it’s the only way comics can make money nowadays. Unfortunately it makes all…
Issue #1.4 This particular issue of Amazing Spider-Man functions nicely as a microcosm of Peter Parker as a character. Structurally the story starts off with everything going very well in his academic, home and Spider-Man life, progresses to his sense of responsibility getting in the way and ends up with everything that was good about…
Ms Marvel (2014) # 7 Kamala Khan’s team-up with Wolverine concludes this issue. Through interacting with him she learns a little more about what it means to help people and be a hero. As per the rest of this series, the tone is very light and very comical. The pages where she and Wolverine are…
Amazing Spider-Man (2014) #5 Following on from the cliffhanger ending of the last issue which saw our hero having a passionate moment with the newly discovered Silk we see that his life is about to become even more complicated. Something about the idea that sharing an origin causes this irresistible attraction between the two of…
This column took something of a hiatus last week because none of the comics I read I felt were particularly worth writing about, also time kind of ran away from me as sometimes happens. Anyway it’s back now as I did read something that was worth writing about. The Superior Spider-Man #32 After the recent…
Amazing Spider-Man (2014) #4 Original Sin catches up with Spider-Man and he finds out about a long hidden secret in his past. It’s an idea that has so much potential because there’s so much that Peter has had hidden from him over the years so I was interested to see what would be done here….
