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uosdwisrdewoh's review
1.0
Appallingly bad.
While the earlier books in this series included redeeming issues or features, volume four loses the plot completely. To its credit, this volume tries to draw the main storylines to a close--something many mid-90s comics didn't even attempt. With the centerpiece "Trial of Peter Parker" storyline, answers are given which make some degree of sense, including a then-definitive answer to who the real Spider-Man is, but then the whole thing goes off the deep end with "Maximum Clonage" where motivations, characterizations, and plot points shift from page to page.
At this point, it isn't even that fun in a car-crash watching kind of way, as the story slips from bad-in-a-fun-way to just incompetent. I think the next seven (!) volumes shift quickly into simply dull, so this may be the last stop on this nostalgia train for me. I made it about six issues further than I did as a teenager.
While the earlier books in this series included redeeming issues or features, volume four loses the plot completely. To its credit, this volume tries to draw the main storylines to a close--something many mid-90s comics didn't even attempt. With the centerpiece "Trial of Peter Parker" storyline, answers are given which make some degree of sense, including a then-definitive answer to who the real Spider-Man is, but then the whole thing goes off the deep end with "Maximum Clonage" where motivations, characterizations, and plot points shift from page to page.
At this point, it isn't even that fun in a car-crash watching kind of way, as the story slips from bad-in-a-fun-way to just incompetent. I think the next seven (!) volumes shift quickly into simply dull, so this may be the last stop on this nostalgia train for me. I made it about six issues further than I did as a teenager.
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