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Amazing Spider-Man (1999-2013) #1 by Howard Mackie

tawfek's review

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2.0

Even aunt may hates trashy wannabe rappers!
Well this went way way below expectations.
Worst of all, it might continue the same way for 29 more issues till strazyniski takes over.
what's up with spiderman plots anyway?
Multiple times a mysterious fake spiderman, this time i feel it's Johnny storm.
multiple times characters duplicated, or replaced like aunt may and MJ, and even peter parker at one point if i remember correctly.
While this is my first time reading spiderman as a continuation, i did read single issues as part of huge events before, so i am pulling out these memories from long ago, take them with a grain of salt.
Is it unimaginative writers? or is it the tough task of writing new fresh stories for a title that has a single hero, and a known cast of villains, where you can't really do much about it, but be repetitive.
X-men was great, they always found their way back to freshness.
I hear Strazynski's run is actually great, and it's my blind recommendation to anyone starting spiderman, and people always praise me for choosing it for them, so hopefully strazynski can make something happen, i read a couple of titles he worked on before and they were good.
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