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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
There's some really fun and goofy spider-people here which is always a joy. The plot with the Inheritors is pretty boiler-plate and they aren't particularly compelling villains, but seeing all the different spider people interact makes up for it.
I will say, it disappoints me that in the Year of Our Lord 2018 some comicbook artists still haven't learned the basic anatomy of how to draw breasts. It's weird to see all these horny drawings of what amounts to nudes with spider patterns painted on, especially on the teenage characters.
I will say, it disappoints me that in the Year of Our Lord 2018 some comicbook artists still haven't learned the basic anatomy of how to draw breasts. It's weird to see all these horny drawings of what amounts to nudes with spider patterns painted on, especially on the teenage characters.
I don't really know how to feel about this. Kind of...senseless?
So the Inhabitor's or whatever, are back, and they are hunting down the Spider-people AGAIN. This time though the teams are led by Miles and Doc ock to save the universe. It's basically a bunch of issues of different spider-people coming in and out of the series to face off against the big bads and their many versions.
Good: The colorful artwork is always nice, getting to see all the spider-people team up, and of course the humor is all solid. Christos Gage has a knack for writing a actual FUNNY Peter Parker, even bringing in his PS4 version to the universe. I also enjoyed the idea of this story and the end of Spider-people.
Bad: The ending...pretty bad. Just like any event, it's a big wrap up of everyone fighting and then all the good guys win. Also, the middle half feels congested and confusing and if not reading any of the spin-offs you'll be wondering what's happening.
Overall, a okayish event. Not horrible but basically like any Spider-man event, just okay. I hope Christos Gage gets to write more Spider-man but just solo books. A 2.5-3 out of 5.
So the Inhabitor's or whatever, are back, and they are hunting down the Spider-people AGAIN. This time though the teams are led by Miles and Doc ock to save the universe. It's basically a bunch of issues of different spider-people coming in and out of the series to face off against the big bads and their many versions.
Good: The colorful artwork is always nice, getting to see all the spider-people team up, and of course the humor is all solid. Christos Gage has a knack for writing a actual FUNNY Peter Parker, even bringing in his PS4 version to the universe. I also enjoyed the idea of this story and the end of Spider-people.
Bad: The ending...pretty bad. Just like any event, it's a big wrap up of everyone fighting and then all the good guys win. Also, the middle half feels congested and confusing and if not reading any of the spin-offs you'll be wondering what's happening.
Overall, a okayish event. Not horrible but basically like any Spider-man event, just okay. I hope Christos Gage gets to write more Spider-man but just solo books. A 2.5-3 out of 5.
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
You set out to fill in a gap with your Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider comics, and you end up with Spider-Person overload. Whoever imagined THAT many iterations existed in the minds of everyone involved in this collaboration? I have to applaud their creativity, particularly as each one requires a "unique" look and backstory. And while the tension of confronting the Inheritors built nicely, the final confrontation fell flat. And based on Ghost Spider's emotional reaction (not in this comic), I expected more of a...shall we say dramatic ending for the two fatalities? I had to go back and re-read the section to confirm they died, it was little more than a blip on the radar. Considering this IS a comic book, where one expects a priority of focus on action, it felt like most of the time fell to squabbling. And while I'm unaware of a Spider version of the Avengers, the lack of cohesion is probably why the final confrontation took less than a two-page spread (or seemed that way). Sure, they did a great job at creating a swarm of Spiders, but was that necessary? As someone who only reads one storyline, perhaps I'm not the best judge. However, I felt disappointed with the expected action. Maybe, next time, cut down on the cast a touch and give credit to the action (or consider a different title, so readers don't come in expecting epic battle).
adventurous
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Wanted to read Spider-Gwen, volume 1, but turns out most of it was part of an event, the titular Spider-Geddon, so here we are! This volume mostly collects the main action of the series, however, it's very incomplete without some other volumes, so I'd recommend also reading Spider-Gwen, volume 1, The Spectacular Spider-man, volume 5, Spider-Geddon: Covert Ops, and Spider-Geddon: Edge of Spider-Geddon. Look up a reading order, and then dive in. And let's be honest, unless you're completely up on all of your spider-lore, you'll probably still be a bit confused. Like me. It's just a lot to keep track of, okay.
Still, I did find this to be an entertaining read. I liked the team-up of all the different spiders, and the way that so many of them got to have a voice and show their strengths. My knowledge of Spider-man pretty much dies with the movies featuring Tom Holland, along with the recent Into the Spiderverse, so this was a lot of new stuff for me. Inheritors? Never heard of them. Miscellaneous villains, kind of a crapshoot. And the story doesn't do a ton to keep you up-to-date. It does assume that you know the main players, although there's certainly a lot you can pick up through context. I will say that it made me want to dive into some more spider-stories, though we'll see how far I actually get with that. Too little time, too many comics, you know how it is.
Anyway, on top of the main Spider-Geddon storyline, this volume does contain a couple issues called the Vault of Spiders, which does some brief introductions of different spiders. These were hit or miss for me. Some were okay, some seemed a bit extraneous, to say the least. At least one just felt like the team was trying to spoof on something they'd never read before. Definitely a mixed bag, and brought my rating down. I'd give the main storyline a solid 3.5 stars, but as a collection, these intros were more in the 2-2.5 star range. Just too brief and too disjointed for me.
Still, I did find this to be an entertaining read. I liked the team-up of all the different spiders, and the way that so many of them got to have a voice and show their strengths. My knowledge of Spider-man pretty much dies with the movies featuring Tom Holland, along with the recent Into the Spiderverse, so this was a lot of new stuff for me. Inheritors? Never heard of them. Miscellaneous villains, kind of a crapshoot. And the story doesn't do a ton to keep you up-to-date. It does assume that you know the main players, although there's certainly a lot you can pick up through context. I will say that it made me want to dive into some more spider-stories, though we'll see how far I actually get with that. Too little time, too many comics, you know how it is.
Anyway, on top of the main Spider-Geddon storyline, this volume does contain a couple issues called the Vault of Spiders, which does some brief introductions of different spiders. These were hit or miss for me. Some were okay, some seemed a bit extraneous, to say the least. At least one just felt like the team was trying to spoof on something they'd never read before. Definitely a mixed bag, and brought my rating down. I'd give the main storyline a solid 3.5 stars, but as a collection, these intros were more in the 2-2.5 star range. Just too brief and too disjointed for me.
It's not too bad, probably, when judged against most superhero comic books and Marvel fare; it might've gotten one-and-a-half-stars-rounded-up-to-two-stars on a more generous read, but I just wasn't in the mood for yet another multiversal apocalypse sequel filled with comic tropes.
Thanks to a MacGuffin "cloning" "technology", a previous threat to Spider-Man and the multiverse, the Inheritors (who were huge letdowns in the last run), are back to threaten the Spider-Men. The Inheritors were last seen alive in a "prison" dimension because Spider-Man is a hero. The Inheritors require Spider-Men as a food source and have killed Peter Parker's friends, families, clones, wives, and entire universes, nor can they really redeem themselves since they require Spider-Men as sustenance, but I can live with Peter Parker letting them live because he's a hero and I thought the story over. But now it's back.
It's not as bad as "Somehow Palpatine has returned" but it's up there. At least there's a handwave in the direction of "cloning technology" and "multiversal communication". I can even accept the smart character doing something incredibly stupid with something he personally knows is incredibly dangerous is handwaved away with "arrogance" (he, Dr. Otto Octavius who has taken over a variant Spider-Man's body, calls himself "the Superior Spider-Man"), but dumb tropey shit just keep piling up. There's:
I gave up after the "this book is really deep because now we have the Spider-Men pretending to debate whether they should kill the Inheritors because you know the Spider-Men are going to let them live and we know you know, but let's pretend we're having a deep philosophical debate." I don't care if they do. Book abandoned because I'm not Sisyphus.
Clarification: I didn't just abandon the book, I abandoned the entire series. The quality of writing has done a better job of killing Spider-Man than any of the Sinister Six.
Thanks to a MacGuffin "cloning" "technology", a previous threat to Spider-Man and the multiverse, the Inheritors (who were huge letdowns in the last run), are back to threaten the Spider-Men. The Inheritors were last seen alive in a "prison" dimension because Spider-Man is a hero. The Inheritors require Spider-Men as a food source and have killed Peter Parker's friends, families, clones, wives, and entire universes, nor can they really redeem themselves since they require Spider-Men as sustenance, but I can live with Peter Parker letting them live because he's a hero and I thought the story over. But now it's back.
It's not as bad as "Somehow Palpatine has returned" but it's up there. At least there's a handwave in the direction of "cloning technology" and "multiversal communication". I can even accept the smart character doing something incredibly stupid with something he personally knows is incredibly dangerous is handwaved away with "arrogance" (he, Dr. Otto Octavius who has taken over a variant Spider-Man's body, calls himself "the Superior Spider-Man"), but dumb tropey shit just keep piling up. There's:
- A crack team given a forewarning to prevent the disaster from happening.
- They're on the way and they arrive at the scene at the last second.
- They waste time fighting because "We don't have time to explain!"
- They stop the disaster from happening, but then the disaster literally happens anyway (and at the last second, too).
- A heroine literally sacrifices herself to let everyone escape, everyone thinks she's dead, everyone takes the threat seriously because she's dead, everyone's resolve hardens because she's dead, and of course, she's secretly not dead because ... somehowPalpatine has returnedshe escaped.
- There's a secret lair.
- It comes with a self destruct sequence.
- The base self destructs to kill the villains.
- The villains "narrowly" escape.
- A big hero who has been built up as extremely powerful, is quickly dispatched by a starving, under-powered threat to make everyone take the threat "seriously."
I gave up after the "this book is really deep because now we have the Spider-Men pretending to debate whether they should kill the Inheritors because you know the Spider-Men are going to let them live and we know you know, but let's pretend we're having a deep philosophical debate." I don't care if they do. Book abandoned because I'm not Sisyphus.
Clarification: I didn't just abandon the book, I abandoned the entire series. The quality of writing has done a better job of killing Spider-Man than any of the Sinister Six.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No