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crookedtreehouse's review
3.0
Another giant book of ten million spider stories, most of them not really helping my Venom read through.
There's more variety in this collection than previous ones, as it begin with a beautiful Charles Vess standalone story before plunging us back into the Michelinie/Larsen Dear God There Are So Many Villains In This Storyline era. The six part Sinister Six storyline should satisfy fans of classic Spidey villains as you get your Doc Ock, your Green Goblin, your Hobgoblin, your Sandman, your Vulture, and your Mysterio. We see the death of a long-term minor Spider-Man character, and then Even More villains show up during a time where Spidey loses his powers. It's A Lot.
The Venom story is near the back. Once again, you really learn nothing new about Brock or Venom in this storyline, it's just a three issue brawl where Spidey has to think of a New Way to outsmart his foe. The ending is satisfying once again, but there's no character growth, it's just punch, run, web, run, punch, run, last minute solution. While the solutions have been different every time, the storytelling beats have been pretty much the same.
Still, Michilinie's run continues to be mostly quality Spider-stories with a depth of characters (even if some of the characters themeselves don't have a ton of depth) and enough action to keep long-time Spider-Man fans enthralled.
There's more variety in this collection than previous ones, as it begin with a beautiful Charles Vess standalone story before plunging us back into the Michelinie/Larsen Dear God There Are So Many Villains In This Storyline era. The six part Sinister Six storyline should satisfy fans of classic Spidey villains as you get your Doc Ock, your Green Goblin, your Hobgoblin, your Sandman, your Vulture, and your Mysterio. We see the death of a long-term minor Spider-Man character, and then Even More villains show up during a time where Spidey loses his powers. It's A Lot.
The Venom story is near the back. Once again, you really learn nothing new about Brock or Venom in this storyline, it's just a three issue brawl where Spidey has to think of a New Way to outsmart his foe. The ending is satisfying once again, but there's no character growth, it's just punch, run, web, run, punch, run, last minute solution. While the solutions have been different every time, the storytelling beats have been pretty much the same.
Still, Michilinie's run continues to be mostly quality Spider-stories with a depth of characters (even if some of the characters themeselves don't have a ton of depth) and enough action to keep long-time Spider-Man fans enthralled.
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