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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.