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I liked the Spider-Geddon story way more than the Spider-Verse one. It was more about the technological aspect of stopping the Inheritors, rather than the Web of Life stuff—there’s still some magical mumbo jumbo in there, but it wasn’t all-pervasive.
I think that there being more Miles in a leading role definitely helped, plus a bunch of different and new Spiders who added to the variety in the story. There’s hardly any 616-Peter Parker in here, so that was a bonus. Nothing against Peter, it’s just that he’s often written with such a hero complex, it becomes grating and one-note.
More female characters in the main story helped, but we needed a better balance. It’s still so focused on the dude Spiders, and Otto being disruptive. At least the women weren’t written as self-sabotaging or useless this time.
The fact that there are two teams fighting to kill the Inheritors was interesting, if not properly sign-posted. My one issue was that Miles’ team goes in head first at the end without a good plan, and Otto gets to be sanctimonious about it.
More new characters meant different personalities, dynamics and interactions, which is really what kept me going with this story.
My biggest grouse with this volume was that it didn’t have all the tie-ins. I had to keep pausing and hunting for the spin-offs for the story to make sense. Reading the spin-offs around the order of the story helped a lot, but I didn’t always get the books read in order.
The Vault of Spiders stories were fun to read—very short, but punchy. I didn’t find any Spiders who I was tempted to read more of, but nice to get such a wide range of characters in.
I think that there being more Miles in a leading role definitely helped, plus a bunch of different and new Spiders who added to the variety in the story. There’s hardly any 616-Peter Parker in here, so that was a bonus. Nothing against Peter, it’s just that he’s often written with such a hero complex, it becomes grating and one-note.
More female characters in the main story helped, but we needed a better balance. It’s still so focused on the dude Spiders, and Otto being disruptive. At least the women weren’t written as self-sabotaging or useless this time.
The fact that there are two teams fighting to kill the Inheritors was interesting, if not properly sign-posted. My one issue was that Miles’ team goes in head first at the end without a good plan, and Otto gets to be sanctimonious about it.
More new characters meant different personalities, dynamics and interactions, which is really what kept me going with this story.
My biggest grouse with this volume was that it didn’t have all the tie-ins. I had to keep pausing and hunting for the spin-offs for the story to make sense. Reading the spin-offs around the order of the story helped a lot, but I didn’t always get the books read in order.
The Vault of Spiders stories were fun to read—very short, but punchy. I didn’t find any Spiders who I was tempted to read more of, but nice to get such a wide range of characters in.