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Amazing Spider-Man #686 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Stefano Caselli (art), Frank Martin, Jr. (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: The plot twists always hit in the penultimate act. Review (with SPOILERS): Pretty hot issue guys!  Honestly, I thought the first couple of issues of this Spidey-event were a little tepid.  Things seemed [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #685 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (art), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: The classic “middle issue” where the action transitions from the set-up (i.e. is Doc Ock possibly trying to stop global warming) to the big finale. Recap/Review (with mild SPOILERS): This was [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #684 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: After the smack-down that Spider-Man and the Avengers received from the Sinister Six, can anyone save the day? Recap/Review: The first few issues of this Ends of the Earth mini-event had [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #683 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Stefano Caselli (art), Frank Martin, Jr. (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Man and some friends spring into action against the Sinister Six. Review: Maybe I was just in the wrong kind of mood when I read this comic, because some people will probably love [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #682 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Stefano Caselli (art), Frank Martin, Jr. (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Doc Ock’s not doing so well, but what kind of super-villain would go out without one last, evil scheme? A Few Things:  1. Nice lead-up to this event. - Slott and the editors in [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #681 – Review

By: Dan Slott & Chris Yost (writers), Giuseppe Camuncoli (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Frank D’Armata (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: The conclusion of a 2-part story where Spidey & Human Torch try to save Col. Jameson from a doomed space station. A Few Things:  1. Massive credit to [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #679.1 – Review

By: Dan Slott & Chris Yost (writers), Matthew Clark (pencils), Tom Palmer (inks), Rob Schwager (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Detail is provided on the mysterious occupant of Lab Six at Horizon Labs. Four Things:  1. Unsure what this whole .1 thing is about anymore. - I can never [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #679 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor), Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Time is almost up!  How can Spidey prevent the future destruction of New York? Five Things:  1. This is how to pace superhero stories! – Slott really understands how to [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #678 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: A new time-hopping Spidey story kicks off. Five Things: 1. Time travel done right. – This is how time travel should happen, right?  At the very least, this is [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #677 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Emma Rios (art), Javier Rodriguez (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spidey teams up with Daredeveil and Black Cat. Four Things:  1. Black Cat always makes the story better. – There’s no better way to start a heated comment thread than to suggest [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #676 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: It’s an all supervillain throw-down as the Sinister Six attacks the Intelligencia. Five Things:  1. No Spider-Man in this issue. - It’s a very good issue and establishes a lot [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #675 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Giuseppe Camuncoli (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Frank D’Armata (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor), Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spidey & Carlie Cooper work together to take down the Vulture gang. Five Things:  1. Glad to have “Classic Vulture” back. - As I think I mentioned last issue, the redo [...]

Avenging Spider-Man #2 – Review

By: Zeb Wells (writer), Joe Madureira (art), Ferran Daniel (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spidey, Rulk & J. Jonah Jameson are underground trying to save the Mole Man (kinda). Five Things:  1. Again with the great art! - The main reason to buy this is if you [...]

Daredevil #6 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Marcos Martin (art), Muntsa Vicente (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Daredevil has to beat The Bruiser to help some innocents who know too much. Five Things:  1. Fun, street-level story. This is the kind of situation that I usually want to see [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #674 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Giuseppe Camuncoli (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Frank D’Armata (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Island is over and a certain winged foe of Spidey is back. Five Things:  1. Much better approach to the Vulture!  When ASM freshened up all of Spidey’s classic [...]

Avenging Spider-Man #1 – Review

By: Zeb Wells (writer), Joe Madureira (art), Ferran Daniel (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spidey and Red Hulk team up to fight a subterranean threat. Five Things: 1. The team-up is BACK!  How is it that Marvel can publish ~100 titles a month an none of [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #673 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Stefano Caselli (art), Frank Martin (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: The good guys have defeated the threats posed by Spider-Island.  Now they have to deal with the fallout. Five Things:  1. Settles things back down and sets the new status quo.  Lots happened [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #672 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba & Karl Kesel (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: The finale of Spider-Island.  How are the heroes going to stop the Queen and save all civilians who have turned into big, nasty spiders? Five Things:  [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #671 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas & Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: A cure for the spider-infections is discovered, but the bad guys are surely going to try to destroy it. Review: This story is rounding into shape [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #670 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Island transitions into a more serious story. What’s Good: Dan Slott seems to really understand what makes a good Spider-Man story as he is mixing together the elements of [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #669 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Island is in full swing,  Will they find a cure for the infected folks?  Will Peter reveal his secret identity?  And who is the Big Bad who’s been working [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #668 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Island really get’s moving as the good guys start to actually try to solve the problem. What’s Good: I was a little hard on Amazing Spider-Man #667 a few [...]

Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #1 – Review

By: Nick Spencer (writer), Emma Rios (artist), Javier Rodriguez (colorist), Joe Caramagna (letterer), Alejandro Arbona (associate editor) & Stephen Wacker (senior editor) The Story: The Spider-Island spotlight turns onto Cloak and Dagger. What’s Good: Well, the Spider-Island “event” has 28 items on its checklist.  So, that means we’re getting some serious tie-in miniseries action.  Although [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #667 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Everyone in NYC is getting spider-powers.  Oh no!  It’s Spider-Island!!! What’s Good: Honestly, the build-up to this Spider-Island mini-event hasn’t been that great, so expectations were a little tempered [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #665 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Ryan Stegman (pencils), Michael Babinski (inks), John Rauch (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor), Stephen Wacker (senior editor) Aunt May back-up by: Slott (writer), Giuseppe Camuncoli (artist), Marte Gracia (colors), Caramagna (letters), Pyle & Wacker (editors) The Story: Peter is again put into a position where he has to [...]

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