358. Web of Spider Man vol 1 #25 ... Marvel ...

Well to wash away the bad taste from our mouths (so to speak) of yesterday's blue-ish comics, let's move to perennial favorite, Spider-Man and once again, we have to reiterate to those who do NOT know, we are NOT fans of Spidey and thus our reviews may be biased. So there you have it! You have been cautioned

This story is rather straightforward. Aliens from outer space ... one believes in war and has just acquired a super powered battery that can turn his war machines into super war machines ... while another believes in peace. As said battery is being sent unmanned through space, it got caught in the signals of an earth satellite (I kid you not) and landed on earth

What is actually cool when I think it over is the clever sequence of related events and that final twist on the policeman is quite clever ... but that's neither here nor there ... all the while ... our main man Peter is dating his Aunt to a nice dinner and when they are heading home, Marvel did a DC with a mugger stealing from Aunt May

Well, naturally, Pete goes in pursuit and also happen to end up picking up the weird battery not realizing what it was ... and before you know it, said nasty alien comes looking for it. There is the usual fight here and there but nothing over the top and before you know it, the double sized pages are used up and we are left with a predictable ending

Now in today's world of decompression story telling this tale would have worked better as it would give us great artwork ... and give us time to built the tension and a proper climactic battle instead of a few panels here and there

Nothing special about this special anniversary issue ... just another day in the life of Peter P ... and Spider-Man ... in short buy it for your collection if you are a collector. Otherwise, don't bother

Ratings: 4/10