You know how every now and then we always bitch about how some comics are so dense that if you dive into it, you will get lost. Well this 2015 relaunch of Spider-Man feels exactly like that. Now as we all know Spider-Man is Peter Parker who is a never do well, down on his luck guy who does the best he can with what he hasHere, we open the issue with him as filthy rich having his own huge conglomerate, board meetings, owning several buildings as his own internal monologue tells us and then he has hired Hobie Brown, the Prowler (guest star from old old old issues) as his bodyguard of sorts and is working with SHIELD! So basically he is the layman's version of Iron Man!
Say what?
Yup, that's exactly what went on in our minds as we read this issue ... totally lost and we have to wonder if this is in regular continuity or not. Hey don't get us wrong. We are the types who enjoy a good story more than anything but this? It feels so jarring
And the story while interesting is not all that as apparently one of the new tech from Parker gets stolen by Zodiac (a group of criminals who take their names after astrological signs, have real or fake powers and obeys the study of astrology - in short they can be nasty but rarely effective) ... so here Peter as Spidey goes after them together with the Prowler ... and boy were they lucky that there wasn't twelve of the Zodiac assembled as otherwise it would have been curtains
The fight isn't all that either
And with the interior artwork kinda weak similar to the cover ... you can bet it will be a while before we visit another issue of this particular run
Ratings: 3/10
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