Its akin to a theater director stepping in for an actor, visibly separating himself from the control and management of the play, and donning a costume to enter that world of drama or comedy. Or tragedy. Osborn entrance into the footlights as the Green Goblin is the climax of the penultimate act, which positions our characters towards a resolution. And it isnt going to pretty. Read Full Review

One final, relatively small complaint: since Dan Slott is so clearly using voice-over captions exactly like thought balloons, why doesn't he just use thought balloons? If there's one character who can support this narrative device without it feeling dated, it's Spider-Man (as opposed to say, the Mighty Avengers). Read Full Review

For how much was going on in this issue, it all felt like setup for the upcoming issues and I've yet to be wowed by a single issue of this event. It's not bad, but not great either. Read Full Review