Oscar Bazaldua does some great work with the art in this issue. I was really impressed with the way Spider-Man and Teresa looked in the issue and even Chameleon was well done. Doom was well done, but didn't have the visual menace that he usually does. Read Full Review

Doctor Doom looks more menacing than ever and Spider-Man is in over his head as Nick Spencer continues to develop the first stages of Marvel 2099. Read Full Review

While Spencer's script is still strong as ever, ingeniously making use of Spidey's continuity in creating an interesting moment between brother and sister, the presentation is so distracting that the art almost takes you out of the experience entirely. Read Full Review

A lot of interesting bits are boring when mixed all together. Oh what a tangled web we weave" Read Full Review

Nick Spencer's Chameleon/Doom/2099 arc reaches its forth chapter, and it may be the worst of the arc. This issue slowly drags us towards an indiscernible solution thought up by Spider-Man, until it just ends. How on earth does one make a Spider-Man/Dr. Doom story so boring is beyond me… Read Full Review

Great plan, Spidey.

Yuck, this art. The story is pretty decent though.

" Teresa--Sis--Look at me-- if anyone can understand that, it is me, remenber ? "
- SPIDER MAN (PETER PARKER)

The execution of this story is not any better. I can't wait for this poorly executed 2099 nonsense to end. Art was OK.

Very much treading water here.

Art was a big step down compared to Gleason.

Looking forward to moving away from the current juddering arc.

I haven't been liking this arc lately. Aside from Teresa and Peter scenes, and Miguel being back, this feels too big and too sudden.

Im not sure what this was or how it relates to 2099 at all. It was a subpar issue that just seemed thrown together. It wasnt horrible but really felt like a missed opportunity to focus on whats really going on with the story.

I almost wrote "Aside from being a jarring fill-in, there's nothing wrong with Oscar Bazaldua's art." But that's not true, is it? Weak settings, bad anatomy (be on the lookout for Giraffe-Neck Spidey), and an unfortunate lesson learned at the Greg Land School of "with different costumes and hairstyles, you can get through a whole career knowing how to draw just one woman."

The lackadaisical script really lives down to the art, producing a thoroughly mediocre comic. Mediocre comics are okay, they're not disasters -- but as others have noted, there is something a bit disastrous about Marvel filling its most famous title with such feeble storytelling.

Conceptual nitpick: It undercuts the magicalness of the mutants achieving serial resurrection if the same ability (in the form of "uploading your consciousness to the cloud," ugh, be more buzzwordy) is available to z-list chumps like Hitman.

Also, writing/editing nitpick: Somebody call the Department of Redunancy Department on "assassination attempt on his life."
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This issue is not too good, this one and the last one to be honest. The art in this doesn't even come close to Gleason, and the story has already run its course, and it's literally been only 2 issues, they're really trying to push the 2099 banner to come back, and while that would be great, I don't trust any of the creators to make good on their promise of this series. I hope Spencer can get back to the Peter Parker angle he was working with in the first 20 issues of his run because right now, for me at least, it's running into similar problems as Slott's run, where he ran out of ideas very quickly and just put Spider-Man in the midst of ungrounded and very unrealistic situations.

Nick Spencer's run on ASM is just plain bad. This latest Spider-man 2099 arc is unfocused and totally disrupted the Kindred story just when things were starting to get interesting. In contrast, take the Immortal Hulk. This book is also published bi-weekly and has maintained a consistently high quality since its launch. The Immortal Hulk has also had the same creative team (Al Ewing & Joe Bennett) on the book from the very first issue. It seems ASM can't have an artist pencil more than two consecutive issues without introducing some fill-in artist. If this were a B or C list Marvel character I could somewhat understand. This however is Marvel's flagship character. Expectations should be higher. After 35 issues of mediocrity, it's time to call this a failed experiment. more