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10
Great!
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8.0
The plot's a bit thin and its purpose in the larger storyline unclear, but Thorne has an excellent handle on who Hobie is and why he's interesting and I'd gladly read more pairings of this character and writer
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8.0
Hobie Brown gets kicked out of his company by Amazon basically and he gets mad. But I don't think all the managers in the world react by wearing a purple costume and sneaking into the corporation's headquarters. Fun issue anyway, it's good to see Beyond being a menace to other people besides Ben and Peter.
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7.5
It's focussed on Beyond's Shady Side.
I really like Hobby. Seeing him again was great. Last time I read about him was Taylor's FNSM. He got FairGray under him. Next Time,I am reading him and getting to know it's not under him makes me sad little bit.
Seeing Ricochet suit was great addition. I really liked it when Peter wore it but now Slingers wear them. Not a big fan of them.
I am really waiting for Beyond Conclusion. We know it's shady(right from Issue 75-76) but conclude it.
TLDR: It's a fun issue which doesn't really add much to Main Story but it just delves more into what we already know.
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7.0
This is just sort of boring. Everything here is competent. The characters are fine. I just don't care about this in and of itself. Its contribution to the larger Beyond narrative seems to be negligible as well. I don't need every issue I read to feed into a larger tapestry. If something is fun and enjoyable on its own, that's enough. This is... borderline not fun. I'll say it, a lot of these reviews are definitely the result of lowered expectations because this is a Slingers comic. And you can't convince me otherwise.
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7.0
I expected to hate this given that Geoffrey Thorne is the guy who made me drop Green Lantern, one of my favorite DC franchises, but I didn't. It wasn't great but it was more than decent. I still liked Hobie as the Prowler more but this works too. The design is strikingly alike to Dragonfly and Dragonflyman though, I feel like that's a problem.
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7.0
This wasn't bad but it also wasn't great. I'm a fan of the original Slingers, their big 12 issues from the 90's. It was good.
I think you are a Hobie Brown fan you might like this more than if you are a Slingers fan. It's mostly about him and I just never really cared for the character. I also think the writer may not have known about the last guy to wear the hornet suit (from the last scarlet spider ongoing series). Also, where was Prodigy? That's the character that made me interested in the Slingers in the first place after reading about him in the Avengers Initiative run. (I love that entire series and if you've never read it, go check it out. Probably one of my most re-read series ever!) So Prodigy isn't here at all. Sad Slingers reunion.
I guess the plot sheds more light on the shady scope of Beyond but the main series has plenty of that.
It's not a bad story, it's a little disappointing and only adds a little dimension to the main story.
If you like Hobie Brown, get this. There's not too much here for you otherwise. more
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6.5
This biographical update on Hobie Brown is sure to be highly satisfying to fans of the character.
For those unfamiliar with or unenthusiastic about Hobie, though, this will likely seem indulgent and pointless. The storytelling is adequate throughout, but it seems like the creators never even considered the idea of accommodating non-fans. Or of making a stronger link to the event than, "This is why this set of characters might show up."
(And fans of OG slingers Dusk and Ricochet are likely to be pissed off at their cameo-level parts in the issue.)
I believe comics should always be trying to win new fans, not just service existing ones.
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6.5
I was definitely entertained throughout the book. Heck, I'd even be interested to see more of Hobie in a solo series again. But the tie to the main book is pretty loose and I stop caring at that point. The art is pretty solid if not a little generic but I liked it.
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6.5
It's readable. It has some moments but, overall just pretty uneventful.
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6.0
This was OK and passable but felt completely out of place and just another way to get $5 from ASM readers. If I knew it had almost nothing to do with the main story I would have skipped it. The art was also passable and nothing to write home about. Waste of time at the end because these threads serve nothing for this story and the editor tells us so on the last page. Stupid.
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6.0
It's very mixed. On the one hand, it's okay. Passable story about Hobie and the Slingers.
On the other hand, very odd placement for this. We haven't seen Slingers since David's Scarlet Spider run and Hobie was a more major player in Slott's Worldwide run.
So that's like 3 years ago since we saw these characters in a Spider-Man story. I really don't understand why introduce these characters now or what purpose do they serve.
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5.0
Just a clusterfuck of exposition, this was also extremely boring and unnecessary
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2.0
*sigh* Just a few more issues until Wells takes over and this Beyond arc can be nothing but a bad, distant, expensive memory.
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10
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9.0
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8.5
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7.5
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7.5
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7.5
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7.5
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7.5
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7.0
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7.0
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7.0
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6.0
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6.0
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6.0
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5.5
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