This is a review of the Spider-Man story, i didn't read anything from the new Venom run yet but i'm really looking forward to see what Al Ewing, Ram V and Bryan Hitch will do with the new status quo after King in Black.

I used to skip FCBD issues because i always found them really meh, but through the years i started to appreciate them for their honesty in the sense that i kinda know what to expect, a little fun story of about 8 to 10 pages that gives the reader some hints at whats going on in the title at the moment and what is gonna come in the foreseable future, while serving as a good way to bring new readers to this crazy little media that we all love so much.

The humor here is so campy that it feels like it can be a hit or miss depending of the reader, but for me it works, i think Zeb has a great sense of humor for Peter and i think it's a little similar to the way Spencer wrote him at the beggining of his run, which at least for me makes everything feel more consistent. I'm still conflicted about Chasm, i didn't hate the ending of Beyond but i also didn't love it, for me Ben being a villain again is just spinning the wheels at this point and the last two pages here didn't give me much hope, but i really like Zeb and i'm looking forward to reading Dark Web in the coming months.

I've said this in my review of #1 but damn it feels so good to have JrJr back, i know a lot of people don't like him, i know his glory days are already past him, but man even now his style fits so perfectly with the character, i might be biased here because he's my favorite artist of all time but i don't care lol. Although his pencils have been pretty underwhelming in the past couple of years, leaving to the inker and the colorist to do a lot of heavy lifting, i still think his narrative skills are unmatched, and that he can still surprise everyone that has been skepctic with his work in the past few years. Oh, speaking of the inker and colorist, shoutout to Scott Hanna and fellow brazilian Marcio Menyz, they did an amazing job in #1, and did another amazing job here, and i'm sure they will keep it up in the next issues of the main series.

Overall another fun FCBD for our favorite webhead, and one of the must fun FCBD issues i've read in the last few years, although i think no FCBD Spider-Man story will ever top the Spencer and Ottley issue of FCBD 2018, i mean, they had Big Wheel....nuff said!
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I thought ASM was bad then I read the Venom part and boy it was worse. This was dumb. I'm glad it was free. It will not get anybody through the door back to a local comic book shop to pick up either but I hope I'm wrong.

Romita's art here is exactly what I was worried about for the main series. I hope this is the worst it'll look in the main run. The dialogue here is also very bland. Peter's quips aren't funny, it's largely expositional and the tease at the end wasn't impactful.

Nothing in the strips gets me half as excited as the editor's page news that Jed MacKay gets another Black Cat series.