DEAD IS THE NEW RED!
In order to finally destroy Spider-Man once and for all Norman Osborn joined himself with the Carnage symbiote, becoming the Red Goblin! Here at last are the untold stories of the Red Goblin's rein of madness and mayhem! So grab your greatest goblin gear and rend your raiments red, for the Red Goblin rides again!
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This issue serves well as a scary story for Halloween, featuring terrible violence and a scary psychotic on the loose, but it also doesn't quite feel necessary. Call it dabbling in what we already could have guessed at rather than revealing anything new. Each story is fine and has sparks of terror in them, but it's hard to grasp why we should care. Read Full Review
This anthology may be going back a few months in history, but it is by no means "back to formula." Read Full Review
Story-wise, it's a hodge podge of plot points that only have one thing in common: an unsuspecting victim being senselessly murdered by an alien troll. Read Full Review
I’m not shocked at all to be giving this kind of score to this one. Marvel’s lack of faith was transparent and frankly, appropriate. Red Goblin: Red Death #1’s stories are all over the place, yet relatively tame. This makes for a wholly uninteresting anthology. The art is good but not enough to make you want to stop and soak it in on any page. Maybe if it featured some actual carnage, that would be enough to make it dumb fun, but alas, you should pass. Read Full Review
To close out the spooky season, Marvel releases a horror driven Norman Osborn tale that doesn't have enough meat or development for the character to warrant this title's $4.99 price tag. Read Full Review
This fills in some nifty but undeniably non-essential holes in the Red Goblin arc. The first two strips are decently put together but punishingly pedestrian. The final strip is the high-wire act, trying bravely for some deeper meaning and artsy symbolism. It's not fully successful, but the attempt is exactly what this anthology needs to keep it out of disappointing territory.
What's the point of this? It would've made sense if it was released over a year ago, when Dan Slott was writing Red Goblin's arc on ASM. Or make this a some sort of flashback tie-in to Absolute Carnage, which would probably make so much more sense considering that the event is literally happening just now. Anyhow, I did not mind this book, it's just that it seemed completely pointless.
The first story was a bit odd because back during the Red Goblin arc, Norman never hesitated to kill. But it was fine. The second story was probably my favorite as it actually tied into Going Down Swinging and it had the best writer on it. The third story was probably my least favorite. I just thought it was bad from the art to the writing.
" So many souls. So little time. "
- Red Goblin
Ned Toblowsky? Bing!
Second story was for sure the best story, love you Sean Ryan. The others were quite a bit less good, so overall they dragged this one down.
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