The issue is well-written, and Greg Land's pencils and Jay Leisten's inks as paired with Frank D'Armata's colors are both a treat and a perfect fit. Symbiote Spider-Man: King in Black #5 is so much fun you'll amost wish for more. Read Full Review

Leave it up to Spider-Man to have the best King In Black tie-in. Yes, the entirety of this tale even surpasses the comedic Thunderbolts by various margins.
From the opening shots looking like a "man walks into a bar joke" with Peter taking shots in this intro to the ending with Parker looking to booty call Black Cat, this is the mature Spider-Man with some hair on his chest that I don't feel ashamed to read.
Overall though, this closing issue of this tie-in is heavily focused on the real Captain Marvel - and I was here for every second. Monica Rambeau can do anything from wielding swords to stopping eclipses making this issue essentially David's petition for Rambeau to usurp Carol Danver's position as the Cap - all day, every day.
And of course Greg Land just draws her so gorgeously. I lived in Louisiana, the women over there weren't that gorgeous. Then again, Rambeau is a New Orleans native & I was in Baton Rouge , so the jury's still out ... But not on this book. Peter David & Greg Land just really putting it down here and letting the comic book world know not all veterans are relics.
I just wish the Watcher didn't wipe the characters memories, then the heroes would have been better prepared for this King In Black mess. But, if that happened this story wouldn't have existed so at least something good came out of all the death & destruction from the mindwipe.
Land's Rambeau belongs on a poster stat, with the ebony sword. There's a 90's writer on the title and I bet he even could tell Marvel that merch like that could have saved the company from bankruptcy back then ... But I digress.
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