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It's fine. It just doesn't really make me excited for QiB. Nor does it feel like that event is starting next month.

While reading this, I just can't ignore this feeling. Of feeling nothing. This screams whatever to me and it's hard to enjoy anything this offers. No one is surprised it ends with an ass-pull deus ex machina because the first 4 issues did nothing to buildup to a resolution.

I don't know what happened with Campz. His Ultimates run was so good until this started.

Also Ultimate Potential-Man is back and Wolverine acts like he was invited to the party. That was pretty funny. more

I have the same feeling with this as I had with Ultimate Endgame #5.

Whatever.

All this just feels like damage control after Marvel realized no one liked UE and no one wanted Ultimate Universe to end. And with the success of Absolute universe from DC, they are just scrambling while trying to figure out what to do.

Ultimate Potential-Man's fate is actually funny. It really is "no responsibility, no consequences" which was the theme of Ultimate Potential-Man vol 3. more

Yeah this was whatever for me.

This feels like a very forced retcon for the upcoming issue 1000. It's powerful don't get me wrong. May keeping this all this time makes sense in context. It's devastating. I hope it doesn't all turn out to be a fake out. That would be the most tragic. I also just don't see what it really adds to the world of Spider-Man. Is this going to be a recurring element or just a one off to sell an issue? T hat's my hang up. The art and the writing are very good, even if the main story is interjected with a weird villains bidding on other villains tools thing we've seen in countless books before. I really wish Gleason would just stick on Spider-Man for a long time. He does it so well.more

This just works for me. I have such high nostalgia for Slott's writing and BND -era. And it feels very fitting. You could read this between issues of BND era ASM and you wouldn't notice anything. I also like callbacks.

Is it perfect? No. Does it do anything revolutionary? Nope. Does it have charming art and feel very comfortable to read? Absolutely. For me at least. And it's all I wante d from this.more

I am a bit mixed on this.

Don't get me wrong, I loved the art, villain stuff was good and writing for May was excellent.

But I just wish there was less action and more talking. I just wanted more of that and not Blood Market.

Snyder and Dragotta just keep cooking with this.

Proof that miserable conservatives are not the demographic for this comic.

This is some peak, powerful Spider-Man. I'm sad the space saga is already ending. The small retcons to Peter's younger years don't change much at all but further enforce his views of helping others and mystifying Uncle Ben, always the paragon.

It was kind of surreal seeing Norman Osborn in a Spider-Man suit, broken and bloody, toasting the sentiments of Peter Parker with J. Jonah Jameson. I love it, don't get me wrong. This is one of the best ways to take these characters. I will forever be upset if Norman gets reverted back or Jonah and Peter have a falling out. Peter's old supporting cast have come and gone and this new venture is the best I've seen in years. I do wish there was more May and that the romantic interest with Raelith. I doubt that continues once he gets to Earth. It's unfortunately incredibly obvious what they are doing with Brian. I assumed he would eventually grow resentful of Peter for climbing the ladder so quickly and stab him in the back. To just become an undeserved victim to Ben's laziness/lack of technical abilities that Peter has feels like shortchanging this character who could have had more development. Make that fall more tragic. Now he's going to hate Peter and Peter will have no idea why.
The art here takes a significant drop from the last issue JRJR was on. No one was consistently on model, lines were stiff. Felt phoned in. Even this cover is atrocious. It's so hard to decipher what is going on in any of the panels with this robot creature abducting Goblins. I'm reserving judgement but I am played out on Goblins and it all being interconnected. We just need two Goblins. Green and Hob and Green is shelved. Hopefully for a long time. No Queens, Kings, Demo's, Proto's or the like.more