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I liked it, but Eddie felt much more aggressive here, than he did before. I didn't really get why. Art was good

This issue was great. Art was killer and I really like how Kelly writes Peter. It has been very consistent and I like how it continues from themes that were set up from the first issues. Hug with MJ was peak. Just peak.

And Cormac? Well, I am still not a massive fan of this sudden change. But what makes me okay with it is that there has been some hints and that Peter is just as confused as the reader is. I like the dilemma here and how it continues themes Kelly is clearly fan of.

Only true negative? Why wasn't this part of #1000. This story made it better and left #1000 even weaker. Had this been part of it, instead of random Triple H story, I would've liked it much more.

Sure, this reads better in trade. But you shouldn't tell anyone "read ASM #1000 in trade".

But. Enough about #1000. #1001 is a blast and I'm glad it is.more

I was very hesitant with this. After disappointments of ASM #1000 and USM as a whole, I didn't really have any interest in this. I was afraid this would be just an edgy retelling of AF #15.

Thankfully, I was very wrong. This is really good and I'm hooked. It feels modern and unique. This is something very different, but also familiar and it doesn't lose the humanity of Peter Parker and his world. We get that and I really like that.

Art just works for me. It just feels fitting. PKJ has said he has ideas for this until #50 and if we get stuff like this monthly, sign me up. I'm locked in.more

Today is the day of disappointing comics. How Ewing ends his 5 year run on Venom is certainly a way to end it. What a nothing burger. I don't really have words to describe my feelings, because while ASM #1000 I have a lot to say, this I don't. It's just: "meh". Everything about this is meh.

Is this review identical to Venom #262? Yes. But if Ewing can recycle dialogue for like 3 books, I can do it for two reviews.
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Today is the day of disappointing comics. How Ewing ends his 5 year run on Venom is certainly a way to end it. What a nothing burger. I don't really have words to describe my feelings, because while ASM #1000 I have a lot to say, this I don't. It's just: "meh". Everything about this is meh.

Is this review identical to Queen in Black #5? Yes. But if Ewing can recycle dialogue for like 3 books, I can do it for two reviews.more

It's annoying for me to tell how I feel. Because I am left with a heavy sigh. This book has pretty good regular ASM issue in it, a great what if from Hawley and Gleason, and bunch of small side-stories, where I read and go mostly "pretty good" (or pretty bad), capped off with really good retelling from Martin and Slott.

But what is this about.

Yeah. Spider-Man. But. Whole ASM is about Spider-Man and is about different stuff, but usually these milestone issues have some sort of connecting tissue. This one doesn’t have really anything. And I think it might be one of the worst milestone -issues I have read. Not because of the content. But because of this being #1000 and such a lackluster one.
1000. And this is what we get?

First story from Kelly and Larraz is a good ASM story. But it’s just that. An ASM story. Generally ones we get for milestones don’t just suddenly end. Especially when things are getting interesting. I think of the last ones Nick Lowe edited. 800. 850. 900. 950. And now 1000. This is the first one where the big story from main writer just ends. Why not have all the main pencillers with Kelly to make this a bigger story? Why waste McGuiness to a Triple H story. This

feels like Act 1 to three-act story and sure, we are getting continuation in 1001 and 1002, but we should get them here!
I knew I would feel this way. If this was just #36 of Kelly’s run, this would be really good. Is Cormac’s turn sudden? Yeah. It is supposed to be and it’s a great way to have the focus on the trio of characters, instead of having multiple cameos and characters. Generally for stories I mean. But for milestone issue? It just ends and I am left with “so I will need to wait a month to get the full picture of this story” and it kinda annoys me. It does build up well from the first arc, but it also just leaves me wanting more. And in bad way.

Hawley and Gleason are next and that I liked. It had different setting. Sure, focus on Gwen was meh, I was never a massive fan of her, but I liked the world enough and Gleason was wonderful.

The rest are just general milestone small stories. Some good, like Slott/Martin and Matteis/Ramos, some okay like Bendis/Immonen, and the rest are meh. But they aren’t really connected to anything. I don’t feel celebration of different eras of Spider-Man. I just feel like I read stories they wanted to make. And sure, that’s nice, but there is a reason why we don’t mix issues from clone saga, New Avengers and Big Time era together in one trade. Sure, they might all be good issues, but if there is nothing to connect them, there is no reason to have them together.

I said that if Lowe was still on-board by 1000, I would stop ASM. And it’s hard not to. All this happening just feels because he doesn’t do good job. And what annoys me is that he has done much better job previously! 800, 850 and 950 were all good (850 maybe not so, but it was cohesive at least). This? It doesn’t feel like a milestone issue. It certainly doesn’t feel like a #1000 issue of ASM. It just feels like someone glued together a pretty good issue of ASM, what-if and side stories.

And I don’t know what is sadder. That was the intention from the get-go, or they couldn’t do better. ASM deserves better. First Marvel character, the flagship one, getting the 1000th issue, deserves better.more