This comic epitomizes what is wrong with DC. You have two mercenaries in Snyder and Williamson leading the pack of mundane and uninspired writers. These are cannibals, picking at the feet of their betters, scraping the tombstone library of story-past for any epitaph to sustain an event or story arc or whatever you want to call the derivative droll they put out.

Long gone are the days of wonder, the imaginary beyonds of Fox and Broome and Haney and Kanigher.

Julie Schwartz would be turning in his grave. Jack Kirby too.

There is a reason for the alienation of true auteurs in this industry: Morrison, Moore, Gaiman. Because even as they try to bring comic books back to their roots of poetry and mythology, the Empty Hand manifests itself to reap. They came, they conquered, and they departed after realizing there were better things to do than play back & forth with the carrion crows who run DC.

DC has been hanging under the fangs of the Empire of Mammon since the Golden Age, when Liebowitz and Donnenfeld stripped the company from its original owner, Major Wheeler-Nicholson.

What's happening now is more insidious. An ultra-pollution of the narrative, a sacrifice submitted to strobe-torture before being disemboweled. These people are going to ruin everything just to feed their wallets.

If you don't believe me, read this book:

"WHAT IF EVERYONE JOINED THE JUSTICE LEAGUE?"

"WHAT IF DARKSEID AND THE SPECTRE MERGED?"

"WHAT IF DARKSEID FOUGHT EVERYBODY AND BEAT THEM WITH HIS LAZER BEAMS?"

"WHAT IF HE MADE A BAD UNIVERSE WHERE EVERYTHING IS BADDER AND MORE BAD?"

"wait, don't we already have Earth-3 and the Antimatter Univ-"

"WHAT IF EVERYBODY WAS A DARKSEID AND THEY HAD HIS LOGO?"

"WHAT IF EARTH ONE WORKED OUT BECAUSE IT WAS WRITTEN BY US AND WE MADE EVERYBODY TOTALLY EDGY AND ULTIMATE AND MARK MILLAR AND METAL AND FRANK MILLER AND BRIAN AZZARELLO AND SO COOL?"

"DO YA GET IT? 52 DAYS EARLIER? 52 DAYS LATER? REMEMBER THAT WEEKLY BOOK WRITTEN BY TALENTED WRITERS? REMEMBER THAT PUBLISHING INITIATIVE THAT FUCKED EVERYTHING UP?"

"WHAT IF DARKSEID WAS MAD ABOUT BEING DARKSEID, BUT WHAT HE REALLY WANTED WAS TO BE DARKSEID IN DARKSEID LAND, WHERE BEING DARKSEID WAS COOL?"

"WHAT IF ALL OF OUR CHARACTERS EXPLAINED EVERYTHING THAT WAS HAPPENING AND SAID EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE THINKING AND FEELING AND THEIR MOTIVATIONS WERE SIMPLE AND EASY TO UNDERSTAND? MAN, WRITING COMICS SURE IS EASY!"

"HEY, IT'S THE MIRACLE MACHINE! REMEMBER THAT? I READ A GRANT MORRISON COMIC GUYS! I LOVE LOOKING AT ALL THOSE PRETTY PICTURES IN THAT GRANT MORRISON COMIC!"

"DARKSEID DARKSEID DARKSEID OMEGA BEAMS DARKSEID APOKOLIPS I DIDN'T REALLY GET FINAL CRISIS BUT I READ THE DC WIKI PAGE DARKSEID DARKSEID DARKSEID!"

If there is one redeemable quality, it is the art. Sampere and Craig are very talented. It's a shame they have to waste their time drawing absolute nonsense. At least they get a check. more

My enjoyment of this series comes from a few things. First, I'll buy anything with Kaine. I love that character. Second, I'm optimistic this series will fix Ben Reilly. Marvel has been screwing with Ben since Slott brought him back. I hate what Wells did to him and hope that this series fixes him. So I'm enjoying the series because so far, it looks like that might happen.

I'm not a fan of Druig. I find the Eternals marvels most boring set of characters so I would prefer a better villian. I'm actually rooting for mole man here, who also sucks but I'll take him over Druig.

All in all, I enjoy reading it and look forward to the next issue. So it deserves a high rating. more

I enjoyed this quite a bit. Kaine is one of my favorite characters so I'm on board when he shows up. I also HATE Ben Reilly as a villian, (screw you Zeb Wells and your historically crappy Spiderman run) so I'm hopeful this series fixes that. Whether it does or not, the set up was a lot of fun, and I'm excited for what comes next.

Weird Science Marvel Comics can bolt.

At least Ultimate Spiderman is interesting... I knew this was basically a comic previewing upcoming spiderman stories. It's all crap though.

Ultimate Spiderman and Superior Spiderman are good, but they have not much to do with what's in here. I hate Zebs Wells Peter Parker, it's the worst take on the character that has ever been in comics, I hate what's happened to Ben Reilly, and now they want to screw with Kaine. Why revert to degenerating again? He's progressed beyond that. It's like all the writers know about the characters is a quick Wikipedia scan. How do these people even get jobs as writers? Tell better stories Marvel. You won't get my money for the crap you put out, and I advise others to skip the garbage they hinted at here.

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So I love this series, and as an ending this was almost perfect. It needed a few more pages though. Otherwise, 10/10. Kind of a big one - what happened to Emily? Is she dead??? Kinda wish that was a bit more clear

This is the start of what may be one of the best Spiderman stories ever told. It is so good to enjoy Spiderman again, because I love the character, and it hurts to see how utterly horrible Wells is at writing anything spiderman, but Hickman knows. It's a new story, and so far a very good one, but the heart of it all, this is Peter Parker. When I read any story, the character is the most important part for me. Hickman knows Peter and writes it well. It's not whoever that imposter is over in Amazing Spiderman right now.

And the art - just get Checcetto to draw everything. I have always loved this guys art, and this is fantastic. I know art is subjective, but so are reviews, let's be honest. There's no such thing as objectivity in a review. So my subjective response to this, is go buy this comic, it's so good! If you have any remote interest in Spiderman, this is the comic to buy.

I hope this does well so we can keep getting good spiderman stories. This gets a 10 because there was not a single thing I did not like here. Every page was great, and I reread it as soon as I finished. That's the sign of a great comic. more

The Good - I enjoyed the art. Pretty solid throughout. I wasn't familiar with the artist before but I'm on board.
- The new villain is potentially interesting. Not much reveal but I like her design. The new supporting character seems alright... we'll see how it goes. I miss the supporting cast of the last run, which was awesome, so changing it up completely is risky. I'm not sour to it though.

The bad - I HATE the trope of introducing a new character and having them easily defeat an OP character. It's the laziest thing you can do in story telling and I hate it. It makes me want to lower the score more than a six as I think about it. I love the character of Genis-vell, and was maybe one of the few who loved the recent mini-series (last yearish) so I was mainly buying this because he was in it. It's like writers don't realize how insanely powerful that guy is. He takes down Thor, and smacks gods around. Then again, this is the same trope that writers use with other OP characters like Thanos and Galactus. These are not characters to be treated lightly with their insane power levels. It weakens the writing if they are just used to show how powerful your new character is. You new character that will most likely disappear once you are done writing this story.
Another thing that really bothered me was after Yuna (was that her name...?) puts on the negabands, she's told they won't come off unless she dies. This is right after Genis just had his hands cut off and that's how they were removed. How about cut her hands off also? You literally just did it seconds ago to the last person to wear them. Instead, you get her being pushed out a window.... so dumb. Just cut her up. It just happened to Genis, that would be so much easier than pushing her out a window. That would make too much sense. Stop writing dumb villains just so you can make the plot work. Have your characters doing practical, intelligent things and make a plot out of it. It's a better story that way.

On second thought, this bad writing deserves a 5, not a 6.

Good art, potentially interesting direction for the series but bad, lazy writing to get there. I don't want to see Genis as a mind controlled bad guy. That's stupid also.

I'm disappointed that comics in general (aside from a few gems) really suck right now. That's a rant for another day. I really want to like this series since Thompsons run, and most Captain Marvel runs actually, going all the way back to Mar-vell from the 60's, have been something I've enjoyed quite a bit. Don't be a lazy writer! more

"Hey, here's a great idea. Let's relaunch The Punisher with a new character nobody has heard of, just make sure it isn't Frank Castle."

"How about Joe Schmo from Nowhereville?"

"I like it. Then let's give him an almost identical origin story, just change it to the family being killed in a house explosion rather than the crossfire from a Mob shootout."

"Nice! Don't forget to give Joe Schmo a helper who's good at tech, but let's make it a young woman this time."

"Genius! What about the costume?"

"It doesn't matter really, just make sure there's no skull logo on his chest."

"OK, we can do that. Wait, the skull thing is pretty cool. I know, let's redesign it so it looks worse than the last redesign. We can pretend it's just part of his body armour."

"Great! I love it. The fans will love it too 'cos they've never seen anything like our new idea before. We deserve a raise we're so clever." more

This is a 10 because once I finished, I wanted to read it again. McKay's Avengers run has started with an awesome first arc. This is the type of story I read the Avengers for. High stakes, good characters by a writer who seems to understand them and the art is great.

This is a reminder of why I read comics.

My rating is for this entire series. I love it! This series made me love the character and I wish he was used more. I would buy anything featuring Genis-Vell right now. The stories are good, the characters are written well, it's heavy on humor and very entertaining. Then as the series reverts to number one, it takes shocking turn while still keeping the humor only it gets rather dark. The psychological breakdown of Genis-Vell is one of my favourite storylines.

I'm still giving it a ten despite the abrupt ending the series had. It takes very meta in the final issue, which does kind of suck to be honest, and then Marvel just threw Genis into Thunderbolts and did little with him, let killed him off for so long! Comic book characters rarely stay dead as long as Genis did and that's just not fair to such an interesting character. I also loved the mini-series that (last year??) came out but since then, I'm pretty sure Marvel has just left him out to dry again. Put him on the GotG at least! That book sucks so bad right now, it could use a boost from Genis joining up! more

This is a classic Kang story that really should have been an event comic. This was before the flood of events and kept only within the Avengers, so no cross overs! It also showcases some great lesser known characters who were in the Avengers at the time. Sometimes the C-list characters are more interesting than well known ones.

This is one of the better Kang stories. He's got some great ones (like in Uncanny Avengers) and some horrible ones (looking at you, Marcus from Avengers 200) but if you like Kang, check this out more

This was a delightful surprise. I didn't know a new Alpha Flight series was coming out so I picked it up going in blind. I've always enjoyed Alpha Flight and this is a good start from a writer that seems to understand the characters. I'm not a fan of heroes fighting other heroes unless there is a very good reason (most stories just end up making the characters look like childish idiots) so we'll see how that turns out in the end but so far it's working for me. more

This issue was great and so far this run is off to a great start! It makes me want to hunt down other titles that Jed MacKay has been on since I haven't read much of his work. I'm just happy that the Avengers is good again! New villains can be difficult to make interesting but when it works, it's awesome to have someone new around to cause trouble.

Bendis no longer has the worst Guardians run. Collin Kelly takes that title now. Which is sad, because I love the Guardians and didn't hate Bendis on it, he just didn't really get what the team or characters were about. Collin Kelly seems to actively hate the characters and the team. Let us hope his run is short and we can retcon this crap asap.

Kev Walker is alright on art. It's what I expect from him. Neutral. Brings it up to a 4 more

This is turning out to be the worst run of Guardians. Maybe something interesting will happen but so far it's boring, the characterization is absolutely brutal and the art is subpar. None of these characters act like who they are. It's a crappy mix of MCU guardians blended with the knowledge of someone who skimmed a Wikipedia page on starlord. Ewings run was solid and completely ignored here.

Heroes going evil, or fighting among each other is the stupidest trope in comic story telling and I feel like that's all so many hack writers know how to do lately.

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This was a great series. Great final issue. It's been my favorite ongoing for the last 2 years. It will be missed.

It's crap. Don't waste your time or money. Kamala will be back soon enough with whatever stupid retcon another writer will be forced to do. Peter and his supporting cast of once great and interesting characters, will likely suffer longer and also force another writer to find how to make a ridiculous retcon for all this.

This was a very disappointing read...

The last run of GotG was really good. Two issues into this one and it feels like the writer doesn't care about what came before, just what slightly mimics the characters from the movies. Star lords development from the previous run, like it never happened. There was even a line about how in the old days they would've just come to steal the mysterium... now I've read all GotG comics and when exactly were they a bunch of thieves? Maybe that line could be justified for the MCU GotG, given that Peter was raised a space pirate there, but the team was organized as basically an expendible group against the Phalanx. They were pulled from a Kree prison but the fascist kree will arrest basically anyone. From there, when they formally became a team, it was Star Lord actually wanting to save the universe. Individually they have some sketchy pasts but as a team it was always pretty much Avengers of space.

Disrespect to continuity aside, the plot is... alright. I'm vaguely interested in what happened to Groot but I generally think stories of heroes going bad are not good stories so there better be a fantastic explanation. Maybe there will be but these type of stories more often than not don't end well. more

I kind of want to give this a 10 just because it's nice to enjoy reading Avengers again. Great first issue! The art was good, the set up was good and the team is pretty good. I really like having Wanda and Vision back in Avengers, it's been way too long since they've been on the team.

I do hope they squeeze in some lesser used Avengers into the team eventually. I like to see Simon Williams back, or even Black Knight. Team books like this are great for balancing the popular regulars like Thor and Iron Man, with some lesser known great characters. more

I love this series right now and I'm disappointed it will be over after the next issue. This issue in particular continues to great pacing, great character work and the art is great. This is why I read comics. Fun characters, exciting story and well done art. Good times.

Worst Spider-Man Run Ever. It would have been better to have stayed with Nick Spencer.

I love the character of Mar-vell (Genis and Phyla also. I'll buy whatever the Mar-vell family shows up in. Teddy feels like the odd one out but he's alright too.) I also have no interest on Marvel bringing Mar0vell back to life, he's a character whose legacy makes him interesting. So reading about him again in a flash back was great. Groot is fun, it's his comic, but it's the Mar-vell stuff that really made me happy with this issue. more

Not perfect but so much better than the main Amazing Spiderman series, it's a breath of fresh air to get Peter written like he is really Peter parker and Spiderman being Spiderman. I'm not yet sold on the Spider kid thing but I'm still here and overall it felt like reading Spiderman so that's a win.

Each issue gets worse and worse.

If I could give this a zero I would. This reminds me too much of the abortion that was called "Sins Past". Here Wells takes yet another love of Peter's life and turns her into a straight slut. Like MJ, who loves Peter can't keep her legs shut for a while??! This is all an extension of keeping Peter and MJ seperate, cept I dunno that this can ever be reversed now. Fuck these pricks for doing this. I literally made an account here just to write this review. Further, this is another use of " magic" to separate Peter and MJ, the writers legit can't even come up with a good story. Also, Peter is transformed into a useless moron here. He literally does nothing but get his ass kicked and his heart ripped out. Good to see the writers hate the fans. more

It was a fun ride.

As a whole, I prefer the previous spderverse stories but that doesn't make any of this bad. It gives a look at some new spider people, none which I found very interesting but maybe someone else out there liked the new characters.

I don't know if Slott forgot about Kaine and then remembered so he tossed him in at the end. At least he tried something. I love Kaines character so at least he made a brief appearance.

All in all, I'd be on board for more spiderverse stories but would prefer it focus on already established versions, the new ones were boring and didn't really matter much in the end. more

What's with all these bots spamming a 10 rating? This was trash.

Wells continues to ruin the character of Peter Parker. I hope at the end of this run, it uses the terrible cliche of it all being a dream. That would actually improve the story telling.

Romitas art is pretty good. Not amazing but pretty good.

So bad, it’s unbelievable. I’ve been reading comics for about 30 years. Hands down, this is by far the worst era I’ve ever lived through. When the Big 2’s characters are in the state they’re in… just, Jesus Christ, I don’t have words.

To build this up as much as they did and ultimately involve characters nobody gives two fucks about… I can’t. Fuck Marvel and fuck Zeb Wells. Seriously. I enjoyed him, back in the day. He wrote a story where Shocker and Hydro-Man met up at Denny’s.

But this is shit. The fact that I’m buying more DC than Marvel at this point, as bad as DC also is… I wish my LCS would just retire. That would be my real-life jumping off point. more

The 1.5 is that high because Kubert is always nice to have on the art side. Good solid artist.

The writing though... I can say in confidence that Wells is my least favorite Spiderman writer of all time. I'd take Past Sins or OMD over this trash. Not only does he destroy the character of Ben Reilly, but his Peter is easily the worst ever interpretation of Peter Parker that has ever been made. At this point, it would be an improvement to the writing to have someone, anyone, just wake up and realize it was all a dream. One of the worst tropes in writing would improve this nonsense.

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