This nonsense excuse for a comic book actually did something very unusual to me: it made me angry. I'm usually the optimistic fool who focuses on the positives and doesn't waste time getting upset by a comic book. I'm the idiot that kept giving Zeb Wells a chance. Not anymore. I've had it with this run. I'm out until the creative team changes and that doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon.

This issue is a complete mess apart from Ed McGuinness's art which is mostly very good. You have the cover advertising "Gang War" as coming soon. Why? It has nothing to do with this issue apart from the random Maggia scene that's dropped in halfway through. This is a Limbo Rek-Rap story. The tone is all over the place. One minute it seems fairly serious hinting at a deeper mystery behind the Repossessor's actions. The next minute it's dropping cringe-inducing attempts at slapstick "humour" with Rek-Rap's painfully unfunny dialogue. We have characters randomly turning up for a page or two for no reason. There are endless "interludes" that go nowhere and do nothing.

It truly amazes me that ASM is still supposedly a "top seller." How? I don't think half the people buying it are even reading it. They can't be otherwise they'd drop it for sure. This comic doesn't deserve such loyalty.

Apologies for the rant but I've had enough. I'll give the upcoming Ultimate Spidey a chance in January. Three issues to hook me. I miss good Spider-man comics, I really do.