Well . . I seem to be on the 'negative train' lately. I assure you that it's not because of anything that's happened in my personal life. It's just . . some of the comics I've read lately just aren't up to the quality that I expect from them. But the hard part is . . it's not any one thing. Sometimes it's the story . . sometimes the art. Sometimes it's a combination of both. Here's the positives from this issue . . Simone Bianchi give us a beautiful cover with Spider-man and Morbius. Unfortunately . . from there . . it's all down-hill. Luke Ross provides the art for the back-up story. It looks pretty good. It illustrates a story by Greg Wiesman about Flash Thompson. It's actually an ok story. It illustrates Flash's character dealing with the grief of losing his legs. My only complaint is that Spider-man isn't involved at all. Which actually ends up being ok, because the focus of the story is mostly about Flash. But . . the timeline of the story seems really kind of strange, and inconsequential. Now . . the art for the Spider-man story was by Joe Quinones. There were some bright spots . . some amazing looking panels, but . . there was also a lot of it that looked kind of rushed. Or not finished. It almost looked like there were 2 different artists on this story. Anyways, the story revolved around the package of Peter's blood that he and the Black-Cat re-obtained last issue. After the adrenaline of their adventure, during their post-coitus conversation, she tells him that she has sold it. Why? Because of the money. It's who she is. Long story short, she sold it to a wanna-be vampire, who in turn put it in Morbius' hands. He's trying to cure his friend, Jack Russell . . Werewolf by Night. He thought that this blood would help. Peter is used by an old acquaintance of Morbius', Martine, to find him. They end up killing her, the blood is destroyed, but then Peter volunteers to help Morbius and his friend. Fred Van Lente wrote it, but . . it all seemed kind of 'simple' to me. It seemed more like a back-up story, than a lead one. Which I guess essentially is my complaint about this issue. It just seemed like a book with 2 back-up stories in it. While I do enjoy catching up on the various aspects of Peter's life . . I just wasn't overly thrilled with this one. Sorry!
Sunday, February 28, 2010
the Amazing Spider-man #622 - Marvel
Well . . I seem to be on the 'negative train' lately. I assure you that it's not because of anything that's happened in my personal life. It's just . . some of the comics I've read lately just aren't up to the quality that I expect from them. But the hard part is . . it's not any one thing. Sometimes it's the story . . sometimes the art. Sometimes it's a combination of both. Here's the positives from this issue . . Simone Bianchi give us a beautiful cover with Spider-man and Morbius. Unfortunately . . from there . . it's all down-hill. Luke Ross provides the art for the back-up story. It looks pretty good. It illustrates a story by Greg Wiesman about Flash Thompson. It's actually an ok story. It illustrates Flash's character dealing with the grief of losing his legs. My only complaint is that Spider-man isn't involved at all. Which actually ends up being ok, because the focus of the story is mostly about Flash. But . . the timeline of the story seems really kind of strange, and inconsequential. Now . . the art for the Spider-man story was by Joe Quinones. There were some bright spots . . some amazing looking panels, but . . there was also a lot of it that looked kind of rushed. Or not finished. It almost looked like there were 2 different artists on this story. Anyways, the story revolved around the package of Peter's blood that he and the Black-Cat re-obtained last issue. After the adrenaline of their adventure, during their post-coitus conversation, she tells him that she has sold it. Why? Because of the money. It's who she is. Long story short, she sold it to a wanna-be vampire, who in turn put it in Morbius' hands. He's trying to cure his friend, Jack Russell . . Werewolf by Night. He thought that this blood would help. Peter is used by an old acquaintance of Morbius', Martine, to find him. They end up killing her, the blood is destroyed, but then Peter volunteers to help Morbius and his friend. Fred Van Lente wrote it, but . . it all seemed kind of 'simple' to me. It seemed more like a back-up story, than a lead one. Which I guess essentially is my complaint about this issue. It just seemed like a book with 2 back-up stories in it. While I do enjoy catching up on the various aspects of Peter's life . . I just wasn't overly thrilled with this one. Sorry!
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