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Spider-Man - 3 Comic Review!

Back in Black is almost wrapped up, pretty much all we have left is to watch Aunt May die and Peter's world to unravel that much more. In Amazing Spider-Man #542, Peter squares off against Wilson Fisk, The Kingpin. Kingy gave the kill order on Peter and Family, paying for the bullet that put Aunt May in the hospital. I'm just going to tell you right now that Spider-Man hands the Kingpin his ass and it tops the last time Kingy got his ass handed to him in the pages of Daredevil. Tell you the outcome will not ruin the book for you, because the dialog is what's important. Straczynski drops some crazy lines that I will quote in the years to come in my own day to day, less adventures life that I lead. I'll leave you with one of those quotes from Peter, "What this suit stands for what it means... is something you can never understand. It represents a promise about all the things I said I would do... and all the things I said I would never do... all the lines I said I would never, ever cross because doing so would destroy everything this suit stands for. And that, you see, is why you're confused." Here's some pages, not they are not in order so don't freak out!

In Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #22, Ero's dies... again telling you the end is not going to spoil the book for you because it has some great one-liners and the way it happens is sweet as hell. Also Robbie, who got fired from the Daily Bugle in the last issue, went home to tell his family. Honestly the dialog there was pretty lame and his kid (Yeah he's got a wife and kid, who knew that sub-sub-sub characters had lives outside what writers wrote) blames Peter for Robbie getting fired. Robbie stood up to Jonah about Peter, and his son fells that if Peter had never "Un-Masked" that Robbie would never have lost his job. Flash has a couple funny lines... yeah that's about it. In the next issue Peter and Jonah go head to head, hopefully Peter David will leave the chessey dialog some where else rather than polluting it throughout this book.

Lastly, or at least I read it last, is Sensational Spider-Man #39. Peter and company have a seance to find Aunt May's spirit, they succeed and she tells Peter to let go, live a long life with MJ, and have lots of kids to bring them joy like he brought her. Really I can't do it justice, it was a nice moment and set up the bigger stage for Back in Blacks inevitable conclusion. Eddie Brock goes totally ape-shit, killing a nurse that use to wake him up in the middle of the night and occasionally missed his vein when drawing blood. It was brutal, yet very interesting. Apparently he either has a connection to the symbiote or he's crazy and has deep psychological problems... either way it's cool for his character (who's dying from cancer). In the end Eddie cuts his wrists... a lot, and dives out a window. He was trying to kill Aunt May by the way, but decided not to, so he cut the symbiote out. Low and behold when he wakes up the symbiote is still there but now Eddie is the one in charge!

If I remember correctly Spider-Man : One More Day starts next and after that all the books but Amazing are canceled. Amazing then goes into three printings a month with 4 count them 4 different teams on the book. Marvel is nuts, but I really hope they pull it off. For the whole scoop and the list of teams check out Marvel's page. Frankly speaking I'm looking forward to the art more than the writers, but I have to wonder what happened to Geoff Loeb and J. Scott Campbell's Spider-Man?