The Amazing Spider-Man #14
Writer: Dan Slott
Pencillers: Oliver Coipel & Giuseppe Camuncoli
At last, after countless issues of epic stories featuring almost every single Spider-Character at Marvel's disposal Spider-Verse has come to an end. I'm a little sad that it's over, that several of these characters I've come to enjoy and invest my time in will likely fade back into obscurity. This is the nature of a massive event though, and a massive event this was. Which brings me my ultimate question about this event that I so thoroughly enjoyed: Why did it peter out?
This last issue doesn't measure up to the stakes set by the previous issues. With plenty of side-stories and minis building up suspense and expanding the scope, this finale felt rather one note. It ultimately fell into a massive brawl that felt like it had little consequence. The one major highlight was Otto being Otto and doing the unthinkable. Clearly, he's in a desperate position knowing his ultimate fate, so out of everything it'll be exciting to see how he tries to squirm his way out of this situation. Besides that, we got a cliched Peter trying to sacrifice himself to save everyone that felt totally out of place with the rest of the story, and a very bizarre ending with him and Silk (as cute as they are, stop trying to make fetch happen).
Excusing the slightly lackluster story, the book is filled with gorgeous art from two of the best artists to handle Spider-Man in recent years. Oliver Coipel and Giuseppe Camuncoli rock this issue with tight pencils that develop a clear sense of action and emotion. While it can sometimes be cluttered (specifically Coipel's sections) it never truly interrupts the flow of the story and the switch between artists didn't take me out of the book. As always, I think Camuncoli is one of Marvel's most underrated artists who seemingly only gets better with every issue he works on.
Even though this is considered the finale, It's not really the end of Spider-Verse as well still have a lot of strands to wrap up in the epilogue, and even though this issue was a little lackluster I'm definitely looking forward to that.
Pencillers: Oliver Coipel & Giuseppe Camuncoli
At last, after countless issues of epic stories featuring almost every single Spider-Character at Marvel's disposal Spider-Verse has come to an end. I'm a little sad that it's over, that several of these characters I've come to enjoy and invest my time in will likely fade back into obscurity. This is the nature of a massive event though, and a massive event this was. Which brings me my ultimate question about this event that I so thoroughly enjoyed: Why did it peter out?
This last issue doesn't measure up to the stakes set by the previous issues. With plenty of side-stories and minis building up suspense and expanding the scope, this finale felt rather one note. It ultimately fell into a massive brawl that felt like it had little consequence. The one major highlight was Otto being Otto and doing the unthinkable. Clearly, he's in a desperate position knowing his ultimate fate, so out of everything it'll be exciting to see how he tries to squirm his way out of this situation. Besides that, we got a cliched Peter trying to sacrifice himself to save everyone that felt totally out of place with the rest of the story, and a very bizarre ending with him and Silk (as cute as they are, stop trying to make fetch happen).
Excusing the slightly lackluster story, the book is filled with gorgeous art from two of the best artists to handle Spider-Man in recent years. Oliver Coipel and Giuseppe Camuncoli rock this issue with tight pencils that develop a clear sense of action and emotion. While it can sometimes be cluttered (specifically Coipel's sections) it never truly interrupts the flow of the story and the switch between artists didn't take me out of the book. As always, I think Camuncoli is one of Marvel's most underrated artists who seemingly only gets better with every issue he works on.
Even though this is considered the finale, It's not really the end of Spider-Verse as well still have a lot of strands to wrap up in the epilogue, and even though this issue was a little lackluster I'm definitely looking forward to that.
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