Amazing Spider-Man #542

Whilst I'm sure that we'll see the Kingpin again in the not-so-distant future, this story will serve as something of a minor milestone in the character's history, and hopefully will act as a full stop for the current Amazing Spider-Man storyline which will allow the book to move past an arc which has suffered from being drawn-out over the past few issues, but which could have made for a taut little thriller had the action and plot been a little more compressed. "Back in Black" hasn't been the strongest Spider-Man story ever, but neither is it a particularly egregious mis-step for Straczynski; maybe now that his tenure on the book is coming to a close we'll see him raise his game to the level of high quality that graced his earlier issues on the book, and come up with an impressive finale after a couple of years in which the book feels like it's been treading water. Read Full Review

Ultimate Goblin

Apr 29, 2022

That's my boy. Yeah, it just can't be anything except 10.