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Apr 05, 2021
Leave it up to Spider-Man to have the best King In Black tie-in. Yes, the entirety of this tale even surpasses the comedic Thunderbolts by various margins.
From the opening shots looking like a "man walks into a bar joke" with Peter taking shots in this intro to the ending with Parker looking to booty call Black Cat, this is the mature Spider-Man with some hair on his chest that I don't feel ashamed to read.
Overall though, this closing issue of this tie-in is heavily focused on the real Captain Marvel - and I was here for every second. Monica Rambeau can do anything from wielding swords to stopping eclipses making this issue essentially David's petition for Rambeau to usurp Carol Danver's position as the Cap - all day, every day.
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course Greg Land just draws her so gorgeously. I lived in Louisiana, the women over there weren't that gorgeous. Then again, Rambeau is a New Orleans native & I was in Baton Rouge , so the jury's still out ... But not on this book. Peter David & Greg Land just really putting it down here and letting the comic book world know not all veterans are relics.
I just wish the Watcher didn't wipe the characters memories, then the heroes would have been better prepared for this King In Black mess. But, if that happened this story wouldn't have existed so at least something good came out of all the death & destruction from the mindwipe.
Land's Rambeau belongs on a poster stat, with the ebony sword. There's a 90's writer on the title and I bet he even could tell Marvel that merch like that could have saved the company from bankruptcy back then ... But I digress.
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Apr 18, 2021
This is the ONLY installment to the King in Black crossover I've bothered to read. And let's not tie the next Symbiote series into a crossover, huh? I liked this one better than the last, but I'd really like another that I can easily accept happened during the original clone saga like the first one.
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Apr 05, 2021
This is the weakest Symbiote Spider-Man mini yet! I can't believe they're doing yet another one after this. The first one was nice and pretty good. The second one was a little too much. This one just never went anywhere and didn't really tell a story. Oof.
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Sep 15, 2021
Fine I guess.
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Aug 04, 2021
Knull unleashes Mr. E for a doomed rematch. The heroes defeat him through relentless contrivance (MacGuffin + energy powers = instant win) and entirely too much Watcher-meddling. If my rating looks unkind, please know that this comic hit multiple subjective hate-buttons for me harder than I thought a modern Marvel comic could. The characterization, the humor, the plot development, the art, the resolution -- over and over again, this issue is executed exactly contrary to my tastes.
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