One of the things I find strangest about reading comics is that depending upon your mood, what else you have read and a whole list of other factors you can take away different things from the same book. When I first read this I absolutely loved the art, but on a second and third read through days later I am not so certain. Do not get me wrong, the art is anything but bad, but the stylistic nature of it is starting to grate on me now. I think when I read this for the first time (for the weekly roundup) it was the first book I read that evening; I had not had time to look at other books and become immersed in different art styles at the time. This has everything I normally ask for in a comic; the style is consistent, the characters are immaculately drawn, highly detailed and the backgrounds immersive, even the special effects are not overused. However what is really striking me now is how slender and almost malformed the characters are.
Before anyone gets the wrong impression, I am not saying that they are anything like as bad as the wasp-waisted women made famous by Liefield, everyone in this book is probably a possible human body shape, but realistically not likely. Reilly and the Kaine are the usual overly muscled physiques, but with tiny waists and hips. Their shoulders are enormous and they have muscle definition that would make Bruce Lee cry in shame, but their joints, legs and necks look incredibly vulnerable. Sorry, I should say that they are all incredibly toned and have not a single gram of fat on their bodies, apart from Jessica who still has utterly enormous… well you know where I am going with that.
One of the biggest complaints about event comics is that all the tie ins are just a way of grabbing more cash by making you buy other books. Normally this breaks down into two categories, either books that are apparently part of the event but solely because it gets a single page mention; or because every tie in comic is a necessary read to understand the overall story. I think this event has done it perfectly. You will get the full story by reading all the tie ins, they genuinely all add something extra to the story, but the main numbered story (all in Amazing Spider-Man) is written in such a way that it catches you up on the bits you would have otherwise missed. However you would need to confirm that with someone just reading the main event to be sure.
One of the best parts of this event is that the ‘bad guys’ are not simply evil maniacal monsters who all act the same and go after the heroes like rabid zombies. They are all different, all having their own plans and desires which works incredibly well as they have an overall goal, but the ones you come across in the individual books all respond differently. It leaves you with each tie in having its own villain who is part of the whole and it gives the Scarlet Spiders their own target who could actually be killed in this book, unlike your usual tie in where you know that the big bad guy cannot possibly die because that has to be saved for the main comic. And unlike your usual bunch of heroes, these are pretty much all expendable as they come from so many different places, we are left with a comic full of villains and heroes and no idea who will actually survive the last issue.
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