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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #623

The Gauntlet grows deadlier! It’s Spider-Man versus Peter Parker when the two sides of Spidey go to war! Pete’s a sworn defender of the freedom of the press–but the Web-Slinger needs to contain a certain news item about the new Vulture that could blow the city apart!

WRITER: Mark Waid & Tom Peyer
PENCILS: Paul Azaceta
COLORED BY: In-House - Julio Herrera
LETTERED BY: Jason Paz
COVER BY: Michael Lark

Price: $2.99
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  1. Avatar photo OttoBott says:
    March 1, 2010 at 2:26 pm

    That Lark-drawn Spiderface bears an uncanny resemblence to a JRjr. Spiderface.

  2. Avatar photo vadamowens says:
    March 1, 2010 at 2:27 pm

    Yeh for no Morbius/Van Lente!!!

  3. Avatar photo tomhayday says:
    March 1, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    @OttoBott i wish everyone drew like JRjr. I hope this is up to scratch Waid. I wasn’t to enamoured by his last arc. 

  4. Avatar photo campbell says:
    March 1, 2010 at 3:29 pm

    Got to get this just for the cover

  5. Avatar photo Crippler says:
    March 1, 2010 at 4:47 pm

    Last issue was NOT good.  I guess that’s going to happen sometimes when you go near-weekly.  Otherwise, The Gauntlet, as a whole, has been one of my favourite arcs since BND began. 

  6. Avatar photo oldmanlogan88 says:
    March 1, 2010 at 4:55 pm

    i was wondring when we were going to find out mre about the new vulture or red vulture as i heard someone call him recently

  7. Avatar photo cubman987 says:
    March 1, 2010 at 5:14 pm

    I love this cover, I know the whole bad guy reflecting in Spidey’s eyes has been done to death, but hey, it works.

  8. Avatar photo KickAss says:
    March 1, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    I really don’t like this interior artist.  Get someone else, PLEASE!!!  More Michael Lark artwork, less of these other people!

  9. Avatar photo OttoBott says:
    March 1, 2010 at 6:16 pm

    Counter-point: Paul Azteca strikes me a less chiaroscuro-obsessed John Paul Leon and is pretty freaking amazing however you slice it. To me, anyways.

    I dunno. I’m on the fence about whether or not to start picking this monthly up again. Part of me wants to follow this weekly in trades, but the other part of me is too lazy to figure out Marvel’s horrible ASM trade labellings system on Amazon.

    Seriously, there are no volumes listed or anything.

  10. Avatar photo cutty says:
    March 1, 2010 at 8:32 pm

    I keep waiting for The Lizard or Hobgoblin to be on the cover. 

  11. Avatar photo Fvckstick says:
    March 1, 2010 at 8:43 pm

    oh man, i would kill for a Hobgoblin arc. Preferably done by Slott.

  12. Avatar photo robbydzwonar says:
    March 1, 2010 at 11:01 pm

    Still buying this run since BND, just haven’t been enjoying it nearly as much since Red Headed Stranger.  Could it be almost time to take my $10 a month (plus seven percent NJ sales tax) elsewhere?  Only time will tell, but I have a feeling it is not going to be much more time…

  13. Avatar photo jwaesch says:
    March 1, 2010 at 11:20 pm

    Thanks to Conor, Cubman, Peterparker18102 and vadamowens specifically and everyone else who commented last week, I will be picking this up!  Im currently catching up on the gauntlet and checked out some other issues here and there including 600, which was indeed fantastic!  Looking forward to Azeceta’s art.  Very unique style.  Only other book i’ve seen with him on art was BPRD 1946.  I always wondered where else to find him.

  14. Avatar photo KickAss says:
    March 2, 2010 at 1:51 am

    @robby- You could be buying every issue for $1.38 at http://subscriptions.marvel.com/combo/Amazing_Spider-Man_36-issue_Pack

    Be smart, don’t spend more when you don’t need to.  You can even cancel anytime.

    That’s right, $1.38 an issue.

  15. Avatar photo Zeppo says:
    March 2, 2010 at 3:08 am

    Not a fan of Paul Azaceta, I thought his panels looked stiff, with no movement (or illusion of movement I suppose since this isn’t a motion comic). I like Mark Waid, and I liked 24/7 that introduced this Red Vulture, so overall I have high hopes.

  16. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    March 2, 2010 at 12:48 pm

    Man i would love a hobgoblin arc written by Joe Kelly with art by whoever the hell he wants. I miss Hoby

  17. Avatar photo DarthDuck says:
    March 2, 2010 at 3:27 pm

    Put me down as another that would love some Hobgoblin action!  It has to be better than last issue, right?

     

    @kickass – when do you get your books?  Does Marvel get them to you on time?

  18. Avatar photo KickAss says:
    March 2, 2010 at 4:30 pm

    @DarthDuck – Yes they are usually within a few days of Wednesday, later or sometimes earlier.  For $1.38, it can’t be beat.  I get about 10 Marvel books through subscription, save hundreds a year on those titles.

    DC has subscription too.

  19. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    March 2, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    @kickass I’ve always wanted to do that and if my comic shop ever closes i will totally do that for all marvel and DC books. As it stands i love my comic shop. the other one in town is run by crazies so if my guy ever closes no way am i going to them every week.

    How do they ship them though? like how are they packaged

     

  20. Avatar photo misterckent says:
    March 2, 2010 at 7:07 pm

    More love for the Cover.  It totally made me stop and look at it.  I almost liked it better had when I didn’t notice the Vulture at all.

  21. Avatar photo KickAss says:
    March 3, 2010 at 1:02 am

    @Roivampire- They’re shipped with a cardboard wrapped with plastic.  Very sturdy, but it depends on your mailman and mailbox how it will be delivered.

    Try it with just 1 title first, see how you like it.  After that, they offer an even cheaper discount for any other title you buy.  I like the savings most of all.  No tax, no shipping.

  22. Avatar photo Peterparker18102 says:
    March 3, 2010 at 6:42 am

    @darthduck
    I also have subscriptions and my comics are always ridiculously late, like 2-3 weeks. I called and they basically said tough shit, but the savings are tough to beat

  23. Avatar photo cubman987 says:
    March 3, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    I tried subscribing once and hated it, my books came late and a couple of times my books were in bad shape and I had to go buy another one at the comic shop anyways.

    As for this issue, this seemed to get things back on track after a somewhat lesser issue last week.  Really enjoyed this a lot. 

     

  24. Avatar photo Peterparker18102 says:
    March 3, 2010 at 8:42 pm

    @cubman i didnt hate last week as much as some but agree this isssue was in a whole nother leauge great stuff i am so happy spidey is so good

  25. Avatar photo Peterparker18102 says:
    March 3, 2010 at 8:49 pm

    @jawesch

    so what did you think? 

  26. Avatar photo vadamowens says:
    March 3, 2010 at 9:43 pm

    Great issue.  I’m really sort of ignorant when it comes to the ‘new’ vulture.  But I’m quickly falling in love with Azaceta and of course Waid is normally solid.

  27. Avatar photo cubman987 says:
    March 3, 2010 at 11:41 pm

    @vadamowens

    Not a whole lot has been revealed about the new vulture really, you could have picked up everything from this issue honestly.  Based on the solicits, it looks like we will learn about his origin in the next issue.

  28. Avatar photo comicBOOKchris says:
    March 4, 2010 at 1:07 am

    This issue kinda fel flat for me…not bad, but nothing too great. I did like the new Vulture stuff though.

  29. Avatar photo vadamowens says:
    March 4, 2010 at 7:09 am

    @cubman Cool thanks.  Go Cards:)

  30. Grandturk says:
    March 4, 2010 at 8:29 am

    A little flat but not the worst book of the week

  31. Avatar photo DarthDuck says:
    March 4, 2010 at 9:58 am

    Getting back on track, not as good as it has been but leaps and bounds above last weeks.

     

    Am I the only one who missed the naked cowboy joke?  Can someone help me out with that?

  32. Avatar photo cubman987 says:
    March 4, 2010 at 10:33 am

    @vadamowens

    Boooooo!

  33. Avatar photo vadamowens says:
    March 4, 2010 at 11:46 am

    lol. I figured you’d like that one.

  34. Avatar photo Peterparker18102 says:
    March 4, 2010 at 8:03 pm

    @darthduck
    they work stern show references in from time to time
    spidey used the Artie Lange waaaah once and int letters once the answer was just babooey
    I think it was just a gag reference

  35. Avatar photo AlanRob says:
    March 4, 2010 at 8:35 pm

    A couple of things about this issue felt off to me.  First and formost was tthe art.  Spidey seemed overweight at times and the inking in more than a few panels seemed heavy handed. The other thing was Spidey’s dialoge. Though Waid is usually good at this, but here it just didnt resonate.

    Oh and @vadamowens and cubman987  GO ‘STROS!!!

  36. Avatar photo Zeppo says:
    March 5, 2010 at 7:36 am

    The art impoved greatly this week, from the last time this artist was on the book. It seemed more fluid. The story was fun too. Yay – Spider-man!

  37. Avatar photo SCOOTMAN says:
    March 6, 2010 at 7:32 am

    i thought it was a good issue, but I can not get aboard with this art. it was alright back in the Electro arc but as AlanRob said, there’s is one page where Spider-Man looks obese and it was pretty distracting. wish someone else was on art duties

  38. Avatar photo captbastrd says:
    March 7, 2010 at 2:34 am

    I really like Azaceta’s art, but agree with the fat-Spider-Man panels. His Electro arc had a similar problem whenever Spidey was running away from our perspective; looked like he had a, if I may take a term from the popular lexicon of 5 years ago, ‘badunkadunk’.

    @darthduck
    The Naked Cowboy is a NYC quasi-celeb. He plays guitar in his underwear and cowboy boots & hat in Times Square.

  39. Avatar photo nuclearman says:
    March 29, 2010 at 5:15 pm

    Love the art … this was top notch.

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