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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #624

The origin of the new Vulture! Who is he? Why does he prey on the city’s criminals? And what extreme circumstance could possibly make Spider-Man even consider allying with a creature this deadly? The Gauntlet pits Spidey against his most dangerous foe yet!

WRITER: Mark Waid
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 torippu says:
    March 8, 2010 at 2:22 pm

    Gulp – I think that this puts me 6 or 7 issues behind. I need to get cracking on my ASM reading!

  2. Avatar photo KickAss says:
    March 8, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    The Morbius/Flash issue is one of the best issues I’ve ever read of Amazing Spider-Man.

    Greg Weisman from "Spectacular Spider-Man: Animated Series" wrote that issue.

  3. Avatar photo Peterparker18102 says:
    March 8, 2010 at 3:09 pm

    I really enjoyed last issue let’s hope this is as good!

  4. Avatar photo Fvckstick says:
    March 8, 2010 at 4:09 pm

    @KickAss – That’s the funny thing about ASM…it seems like it always gets some-what average to low ratings on this site, yet always one of the top pulled. A lot of people would say that 622 was one of the worst since BND, but i highly enjoyed it as well and glad to hear someone else did too.

  5. Avatar photo DarthDuck says:
    March 8, 2010 at 4:32 pm

    Outside of 622 I can’t remember an issue of Gauntlet that I’ve given less than a 4 to.  Not ragging on 622 but I know what you mean about the lower ratings.  Perhaps they judge this book on a different scale due to its superiority!

  6. Grandturk says:
    March 8, 2010 at 4:47 pm

    I wish I jumped on rigth after BND started, but I was so beat up from OMD that I wanted nothing to do with Spidey.

  7. Avatar photo JonCrites says:
    March 8, 2010 at 5:20 pm

    I jumped on with ASM #590 and have loved it so much I am reading Web of Spider-Man and all the ancillary titels like ASM presents: and Peter Parker. I have since gone back and picked up all the BND back issues except the New Ways to Die arc. Still working on that.

  8. Avatar photo Conor Kilpatrick (@cskilpatrick) says:
    March 8, 2010 at 5:36 pm

    @Fvckstick: I thought ASM #622 was fantastic. I gave it a 5. also you might want to check your math on average-to-below average ratings. I’m seeing a lot of high 3s and plus 4 ratings here:

    (3 is average.)

    http://www.ifanboy.com/comics/marvel_comics/amazing_spider-man

    The last arc to get a rating at average of below was ASM #608-610. And rightly so, that was the terrible Ben Reilly arc.

  9. Avatar photo cutty says:
    March 8, 2010 at 5:46 pm

    I think the biggest accomplishment in BND year #2 has been getting the art consistent.  The overall narative seems a lot tighter too.

  10. Avatar photo Peterparker18102 says:
    March 8, 2010 at 6:06 pm

    @darthduck
    I know that I hold it to a higher standard. That being said, I also liked 622

  11. Avatar photo DarthDuck says:
    March 8, 2010 at 6:13 pm

    I looked at the link Conor provided and saw that I still gave it a 3.  Turns out that I also hold it to a higher standard!

  12. Avatar photo robbydzwonar says:
    March 8, 2010 at 7:12 pm

    I keep keeping fed up with Gauntlet but I keep buying it anyway.

  13. Avatar photo Fvckstick says:
    March 8, 2010 at 7:33 pm

    @Conor – yeah, i guess just seeing all the 4.7’s and 4.8’s for books like BN, Chew, Sweet tooth, ect, i always think of a flagship title like ASM should always get the same type ratings, but that’s what i was getting at. I think the great thing about ASM is that (between the people at my shop and my friends) it has such a wide range of readers and what some people think is total shit, others completely dig it.

     

    @DarthDuck – Same, hahahaa. 

  14. Avatar photo Cooper says:
    March 9, 2010 at 4:58 am

    I think the majority of people who dislike this series are still bitter about Brand New Day. It’s a shame that so many base their opinion on a story that’s over 2 years old, but that’s the average fickle comic book reader for you.

    I like this series! Gauntlet has been a hit so far, especially considering how fully it is taking advantage of the almost-weekly format – think how long this story would be taking if it were monthly, and compare it to how well paced it actually HAS been. 

  15. Avatar photo Zeppo says:
    March 10, 2010 at 7:09 am

    I liked last issue more than I thought I would. Not a huge fan of the art. I really like new Vulture, and am keen to see where this story goes.

    I would like some more Peter though, last issue was very Spider-man heavy…whose book is this anyway?

  16. Avatar photo AlexG says:
    March 10, 2010 at 4:13 pm

    Every week I think about dropping this, I don’t, and then I’m glad I didn’t. I don’t know why I like this as much as I do now. I just like it.

  17. Avatar photo Peterparker18102 says:
    March 10, 2010 at 5:21 pm

    That was great

  18. Avatar photo cubman987 says:
    March 10, 2010 at 10:59 pm

    I thought this was good until the end, I have a problem with Peter doctoring a photo….very out of character.

  19. Avatar photo DarthDuck says:
    March 11, 2010 at 12:06 pm

    @cubman – I agree, that’s not the Peter Parker I know.  (Go Tigers!)

    I get that it’s ‘The Gauntlet" and they’re trying to dump on him but there are other way to get that point across.  I also found Azaceta wildly inconsistent in this issue, it was distracting.

  20. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    March 11, 2010 at 12:41 pm

    @cubman987  I always saw peter as doing anything for his friends. Jonah has been a part of his life since high school and to see a good man smeared for something he didn’t do is something peter just can’t sit back and watch

  21. Avatar photo cubman987 says:
    March 11, 2010 at 1:20 pm

    @Roi

    Yes, he would do anything to help his friends that is legal and ethical….thats who Peter is.  I mean, he barely even thought about it, he just went and did it (and did a poor job) without even trying to come up with any other options.  That is definetly not how Peter Parker normally is.  Not to mention the photos in no way proved Jonah was innocent, because the whole reason the Vulture was attacking Johnah was because he himself though Jonah made him that way…but whatever, if it leads to good stories coming up I can forgive and just chalk this up to a lapse in judgement for Peter since he’s going through a lot right now.

  22. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    March 11, 2010 at 5:15 pm

    @cubman987  if you’re going that route then he should hang up the costume because he’s been operating outside the law for years and since the registration act went into place and he went awol he’s been a fugitive. doctoring a photo to save the man who put food on your table for years seems pretty tame compared to fighting SHIELD and then HAMMER agents

  23. Avatar photo zenman says:
    March 11, 2010 at 7:17 pm

    Art was great.  Story … not so much.

  24. Avatar photo AlanRob says:
    March 11, 2010 at 11:52 pm

    I gotta agree with @cubman987.  Pete has operated outside of the law for years, but this was a breech of ethics.  I think that a reporter or photographers ethics often supercede law, like when protecting a source.  I’m not saying that its right or even that that happened here but I have to think that as a professional photographer these thoughts have to be in the forfront of his mind.  I think doctoring a photo and making the decision to do so, that quickly is out of character.

  25. Avatar photo Zeppo says:
    March 12, 2010 at 3:10 am

    I agree that Peter editing the photo felt wrong. I didn’t mind him as a paparrazi but that seemed too far.

    I wonder if this will be mentioned next issue, the way Spider-man is written at the moment something happens, then isn’t discussed for another month, this seems important and hopefully the next writer will pick it up.

  26. Avatar photo cubman987 says:
    March 12, 2010 at 2:17 pm

    @Roi   You are right, but that has always been the contradiction with Spider-man and other heroes too, its one of the reasons he wears a mask, so that what he does as Spider-man doesn’t effect his personal life.  What he did here, he did as Peter Parker, so its going to effect his friend, his family, and as a photgrapher, doing what he did jeopardizes the only major career he has really ever had.  Not to mention he did it so carlessly and without any doubt or second guessing.  I mean, realistically he will never be able to be a photographer again.  Also, to me it seems like this makes Jonah seem more guilty, but whatever.  I’m glad you liked it and like I said, if it leads to future good stories I will easily forgive and forget. 

     

  27. Avatar photo Ajs3000 says:
    March 13, 2010 at 5:34 am

    gotta laugh at jonah cowering behind the door …love the facial expression

  28. Avatar photo Crippler says:
    March 14, 2010 at 11:10 pm

    Pete doctoring the picture was out of character.  Way out of character.

  29. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    March 15, 2010 at 2:54 pm

    I think the fact that he did do it carelessly made it in character for pete. His heart is in the right place but he always seems to get something wrong.

  30. Avatar photo JimBilly4 says:
    March 29, 2010 at 6:22 pm

    I think the point was that he was so frazzled and worn out, fighting old villan after old villain, then almost seeing JJJ murdered and he had to track down that tracer to save mobsters but he also knew that the press was about to hang Jameson and he knew the truth and was only making a photo that captured what he had seen with his own eyes… It was an ethical lapse and a mistake, but one he only made because of his exhausted and overstretched mental state. I think it would be in character to do it. What was out of character was the the way Waid portrayed it. He didn’t agonize over it for more than a second. He seemed to gloat over it right up until he was caught. He didn’t seem mentally broken down until afterwards, when clearly he needs to be lsoing it to do something so dumb. A more subtle handling by Waid would have synched up what is actually a great plot twist (Peter banned from photography) with Peter’s do-gooder character. Eh, these things happen in a book coming out 3 times a month.   

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