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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #633

“SHED” CONTINUES!

The new brutal, reptilian reality threatens to take down Peter Parker and the very man who set these violent wheels in motion. The Lizard as you know him is gone…in its place something even more dangerous. The “Grim Hunt” can now begin…

WRITER: Zeb Wells
PENCILS: Chris Bachalo & Emma Rios
COVER BY: Chris Bachalo

Price: $2.99
iFanboy Community Pick of the Week Percentage: 2.7%

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  1. Avatar photo TexasZombie99 says:
    June 14, 2010 at 4:55 pm

    Is Bachalo doing pencils for the entire issue this time?  Really irks me when the artist changes midway into the comic, especially when the art is in stark contrast to the original artist work…especially when Bachalo is so unique.

  2. Avatar photo torippu says:
    June 14, 2010 at 5:30 pm

    Doesn’t look like it – Emma Rios’ name is on the cover (and I think that online preview).

  3. Avatar photo Conor Kilpatrick (@cskilpatrick) says:
    June 14, 2010 at 5:47 pm

    Interesting that so many fewer people are puling this one compared to 634.

  4. Avatar photo ScorpionMasada says:
    June 14, 2010 at 7:02 pm

    Marketing/hype works.

  5. Avatar photo Conor Kilpatrick (@cskilpatrick) says:
    June 14, 2010 at 7:54 pm

    @ScorpionMasada: I’ve heard and seen no more marketing for the "Shed" arc than the "Prey" arc, and I get all the press releases.

  6. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    June 14, 2010 at 8:06 pm

    @Conor – I initially thought that Part 3 was end of the arc. That might be what most people are thinking.

  7. Avatar photo ScorpionMasada says:
    June 14, 2010 at 8:19 pm

    Don’t know anything about Prey, but 634 begins the Grim Hunt, which as far as I know is the culmination of the whole Gauntlet storyline.

    I know I was also given a free zero issue for the Grim Hunt story a couple weeks ago.

    And when I said marketing and hype I didn’t mean it in the negative sense.

  8. Avatar photo Conor Kilpatrick (@cskilpatrick) says:
    June 14, 2010 at 9:42 pm

    @ScorpionMasada; I didn’t think you meant it negatively.

  9. Avatar photo Darksud says:
    June 15, 2010 at 12:35 am

    @TexasZombie99 i tend to agree with you, especially since Bachalo hasnt exactly been churning out new work very frequently.

  10. Avatar photo Bendrix says:
    June 15, 2010 at 9:31 am

    I just guess a lot of people don’t like Bachalos artwork. Especially compared to Lark.

  11. Avatar photo cutty says:
    June 15, 2010 at 1:52 pm

    The first issue of this arc was a POW for me, but its really gone downhill ever since.  WAY too much Lizard-speak (monkey brain, we get it) and his new "power" is a reach. 

  12. Avatar photo JimBilly4 says:
    June 15, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    Put me down for liking the Lizard-speak. I feel the Lizard has much more of a "voice" than previous incarnations. I have also loved this arc all along. I wish it was 100% Bachalo, but Rios is good enough and they have done a solid job making sure all the Lizard scenes are Bachalo. ASM has gotten really dark here, Spidey even overtly says there will be no jokes for now, which works considering this is the end ~20-25 issues of pre-Gauntlet, I believe. The wise-cracker will be back, but he has some Kraven-style hurting to deal with first.

  13. Avatar photo Peterparker18102 says:
    June 15, 2010 at 11:36 pm

    @Conor I know a lot of people at my shop read asm based on individual arcs in stead of always grabbing it more than most books maybe there’s a lot of people out there who weren’t interested in shed for some reason, although I really enjoyed it. Or maybe it’s the Stan lee and Marcos Martin strip?

  14. Avatar photo ScorpionMasada says:
    June 16, 2010 at 12:10 am

    I can agree that maybe Bachalo scared a few people away; however, I’ve always really dug on his style even when I’ve felt his storytelling can get really muddled.

    I think his storytelling is improving though.

  15. Avatar photo ScorpionMasada says:
    June 16, 2010 at 12:11 am

    Oh yeah, and issue #634 is a Spider-Man Epic Two Decades In The Making.

    I missed that before. That hype may be a bit much.

  16. Avatar photo UncleBob says:
    June 16, 2010 at 4:10 am

    I loved Bachalo in the Vertigo Death series.  But for some reason, it’s difficult to discern what’s going on in his superhero comic panels.

  17. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    June 17, 2010 at 10:57 am

    This arc along with the Rhino stories are some of the best spider-man stories written in the last 20 years

  18. Avatar photo Peterparker18102 says:
    June 17, 2010 at 11:00 pm

    @roi i whole heartedly agree about the rhino arc, i really liked shed but for me doesnt quite make that list

  19. Avatar photo captbastrd says:
    June 19, 2010 at 12:58 am

    @conor
    The extra pulls are probably due to it being a new story arc and, for this site (if perhaps not overall) because it’s written by Joe Kelly; Kelly, as well as Michael Lark, have been iFanboy favorites, amongst ye three merry men, as well as we your underlings.

  20. Avatar photo cromulent says:
    June 19, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    This was pretty good. I liked the pages where Peter won’t hurt the crowd and accepts oblivion.

  21. Avatar photo cutty says:
    June 20, 2010 at 10:18 pm

    uggghhh, awful

  22. Avatar photo nacho says:
    June 21, 2010 at 10:38 am

    "Shed" was abysmal.  It started boring, and went downhill.  I normally don’t like this artist, but on Spider-Man, he’s not that bad, far better than his work on X-Men.  Still, this was a serious filler arc.  The lizard talked to himself in gibberish for FOUR FREAKIN’ ISSUE.  Then everyone went their separate ways.  Wow, what a great story (rolls eyes).  Ugh.

  23. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    June 21, 2010 at 1:18 pm

    Chicks dig the Lizard

  24. Avatar photo JimBilly4 says:
    June 29, 2010 at 4:41 pm

    The story was the rebirth of the Lizard. Spider-man learned that try as hard as he could, he couldn’t save everyone and not everyone is redeemable. Spider-man has reached a his lowest emotional point, which is where the Kraven people want him. I thought it was a very solid story, but if the Lizard-speak annoyed you (I liked it) and Bachalo is not your thing, I can see this arc annoying the crud out of you.

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