AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #655
Review by: DrCatclops
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Art by Marcos Martin
Colors by Muntsa Vicente
Letters by Joe Caramagna
Cover by Marcos Martin
Size: pages
Price: 3.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
I normally pick up Amazing when Martin is on and sometimes the stories are good or ok little monster of the week type stories, but this is probably the best issue of the series in 20 years not only in artwork, but in script as well.
Martin is a fan favourite and a favourite of mine, but this issue proves that he is a modern master. This is his Amazing #33(aka the one where Spider-man lifts that thing off of him. A scene duplicated but never really pulled off twice.), and not only does he maintain a Ditko-esque style, but he also maintains that grid and that sense of paranoia in Ditko's early issues of Amazing before Romita romanticized everything. But Martin, with pages like the whirling wheel with the crook who killed Uncle Ben running and Uncle Ben in the centre with blood on his shirt and the double page spread of all the dead characters cluttering a colourful and anti-gravitational New York street with Spider-man chasing after Gwen Stacy, proves that he is not simply coverbanding the artists that came before him.
While this is a very artist driven issue, Slott is no slouch. It is a dream issue and while that may cause many to go "Ohhhh come on", it does not rely on the annoying trick of the common dream sequence where we have either a cheat or someone thinking they're David Lynch all over the place. It is meta at times but also grounded in the reality of the character and while I'm not really a fan of pulling out the character's history, reciting that, and that's your story, this issue isn't that. It reflects back on the past while also doing something problematic with Peter and no doubt it will inform the next issue, with this new character Massacre.
But don't take my word for it!
BA DA BA!
Martin is a fan favourite and a favourite of mine, but this issue proves that he is a modern master. This is his Amazing #33(aka the one where Spider-man lifts that thing off of him. A scene duplicated but never really pulled off twice.), and not only does he maintain a Ditko-esque style, but he also maintains that grid and that sense of paranoia in Ditko's early issues of Amazing before Romita romanticized everything. But Martin, with pages like the whirling wheel with the crook who killed Uncle Ben running and Uncle Ben in the centre with blood on his shirt and the double page spread of all the dead characters cluttering a colourful and anti-gravitational New York street with Spider-man chasing after Gwen Stacy, proves that he is not simply coverbanding the artists that came before him.
While this is a very artist driven issue, Slott is no slouch. It is a dream issue and while that may cause many to go "Ohhhh come on", it does not rely on the annoying trick of the common dream sequence where we have either a cheat or someone thinking they're David Lynch all over the place. It is meta at times but also grounded in the reality of the character and while I'm not really a fan of pulling out the character's history, reciting that, and that's your story, this issue isn't that. It reflects back on the past while also doing something problematic with Peter and no doubt it will inform the next issue, with this new character Massacre.
But don't take my word for it!
BA DA BA!
Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent
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