The Amazing Double Feature (Review)

Writer:
Last time in the Amazing Spider-Man: Eh idk.

Time to look at issues 33 and 34 of The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2. By J. Michael Straczynski and drawn by John Romita Jr.

This is the cover for issue 33, Spider-Man is chillling with our pal Ezekiel and stuff and things, but it seems like Ezekiel has told Spidey that he has a bug on his arm. 

The comic begins with Spidey trying to fight against Morlun, but none of his punches seem to actually harm him. Morlun manages to throw him across the street. Morlun tells Peter that he does not get tired, he doesn't give up, and he eventually will catch him. 

What follows is a pretty damn good fight scene, Peter keeps trying to hit Morlun but nothing seems to work. It seems like Spider-Man is about to die, so Peter runs away... But then Morlun shows up again! He wasn't lying when he said that once he found Spidey, he would always be able to find him. He manages to run away from Morlun and goes to Ezekiel for help, but it's just too late for him. Peter is going to die and there's nothing anyone can do about it. NOTHING.

Not much happened in this issue, at least not enough for funny jokes or commentary, but JMS has done a good job on his first story of his run, if this is storyline number one, imagine story number 10! It's just amazing. 9/10... How did this storyline make people cry?

Issue's over. But the story goes on! Time for issue 34.
The cover shows Spider-Man breaking through a web. Not much to comment on, but I will say something about the covers of this run. Before "The Other", most covers of Amazing Spider-Man from this era (2001-2005) really just depicted Spider-Man swinging or doing something cool. I find that a little lazy, but I will say that I like the vibes.

Ezekiel doesn't help Peter, so Petey Boy decides to just fight Morlun, and if he dies, he dies. Morlun is threatening citizens and causing lots of destruction, and Spidey isn't gonna take this well, so he keeps trying to attack Morlun in order to make him get away from the citizens. After once again failing to overpower him, Spidey runs away because... That's pretty much the only thing left to do.

He takes a quarter from a scummy person pretending to be a homeless blind person, and he uses that quarter to call in sick at work. Morlun is attacking citizens once again, so Spidey tries his best to defend the citizens of NYC. He runs away AGAIN to call Aunt May for a bit, but he runs out of time. And whaddya know, Morlun is back! It looks like Spider-Man is doomed! But then, in a shocking twist, Ezekiel has a change of heart and decides to help Spidey kick some Morlun ass! 

However, Morlun manages to actually take Ezekiel's power and kill him... Nooo, he was my favorite character... Damn... Turns out Ezekiel had enough Spider-Power/energy or whatever to actually satiate Morlun's hunger for a bit. Ezekiel's body falls in the water, and Spidey swims for over 20 minutes to see if he can find his body, but there's nothing. 

Using the little time he has until Morlun is hungry again, Peter takes a bit of Morlun's blood from the damage he took on the fight, and he realizes that his blood is an amalgam of every kind of cell, purest DNA ever, Peter decides to make his blood NOT pure by using radiation, which might stop Morlun once and for all. The issue ends.

I imagine how surreal this storyline must've been for readers back when this came out, one minute you have Spidey going on a few adventures that aren't really remarkable and memorable, and now you have stories that make you question Spider-Man and why you love his stories. JMS is cooking with this storyline, and I cannot wait to see how this first storyline ends. John Romita Jr.'s artwork is so good, but I do see some of the criticisms, and I feel like his modern work isn't really as good, but his artwork on this storyline is pretty good. 9/10.

One more issue left, and I know it's gonna be good... 

One thing that I'm wondering is if I should review the entire JMS run, because I own quite a few issues... But I don't really wanna review anything from the Civil War era... Fuck it, I will review the entire thing, and no one will stop me.

Tags
I'm Edward. I am a blog writer.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular!!!!

Reviewing things I haven't seen!

Writer:
That new Spider-Man TV show just came out, but I don't have Disney+, everyone's talking about it and I don't want to be an outcast, so I'm gonna do the ballsiest thing ever, I'm gonna lose my credibility as a reviewer! I bet the other review sites are gonna be so proud of me... Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, written by Jeff Trammel and directed by Mel Zwyer, a show inspired by the comic book titled "Spider-Man", and also a little bit inspired by the MCU films featuring "Spider-Man", it was announced somewhere around 2022, and the first 2 episodes were released yesterday. Man, I remember when we thought the show was NEVER coming out.  First of all, the intro features a rap song that samples the 1967 Spider-Man theme song. The track is titled "Neighbor Like Me"by the Match Club (featuring Relaye and Melo Makes Music... Okay, Melo, now I know that you make music and not sandwiches). Let's talk about this theme song. First off, ...
Read more

The Lowest Point In Modern Spider-Man Comics.

Writer:
One thing I didn't want to admit is that I am not a fan of how the recent Amazing Spider-Man comics have been going lately, it seems that the series is not in good hands and that nothing is going to get better... So, why exactly did I not want to admit this? Well, because I try to be optimistic when it comes to Marvel comics, I really have hope that Amazing Spider-Man is gonna be good again, I have hope that the comics about my favorite character will have good storytelling, so what the fuck is going on? It all started in 2006, with a little comic called Civil War, Spidey had his identity revealed and it led to a lot of chaos in his stories, Aunt May was dying again (this time because of a bullet wound), and no hospital will do anything because apparently Spidey is a criminal or something like that. This led to One More Day, where Peter just cannot let go of Aunt May and in order to save her life, he sells his marriage to Mephisto. This comic was shitty, not the worst, but it was a...
Read more

THE LATEST NEWS.

Writer:
 Welp, I'm pissed at the world because the news suck, they're not what I want to hear, they're so inconsiderate... so, I'm gonna make MY OWN news. Plus, I'm gonna have you guys play a little guessing game and whoever guesses correctly is gonna win... A NO-PRIZE! WORLD NEWZZZ: That's right, everyone, WORLD WAR III is about to happen, and there's nothing you can do about it. You're fucked. Get ready to see violence for the next 6 or so years. The US government has finally decided to open Area 51 to the public, everyone can just go there and take a good look at whatever the hell was going on in there... looks like that Area 51 raid was pointless. You can now just  NASA just announced that it looks like Earth is getting another moon (again) soon, and it is... Venus? Wow, that is just insane. I just wonder what's gonna happen to the werewolves now. Many trusted sources are saying that North America might connect to Europe due to continental drift soon, so...
Read more