written by Zeb Wells
penciled by Ed McGuinness
inked by Cliff Rathburn
colored by Marcio Menyz
The massive Spider-Man/X-Men crossover Dark Web has finally launched in Dark Web #1, which I have no real interest in picking up, but I wasn't about to miss the return of Ed McGuiness to the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man following the eighty glorious pages he contributed to the landmark 900th issue.
Basically Chasm aka Ben Reilly aka Peter Parker's clone and his new BFF the Goblin Queen aka Madeline Pryor aka Jean Grey's clone have unleashed Hell on New York City, as a result of which Spider-Man aka Peter Parker has been running around the city trying to put out fires both literal and metaphorical. Unfortunately, he runs afoul of an old frenemy who's turned particularly nasty as a result of the supernatural craziness: Venom.
This was a pleasant enough issue because it managed to tell a complete story while advancing the story of the larger arc, but I'm still not hyped enough for the "bigger" tale to start picking up the non-Spider-Man issues of this crossover. In that, I guess one could say this issue is a failure but really the entire idea isn't particularly appealing to me. In the end it'll just add another volume to the already epic-length "Clone Saga" which is starting to become Marvel's version of the Mahabharata.
I was, of course, overjoyed to see Ed McGuinness back on art duties, and he did not disappoint in the slightest. I'm really happy to note that he'll be on art duties for the next three issues!
8.5/10
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