written by Zeb Wells
penciled by John Romita, Jr., Emilio Laiso and Ze Carlos
inked by Scott Hanna, Emilio Laiso and Ze Carlos
(additional stories written and drawn by various)
Yet again, Marvel comes up with an excuse to stuff a bunch of previews for upcoming books into a so-called "landmark" issue and jack up the price. Given that this issue is the 925th issue of The Amazing Spider-Man (following Marvel's so-called "legacy" number) apparently the occasion is worth marking with extra pages of story, even more pages of filler stories and plugs for upcoming books...and a hefty price tag.
The main story is Randy Robertson's wedding to Janice Lincoln. Given that this issue is over a month old by now I'm sure most people know how it went, but I won't spoil anything anyway. It's quite an auspicious event, given that Randy's and Janice's dads Robbie Robertson and Lonnie Lincoln, aka Tombstone, were once mortal enemies, and given that Tombstone is still a crime lord. As one would expect, crazy things happen and Peter Parker aka Spider-Man, as Randy's best man, has to don the webs once more.
Apart from this main story there are a whole bunch of other stories which, if I'm perfectly honest, I don't consider worth discussing considering that they are all basically advertisements for a whole bunch of books I have no intention of buying. All they effectively did was jack up the price of this issue to rather exorbitant heights.
As much as Zeb Wells' writing has turned me off of late, I thought this story was quite decent; I have genuinely enjoyed how he has handled Tombstone since reestablishing him as a major force upon the book's relaunch in 2022, and with the idiotic death of Ms. Marvel gimmick out of the way perhaps this new "mega arc" he's cooking up can tell a much more compelling story. It doesn't hurt that John Romita, Jr.'s in fine form for this extra-sized issue as are his co-artists Emilio Laiso and Ze Carlos.
Main story: 8/10
Issue as a whole: 4/10
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