Review: Spider-Man 2099 #4

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Story By: Peter David

Artist: Will Sliney

 

            Cover Art: Alex Ross

Publisher: Marvel Comics

 

Cover Price: $3.99

Another good issue as this series starts to have me wondering just where the story is taking us, I felt that this was basically a filler story arc a kind of biding our time till Spider-Verse kicks off and we get Miguel into that action.

That's not to say i didn't like this story arc or issue, quite the opposite. There's a few nice developing sub-plots bubbling beneath the surface and as such. it does enough to still hold interest. The most interesting aspect of this issue, isn't the action. or the battle between Scorpion and Spider-Man 2099. No the most interesting aspect is the moment where Tiberious Stone appears to have a change of heart near the story's climax.

The pages that depict just how Tiberious manages to escape from his captors is quite powerful and poignant and describes how much is often sacrificed in conflicts between governments and rebels, even in the comic book world.

Will Sliney's art continues to impress me at the moment and his interpretation of the re-modeled Scorpion is really well done. and this issue gave the artist a bit of a free range to display some of his impressions of Spider-Man poses  that are in his repertoire.

The story flowed well and the fight between Spider-Man and Scorpion was fraught with tension throughout and it was Sliney's art that helped this along. The tension was held by the joint threat that Miguel faced as not only having to battle the Scorpion, but also the consignment of Spider-Slayers that had been brought by Tiberious with the intention of supplementing the country's government army as a way to keep order.

The fast thinking Miguel, reveals to us another of the uses he has for Lyla, his hologramatic watch, who provides assistance to Spider-Man. In this instance the help came in the form of projecting a Spider-Man costume onto the Scorpion, at Miguel's behest in order to confuse the Spider-Slayers into attacking Scorpion.

However the real twist in this tale came, when Stone, who had come to the country in order to sell as many Spider-Slayers to the dictator as he could. refused to sell them to him. due mainly to all that he had seen and his own experiences. leaving us to wonder if the first seeds of Miguel's,  plan to change Alchemax from the evil conglomerate organization it is in 2099, to something less sinister, had been planted.

Overall a solid issue which is worth a pick up and read.

Score 7.5

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