Story By: Peter David
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| Released 7/1/15 |
Artist: Will Sliney
Cover Art: Francesco Mattina
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Well now, here we are. the first of the Spider-Verse releases of the year 2015. and wasn't it a great read? sorry......what? you mean you haven't read it? well here I am to indicate to you why you should. you lucky people you.
Well firstly a quick recap for those that perhaps can't recall what happened at the end of the lat issue. The current story so far is that Miguel, Lady Spider and Six armed Spider-Man were on the run from Daemos, who had seemingly returned from the dead and was chasing the three spider's across the skyline of Nueve York (New York of the year 2099, to you and me) As they were rushing to Alchemax to dissect the body of the deceased copy of Daemos. it was during this chase that six armed Spider-Man met his death at the hands of the inheritor allowing time for Miguel to lay a trap to contain Daemos. The trap was sprung and Spider-Man 2099 and Lady Spider had managed to capture their would be hunter.
Ok well so are you all up to speed? if not then read the review of Spider-Man 2099 #6 here or better yet re-read or go and buy the issue you won't be disappointed.
For those of you who are now up to speed I shall continue with the review of this months issue,
The Story picks up Immediately where it left off, and Lady Spider and Miguel interrogate Daemos who promises them that he will get free of the confinement they have placed him in, Miguel informs Daemos the only way he'll be getting out of the "cell" is in a bodybag. the pair of spiders then go to see the head of Alchemax, Tyler Stone.
Miguel demands that Tyler allows them to use one of the labs to dissect the corpse of Daemos to which Tyler reluctantly agrees after being threatened by Spider-Man.
Once in the lab Spider-Man and Lady Spider monitor the feed to the Lab holding Daemos in his cell, The inheritor can sense that he is being monitored and proceeds to offer the two spiders a deal to let him go. In the meantime the spiders are unaware that they are also being monitored by Tyler Stone.
Whilst Miguel is conducting the autopsy of the deceased copy of Daemos' body he instructs Lady Spider to get the dimension jump device working again, he then leaves her to discuss elements of his findings with another scientist. It's at this point that Daemos executes his escape plan.
Alerted by Lady Spider, Miguel returns to the lab in time to see the method of escape by Daemos, and then decides it's time the spiders made good their exit. and the chase begins anew. Though Miguel has a plan of his own to slow the inheritor down. which i won't spoil the details of here. Suffice to say it involves the return of another of the 2099 characters. who helps hinder Daemos enough to allow the Spiders to escape back to the "Safe Zone" where they find the aftermath of the events of Amazing Spider-Man issue's #11 and #12.
I found the pace of this issue quite fast as it has been since Miguel returned to the year 2099, and it flow's well the intensity of the situation that the characters find themselves in has once again been expertly handed by Peter David and as the the story moves on I do find myself becoming more and more enthused for the kind of tales we're going to be seeing once this event is completed. It's clear that Mr David is holding something back in his writing and once he is let loose with his own stories I can see that we're going to be kept enthralled by what comes next for Miguel.
The art by WIll Sliney, continues to get stronger and though there are a number of detractors i'm not among them.
All in all this was a good issue, although slightly disappointing that nothing really seems to happen, other than discovering that when cornered the Inheritors will revert to their fail safe method. Which if you want to know what that is then you'll have to buy the issue. That is however the drawbacks of being a tie-in to another writer's story. you have to write to their guidelines and direct your characters in the direction that they want them to go in. However that doesn't really detract from the current story and as I've stated Peter David's writing carries it off well.
I enjoyed this issue and look forward to Spider-Man 2099 #8 which is out at the tail end of this month.
Overall i'm going to score
this issue a 7.5 it's a good issue it moves the story along it would've been a 7.0 but gets added points for the "surprise" cameo.
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