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uosdwisrdewoh's review
2.0
My nostalgia and curiosity get the better of me, part 2.
Almost all of what I said about volume 1 is still valid here, except the novelty of the story line is starting to wear thin--and this is volume 2 of eleven fat volumes collecting the whole thing.
The first problem with this volume is that "Complete" in the title: lumped into this book are 110 pages of superfluous, money-grab comics, like a three-part miniseries commemorating a villain's death that the writer later featured in a blog post entitled "Bad Comics I Wrote."
Aside from that, the main storyline itself starts out with fun twists and melodrama as Spider-Man is on the brink of death, finally pulling himself back with the help of his arch-nemesis Doctor Octopus. But then Doc Ock gets his neck snapped by the supposedly cool, new, mystery man Kaine, who then spends the rest of the book standing around and scheming to himself, and the plot gets even more unbearable from there as they pile fakeouts on top of fakeouts in terms of who the real clone is, an issue that would not be resolved for years.
Again, while this features some talented creators like J. M. DeMatteis and Bill Sienkiewicz, this volume is only for the morbidly curious comics fan with a really good library system, like me.
Almost all of what I said about volume 1 is still valid here, except the novelty of the story line is starting to wear thin--and this is volume 2 of eleven fat volumes collecting the whole thing.
The first problem with this volume is that "Complete" in the title: lumped into this book are 110 pages of superfluous, money-grab comics, like a three-part miniseries commemorating a villain's death that the writer later featured in a blog post entitled "Bad Comics I Wrote."
Aside from that, the main storyline itself starts out with fun twists and melodrama as Spider-Man is on the brink of death, finally pulling himself back with the help of his arch-nemesis Doctor Octopus. But then Doc Ock gets his neck snapped by the supposedly cool, new, mystery man Kaine, who then spends the rest of the book standing around and scheming to himself, and the plot gets even more unbearable from there as they pile fakeouts on top of fakeouts in terms of who the real clone is, an issue that would not be resolved for years.
Again, while this features some talented creators like J. M. DeMatteis and Bill Sienkiewicz, this volume is only for the morbidly curious comics fan with a really good library system, like me.
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