Amazing Spider-Man #570After almost a year of hit and miss stories, ASM actually pumps out a somewhat decent story with the newest "New Ways to Die" arc. This is no doubt due to the excellent writing of Dan Slott and the always stellar work of John Romita Jr.
The story follows the epic fight between the two Venoms, as Spidey attempts to find a way to take care of both of them, all the while trying to save Aunt May at the homeless shelter.
Issue #570 is the third chapter in the arc and a blending together of various story elements. Aside from the Venom/Anti-Venom conflict, Dan Slott revisits the old character Menace who any real comic fan thinks is really dumb and a complete goblin rip-off.
Hopefully, as the last panel of this issue indicates, we'll see some sort of explanation as to why Menace looks a lot like a Goblin.
We also see Aunt May begin to suspect the dark motives of the apparent villain Mr. Li aka Mr. Negative, as he reveals to have a panic room inside, of all places, a homeless shelter.
Hopefully, we'll begin to see a fleshing-out of these villains, as the beginning of "Brand New Day" brought these baddies to light and since then they've done literally nothing with them. These characters have some interesting traits but lack much of what is necessary to create cool, mainstream villains.
I want to like ASM, but this method of writing Spidey is proving not to be the right way after nearly a year of production. This latest arc is the right step in where Marvel needs to take ASM though.
3/5 stars
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