Friday, June 7, 2013

Avenging Spider-Man #21 (HERE BE SPOILERS!)

First, I have to mention the cover.  WTF?  Spidey appears standing on a rooftop, but he's also somewhat randomly holding a Web-Line dangling from nowhere above him in particular.  Moreover, the Chameleon appears as a Godzilla-esque threat behind him.  Given the fact that the entire issue occurs on the Helicarrier, I have no idea where Rivera was going with this image.

Turning to the issue at hand, Yost wraps up this arc pretty well, with Otto scrambling to respond to the unexpected variables (the Hulk, the Saints, etc.) that threw off his plan to kidnap the Chameleon.  (Apparently, we really are blaming it all on the Parker luck.)  Yost doesn't really pull any punches here, showing a more brutal than normal Chameleon (given that he's wearing the face that he cut off a S.H.I.E.L.D. psychologist) and an equally brutal Spidey.  We still don't learn why Otto is collecting members of the Sinister Six, but it's fun to watch Otto forced to improvise on the way to successfully sneaking the Chameleon off the Helicarrier.

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