Of course, as soon as Jeff thinks about coming on, I think about jumping ship.
Just same thing as always, Dan Slott amazes me and then a few issues later writes an issue that just leaves me scratching my head. Nothing really wrong with the issue that deserves my "jumping ship" declaration, it just didn't hit, wasn't worth the price for me and that has me bummed. Not knocking Slott as much as this will sound, but the book seemed almost juvenile. I mean, again, not slamming him, but I felt like I was reading a comic from 1974 ... and not in the good classic feel way.
Everything was almost like Slott was holding our hands through the issue. "Here, come this way". Now I don't mind when writers lead us, but when the feeling is they are talking down to us, leading us because we are not to be trusted to follow beside him instead of behind him, that is where I have the problem. NOT that that is what Slott tried, but it is just what I felt when reading the issue. It really feel that all the people that gave him shit over his Superior SpiderMan really got into his head and he is trying to slow it down a tad for the people that struggle with reading a freaking Spider-Man comic.
Plus, like always, the inclusion of Marvel's damn Event of the month into a story that doesn't need it just drives the story away from the path it should travel. Maybe that is why Slott felt like he had to watch out for us?
Anyway, it wasn't a terrible issue, but still felt like I needed a little more discount from DCBS to make this worth the price. Still, just an average comic I suppose.
5 outta 10 - over explanations of characters skill levels, arriving too soon and too fast