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Saturday, February 16, 2008 

BND is still the same old

The preview news for Amazing Spider-Man #552 is really nothing I haven't heard of before:
Spider-Man’s been put through the ringer by Menace, named public enemy #1 by the DB, but now it’s time for another new villain to stick it to ol’ webhead—his name is Freak! Amazing Spider-Man #552, from Oscar-nominated writer Bob Gale (Back To The Future) and superstar artist Phil Jimenez (New X-Men), kicks off a brand new arc of the thrice monthly Spider-Man series that has everyone’s Spider Senses tingling! A petty theft from at a local soup kitchen quickly turns into something deadlier than Spidey could ever imagine—and he’s about to face the results! Meanwhile, the DB’s new Editor-In-Chief launches an all-out smear campaign against the Wall-Crawler—and it may just work! Plus, the mayoral race heats up and Harry’s caught up in it!
"Menace" is really just another Hobgoblin, and the whole idea of framing Spidey for murder sounds familiar too. And even the story of how the new EIC for the Bugle launches a smear campaign against Spidey fails to excite me.

As for Bob Gale, I can't say I've cared much for him in the past decade or so. I've practically forgotten about him over time, and don't even know now what else he wrote besides Back to the Future? But the main problem, of course, is the destruction of the Spider-Marriage. So it doesn't make much difference who's writing, since until repairs are done, I'm not coming to see this.

But if there's really some deadly business going on in the plot, then so much for a retailer's claim that Spidey was family-friendly again. So far, all signs are that Spidey is anything but that.

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