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Writer: Dan Slott
Artist: Ryan Stegman & Livesay
Colorist: Edgar Delgado
Pubisher: Marvel Comics
Price: $3.99
The rip in the time continuum, due to the events in the Age of Ultron, is causing a plethora of damage all across the time stream.
The appearance of Spider-Man 2099 in the regular Marvel universe has been rumored for months and it has finally come to pass. Fans have been dying for a battle between the two web crawlers for years.
The timing of this is brilliant because Miguel O’Hara would have been the pseudo bad guy, but now Peter Parker is out and Otto Octavius is in.
This situation makes it impossible for Miguel O’Hara to be the bad guy, and makes the reader want to see Spider-Man go down.
An interesting revelation takes place during the book’s time in 2099.
O’Hara, not understanding why 2013 is so important, and the realization that he will have to come face-to-face with the original Spider-Man, realizes this means that the whole Peter/Otto mind swap is not a publicly known fact in 2099. The humor that Dan Slott injects into this series is often under-rated, but it works on so many levels because it’s not done for the sake of being laugh out loud funny, but done with the purpose of enhancing a character and the story. Otto’s spider sense is going off ad nauseum and bringing him to the point where he says “What a completely useless super power! Be more specific, damn it!”
It is funny and absurd at the same time because the particular power is a hallmark in the Spider-Man mythology, but it figures that someone like the good doctor could never appreciate it. While the Spider-Men don’t lock horns in this issue, next month’s showdown is brilliantly set up in a manner where you care about every facet of the story being told.
Grade: A
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