Doc Ock wants to mess up Norman Osborn’s good streak - but Normy don’t wanna be baaad! Spider-Man gets astoopid agin for anuvver book!
Be careful what you wish for I guess - I griped that there wasn’t enough Zebby in the last volume and, even though he writes pretty much the whole of Volume 7: Armed and Dangerous, this was definitely the crappiest book in the series so far.
The main story is so boring and pointless. Otto’s arms get an upgrade (hence the subtitle) which I thought was ok - the new arms look more versatile with more personality. Otto, Norman and Spidey fight yet again and things play out as they always do. Yawners.
Then we get an extra-long, extra-snorey issue where we get to see Some Guy marry Tombstone’s daughter, because that was the most compelling aspect of the Spidey/Tombstone storyline from the first book: two nobodies getting hitched. Boooooo!
This part of the volume is extra-long because of all the teaser trailers for upcoming Marvel titles you won’t be buying padding it out. Easily the funniest is finding out Kamala Khan’s back! So she didn’t even stay “dead” for one book. Oh superhero comics, you are so tediously predictable, you’ve become a parody of yourselves.
Marvel’s out of ideas so they’re bringing back Superior Spider-Man and Kaare Andrews’ Dark Knight Returns knock-off Spider-Man: Reign is getting a sequel. They also don’t know what to do with MJ anymore so she’s suddenly got “jackpot powers” so she can apparently fly and fruit machine symbols follow her around?! What a mess.
I feel like the absurd publishing schedule for this title is, also predictably, causing a quality drop in Zeb Wells’ writing because seven volumes in and Amazing Spider-Man is back to being as dull as it was pre-Zeb. Hopefully it gets better but my expectations for this series continue to drop lower and lower by the volume - Armed and Dangerous is easily the least inspired entry in Wells’ run so far.
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