AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #597

Writer: Joe Kelly
Penciler: Marco Chechetto
Inker: Marco Chechetto
Story Title: “American Son Part 3”

Plot

A tour of Avengers tower. Peter in disguise. Harry and Lily meet. “Wolverine” vs. “Venom”. Harry chooses sides.

The Commentary

Before I get into the commentary this time out I wanted to mention that there were two ads in this issue that made me smile. The first had the Hulk and Thing playing the new Punch-Out game for the Wii. It may have been a tad silly but I chuckled a bit. The other was the retro ad that Marvel put in as part of their 70th Anniversary celebration. It was a 1984 advert for Power Man and Iron Fist where Iron Fist informed the reader that they should buy the book or risk making Power Man mad. I remember this ad vividly from when I was a kid and it was neat to see it in a “modern” comic.

See, you don’t get this sort of thing when you wait for the trade.

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Tonight you get to see the premiere of Spectacular Spider-Man on Disney XD. Finally, we get the show in the states. Set your VCR’s DVR’s and Tivos! The First two episodes are coming at you BACK TO BACK! It starts at 7:00pm EST / 4:00pm PST with "Blueprints" and Destructive Testing
EXCELSIOR!
Spideydude

In this episode we announce the addition of Michael Bailey as our newest member of the panel.
The show has the gang reviewing Amazing Spider-Man # 593-595. We also discuss the possible return on the Clone Saga. We then take a trip back in time to June 2001 for "This Month in Spider-History." We also talk about the possible increase in comic costs.

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During the show I talk about Paul Spataro. He is a loyal Crawl Spacer and is raising money for a cancer walk in honor of his brother. If you would like to contribute to his amazing cause, click here.

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Filmaker John Cramer sent me this e-mail of a video he did about "What if Spidey had an iPhone?" 

Funny stuff!

When it Reigns, it pours.

DARK REIGN: MR. NEGATIVE #1

WRITER: Fred Van Lente

ARTIST: Gianluca Gugliotta

INKS: Lanning & Justice

LETTERS: Dave Lanphear

PLOT:

White Dragon confronts Mr. Negative on behalf of The Hood, but then gets negativised (controlled by Mr. Negative) and sent to battle Z-List villains. The Hood takes care of it and declares war on the villainous Negative.

Betty Brant tries some journalism and visits Martin Li’s wife, before an explosion cuts power. Our group of Z-Listers (Remember The Squid?) are attacking Chinatown and run into Hammerhead (sounding like somebody from (more…)

Today marks my fourth anniversary with Mrs. Crawlspace. We have a lot of new folks on the site since I proposed back in 2005 and I thought it’d be fun to share my proposal story. It is Spidey related. I have a friend at the local movie theater and he allowed me to post a slide in the movie projector as it shuffled ads for cars, popcorn etc. Here’s what the slide looked like. I also had a grooms cake at our wedding, and you guessed it, it was a Spidey cake.

Bono and the Edge had a nice talk about why they love comics and Spider-Man.

Here’s the 55th edition of Spider-Captions. Add a funny caption to the picture in the comment section.

Good One Spidey

So what will you be buying in September? I’ve posted the Spider-books coming out in September 2009. I’ve also started a new feature where I give my two cents.

ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #2

Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Pencils & Cover by DAVID LAFUENTE
All the shocking revelations from the first issue come to bloom in this pulse-pounding second chapter!! Who is the Shroud!!?? Who is Spider-Man?? And who the hell is Mysterio and what did he go and do to the Kingpin?!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

BD Commentary: I’m digging this cover. Very trippy and kinda looks like Mysterios fishbowl head. 

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #604 & 605 
Classified until 6/22/09 (more…)

From “Peter Parker, Spectacular Spider-Man issue 24″. Ironically, even with the sliding timescale it works. We could just assume Harry and Flash were being jerks by dressing Pete in an outfit thirty years out of style.

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN PRESENTS: ANTI-VENOM—
NEW WAYS TO LIVE #1 (of 3)
Written by ZEB WELLS
Penciled by PAULO SIQUEIRA
Cover by MIRCO PIERFEDERICI
What’s Black, White and Dead all over?!?! From the pages of last year’s best-selling NEW WAYS TO DIE, Zeb Wells (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN; NEW MUTANTS) and Paulo Siqueira (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, MS. MARVEL) bring you the story of Eddie Brock, the sallow symbiote known as Anti-Venom! With his life saved by Spider-Man, Eddie is cautiously walking the line between the darkness and light while trying to find his place in a world marked only by gray. The absolute last person he needs to run into is the Punisher. Unfortunately, the Punisher remembers Eddie as a cold-blooded killer, and that is just gonna hurt.
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Tom Defalco has just confirmed on the Spider-Girl message boards that the Clone Saga mini-series is real.