Originally Posted by
FFJamie94
I feel like if you break the best Spencer stories down to their own individual arc, you get some great moments. The podcast issue with Jonah, the two part in the bar with Boomerang, the issue where Jonah tells the Kingpin to stuff it. And there are even sparks of brilliance in individual issues, the issue where Kindred keeps killing Peter, the Hunted arc was great, the return of sin eater was fun. There are points where this comic was a great comic, but while I’m entertained and glad, I have to ask, was it worth this? Spencer didn’t really tell a story, now I don’t know if it was him or editorial, but Sinister War wasn’t a story, it was an excuse for a retcon. It was one big fight where barely anything happens and it feels rushed as Hell. In a year, People aren’t going to remember Sinister War or what happened in it exactly, but they will remember the retcons.
Now am I glad Sins Past is retconned, sure. But was it worth building up 3 years to retcon it? Not really.
It’s a run that doesn’t stand alone, and unless you’ve been reading Spider-man for 30 years (I’m not even 30, but I have been reading since Sins Past so I do get a lot of what happened) then you’ll be lost. If you came into Spider-man through superior or Spider-verse, the this run won’t mean much to you.
For that, the run is a dud. But unlike other duds, I’m not angry, disappointed and I don’t even hate what’s going on. I’m entertained by each issue and it has left me guessing. The run as a whole is a 5\10. I don’t know how often I’ll go back to it. But if it means we get something great post beyond then at least we got something.
Personally, Beyond sounds like it can really just clean things out for a while. It’s fixing the window that Spencer broke while he cleaned up the Spider house.