Amazing Spider-Man #17 Preview

[spiderlink]

It was strange that Lowe said of a random letter that if JrJr and Wells leave he'll have suitable replacements ready?
It's out of left field to add unless there's something brewing

It’s a joke about clones lol, the only joke in all the issue that is somewhat funny

[Frontier]

Yep. Noticed that.

Also noticed that yet once again, Wells presents Peter as beaten and about to delivered a devastating blow and must be rescued by someone else - in this case the bizarro demon Spider-Man.

At least Wells is consistent about something .

It was strange that Lowe said of a random letter that if JrJr and Wells leave he'll have suitable replacements ready?
It's out of left field to add unless there's something brewing

Probably Joe Kelly or any other BND guy who can do workmanlike, toeing the company line, stories as long as Marvel needs them too.

[The Negative Zone]

I'll admit the Rek-Pap stuff is pretty cringy. I thought the first bit was funny but the whole design is just bad.

I've been meaning to bring this up but Timeless # 1 actually had a tease of a new Spider-Man that clearly wasn't human... I was curious/excited but if its this guy? Ew no..

[IamnotJudasTraveller]

I've been meaning to bring this up but Timeless # 1 actually had a tease of a new Spider-Man that clearly wasn't human... I was curious/excited but if its this guy? Ew no..

Reasonably sure that's just a Spider-Man in "Sins of Sinister", which I believe should be yet another X-Men AU event instead of something to actually impact the Spider titles.

[Kurolegacy]

I guess I'm the only one who enjoyed it here. I actually thought the inanimate object and demons were funny.

Tasty pics of Spider-Man was cringy though.

I don't think the series is as tonally inconsistent as you guys make it out to be, horror and dark comedy typically blend pretty well. The whole idea of inanimate objects becoming monsters is a ridiculous idea.

I’d say it would be more entertaining if not for the premise behind it being the character assassination of a character who even the event has seemed to stop taking seriously. As is, half the time Ben shows up to be cartoonishly evil for a second before the story goes somewhere else.

[The Negative Zone]

Reasonably sure that's just a Spider-Man in "Sins of Sinister", which I believe should be yet another X-Men AU event instead of something to actually impact the Spider titles.

Dang you're right.. he does have the nightcrawler hands and body! D'oh!

[Spidey_62]

I like Rek-Rap lol. He's seemingly literally Bizarro-Spider-Man. This issue was a lot of fun, very strange.

[Jman27]

I like Rek-Rap lol. He's seemingly literally Bizarro-Spider-Man. This issue was a lot of fun, very strange.

good point hopefully he can carry out the good fight in Limbo

[H-E-D]

Is Marvel Editorial trying to put the screws on Sony (whom I do not see caving to Marvel in any respect) and ruin Spider-Man on purpose by having Zeb Wells intentionally do a crappy job of writing an already subpar Spider-Man story based on a really bad X-Men story? I am not going to pretend that Inferno was a good story, Inferno was a bad comic.

A lot of people think Inferno is the greatest X-Men story.

[Matt Rat]

A lot of people think Inferno is the greatest X-Men story.

You spell "greatest X-Men story" like this:

D-A-R-K P-H-O-E-N-I-X

[CaptainUniverse]

You spell "greatest X-Men story" like this:

D-A-R-K P-H-O-E-N-I-X

Ahem, excuse you...it's spelled D-A-Y-S-O-F-F-U-T-U-R-E-P-A-S-T

[scarletspidey]

A lot of people think Inferno is the greatest X-Men story.

A lot of People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people Jeremy.

[Vegan]

I don’t think it’s fair to castigate Inferno just because Dark Web sucks. It’s a perfectly good story, imo

[Daibhidh]

Inferno has Claremont, after his imperial phase but before he descended into self-parody, working alongside Louise Simonson, who was one of Marvel's underrated writers, and they're being edited by Ann Nocenti. It's not the greatest X-men story ever, but not as good as Claremont in his imperial phase is not saying much. Many of the flaws in the plot come from the fact that Bob Harras had Scott Summers act like a complete jerk when he brought Jean back. I'm Scott/Jean all the way but really Inferno is forced to disregard everything Claremont did with the character of Madelyne Prior.

[Huntsman Spider]

Inferno has Claremont, after his imperial phase but before he descended into self-parody, working alongside Louise Simonson, who was one of Marvel's underrated writers, and they're being edited by Ann Nocenti. It's not the greatest X-men story ever, but not as good as Claremont in his imperial phase is not saying much. Many of the flaws in the plot come from the fact that Bob Harras had Scott Summers act like a complete jerk when he brought Jean back. I'm Scott/Jean all the way but really Inferno is forced to disregard everything Claremont did with the character of Madelyne Prior.

Pretty much, and then retroactively justifying or excusing his behavior with Madelyne and Jean by having Madelyne turn out to be a literal clone of Jean (to delegitimize and dehumanize her in the eyes of those, such as Marvel editorial, who think clones don't count as actual people) and then literally demonizing her by having her become the Goblin Queen and nearly kill her own son as a human sacrifice (and likely to spite Scott as well). Speaking of, the same mentality of "clones don't count as actual people" is what got Ben Reilly killed off at the end of the 90s Clone Saga and then revived twenty years later, only to be twisted into a villain twice within the space of five years, since Marvel editorial saw him as a redundancy at best, to tie this back to Spider-Man.