early prediction: The last page of the main story in 850 reveals who Kindred is.
early prediction: The last page of the main story in 850 reveals who Kindred is.
No, because most of these things don't involve Peter. He is just going to college again and doing normal Spider-Man things while other characters get new things to do like MJ's movie, Jonah's podcast, Jamie's future manipulation, Kindred's plans, et cetera while Peter just goes onto the next three issue arc that is likely more important and fresh for someone else, but not him. Other characters are getting into interesting scenarios, but Spider-Man isn't involved. The cool stuff is orbiting around him. I am assuming after #850 Kindred will do something that will actually change Peter's status quo, but after 2 years and 40+ issues, the most the main protagonist of a book should have going on shouldn't be getting a dog. When ASM relaunched with other books in 2018, Iron Man was having an existential identity crisis, Venom was the scion of a primordial deity, and Hulk was Satan by December.
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I must confess, I've become increasingly convinced they're building up to something with the marriage. Between Peter's abortive proposal, the various demonic connections Kindred has and that they were planning to put out a True Believers reprint of ASM Annual #21, it feels like it's building up to something.
Got to agree. Hulk has just #34 and he has been through way more in that than Peter has in 43 issues. Hunted was the last big thing and aside from that it’s felt like filler until the next big event which is of course Sins Rising.
I think things will pick up more in the coming issues - but the series has been flagging for some time. I’d probably put it down to poor pacing than character development...
I still don't think it's fair to compare the development/pacing of both. I don't think it's fair at all.
Yeah, but he's connected to a lot of it, like Jonah's podcast and being the center of Kindred's plan...we still don't really know how MJ's stuff is going to connect back or how the stuff with Mysterio is going to shake up, but at the rate things are going it will probably be resolved in Peter's book.
Considering how the last run had him going from super-scientist to Parker Industries, to just being back at the Bugle again, I think it's fine that Spider-Man is just, well...Spider-Man.