Ultimately, I enjoyed the characterizations of Peter, Quentin, Felicia, and May even if they seem to be more modern versions of the characters than what I think we’d have seen in ’84. Being able to explore a more nuanced view of these characters than what was being presented in those days will be interesting. It was a fast read, and honestly, it was a little hollow. Which I think is my issue with Symbiote Spider-Man as a whole. Rather than really exploring the era or Peter's relationship with the costume, this all feels really surface level, with a few references to the continuity but nothing really to say about it. Se supone que ésta serie transcurre entre los sucesos del evento "Traje alienígena" de Spiderman, que es lo que continuó para el personaje una vez que regresó del Battleworld en Secret Wars. Quise releer el primer tomo de esta saga y encontré a un precio de remate este tomo y pensé que si ya estaba leyendo esta saga pues debería de continuar. Normally this wouldn’t bother me a whole lot because I’m here for a Symbiote Spider-Man story, not so much an event tie-in, but this story was just flat-out dumb. Very out of character for the previous instalments from this creative team.

Symbiote Spider-Man: Alien Reality can't reach the heights of the first Symbiote series, but it's still perfectly serviceable and plenty of fun. Peter David and Greg Land return for the next thrilling installment woven between the classic issues of the Alien Costume Saga!The two of them are transported to the Valley of the Flame. Enter Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur (and does Devil Dinosaur look fearsome? Hell yes.). Banner, now in possession of the Norn stone, is captured by a tribe Moon Boy calls the Killer Folk who plan to sacrifice him to Long Legs, a giant spider. Enter the Guilt Hulk, another Banner persona, who lays waste to Long Legs. Witnessed Signatures: C.B. Cebulski on 7/29/2022, Jay Liesten on 8/26/2022 and Mike Del Mundo on 10/8/2022. The sky opens and energy tendrils ensnare Spidey and Hulk, transporting them to Lemuria, the realm of the Deviants and Warlord Kro. Kro gives them a tour and a history of the stone in Hulk’s possession and how its origin rests with the immortal space gods, the Celestials. Enter a mess of Eternals and the return of Karnilla who steals the stone and departs. Spidey, Hulk, and the Eternal Icarus give chase. Just when Karnilla seems triumphant, here comes Zuras, Leader of the Eternals and one last guest star, All-Father Odin, who puts Karnilla in her place and crushes the stone.

No aporta realmente nada. Construye sobre los conflictos de Spidey con la gata negra, el traje y la tía May para darnos una historia que busca resolver algunos de esos conflictos pero no los resuelve porque deberían de resolverse en la historia principal, así que al final del tomo sientes que no se avanzó nada y que el personaje sigue en el mismo sitio en el que estaba al principio, y tiene sentido porque ese personaje protagoniza el tomo dos todavía. Symbiote Spider-Man’s not bad. It’s a run of the mill Spidey mini-series that kind of only exists so that Marvel could put out a story featuring Spidey and Mysterio while the Spider-Man: Far From Home hype train was in full swing. But Mysterio’s also in the main Amazing Spider-Man book, which is much better than this, so again I ask…why did this exist?

The next portal takes them to the ships of the Eternals and the Deviants. Everyone wants this stone! alongside artist ROGÊ ANTÔNIO (CARNAGE). THIS TIME, set your time circuits ahead to the techno-dystopian future of 2099! Miguel O'Hara, A.K.A. Es interesante ver a Mysterio porque no es un villano que usen mucho, pero al final es sólo un recurso, lo venden como alguien patético y cuando buscan que te lo tomes en serio, es demasiado tarde.

This time, they are in a prehistoric time/dimension that closely resembles early Planet of the Apes, including Devil Dinosaur and the ape-like Moon Boy. When the locals try to sacrifice Bruce to a giant spider, he connects with the stone and becomes something that looks close to an alien xenomorph, calling himself Brian. SPIDER-MAN 2099, is facing a hostile takeover – of his own body! Kron Stone, the VENOM of 2099, wages an all-out assault on Alchemax, and the Peter David has told reliable Mysterio stories for years, and thanks to Slott's run on Spider-Man, Misty has been made a viable supervillain again. (I haven't caught up with Spencer's run, but his plans for the character look interesting, based on his first issue.) Symbiote Spider-Man so far has been a little underwhelming to me, but this story was kind of fun as a "banging your action figures together" kind of thing. Peter David assembles a motley crew to fight together and quip at each other, like, a lot. Will Aunt May recognize Felicia as the young woman who “accidentally” climbed in through the boarding house window looking for a costume party only a few days before in PPSSM 91? To be honest, I can’t figure out the canonical state of Aunt May’s awareness of Peter’s secret at this point given the number of retcons that have happened over the decades, but it would be interesting to see May and Felicia get to know each other over the course of the next few issues and see how that affects their opinions of each other. (I’m particularly interested in this given how vehemently Felicia seemed to avoid the Peter side of Spidey’s life at the time and how she immediately dismissed Aunt May as a “drag” and a “fogey” at that meeting. Of course, she also called May “feisty” in the same thought balloon, so there’s some real potential for discovery and conflict between the two of them!)

Customer reviews

PETER DAVID AND GREG LAND DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN! After three sense-shattering series, Peter David, Greg Land, Jay Leisten and Frank D’Armata – the entire SYMBIOTE SPIDER-MAN crew – RETURN! This time, they’re taking Spider-Man down the road less traveled to the supremely psychedelic CROSSROADS DIMENSION! In their most ambitious series yet, the SYMBIOTE team puts Peter Parker and his alien costume on a collision course with none other than THE INCREDIBLE HULK, in a story set just before Peter David’s landmark run on the Hulk series! only hope of stopping him lies with the power awakened by a top-secret project gone terribly wrong. What must Miguel sacrifice to seal the bond I also agree, PAD, that the art in this book is pretty darned good. I haven’t always loved Mr. Land’s work in the past, but it worked well for me here.