Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Vol.3 by Brian Michael Bendis
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This has some good shit in it, but also has some shitty shit because it crosses over with some big stupid event that I don’t give a fuck about.
I’m gonna sum up what I see in most crossovers.
1. Books that are going well take a dip in quality because they have their shit together and have to detour into some other nonsense.
2. Books that are doing horribly do not get any better because when books are doing badly, it’s usually a lack of storyline AND the page-to-page, panel-to-panel work. A crossover gives a lousy title a story, but it doesn’t fix the execution going on in the individual book.
3. The Main book, the one that is mostly about the crossover, is usually passable, but couldn’t that just be its own book? Couldn’t they just write House of M or Civil War or Maximum Carnage or Howard The Duck/Squirrel Girl Slash Fiction (how many letters does a guy gotta send) as its own thing and the other stories could continue as normal? Just introduce a new title called [Marvel Crossover TBD] and then we’ll all just read those as their own thing?