So, Amazing Spider-Man #700 has leaked. It's easy to find if you know where to look.
I'll preface this by saying that it is entirely possible that this is a ruse by Marvel. They've put out fake pages before, so it's not outside the realm of possibility. So until you see the issue and not a (poor) scan by an unknown source, take everything you hear about it with a grain of salt. I don't know if Marvel has ever shipped a book out a week early and told retailers not to sell it until the following week, but apparently that's what they did here. And they are fools if they really think no one was going to break street date. It is also possible that this is exactly what they are hoping for, to build hype for the issue. They've spoiled big books before with newspaper interviews, so who knows.
That said, the reports and scans from last week are true. Peter, in Doc Ock's body, uses the golden octopus thing to "beam" (!!!) memories into Spider-Man's titanium-re-enforced head because it couldn't inject them (!!!!), and hits him with Peter's "human" memories. Ock sees all of Peter's memories like various people dying as Otto experiencing them. He also delivers the killing blow to what is left of Ock's body - Peter in Ock's body is dead. Complete organ shutdown, body beaten to a pulp - dead.
The build up was just as bad. Peter had a near-death experience and saw all of the dead friends and relatives in an "afterlife", in which Uncle Ben convinces him that he can't leave yet, not with Otto ruining Peter's reputation. That gives him the strength to carry on and fight back.
There's a lot more - I think it is a 48 page issue, and with backup stories (which haven't read yet) this is supposed to be 100 pages, I believe. But that is the gist of the main story.
Dan Slott has been awful on this book for a long time. I liked it at first, then it because tolerable, but it has been complete garbage since at least Spider Island, which itself was poorly executed, idiotic idea. But this....this is the worst thing Marvel has ever published. I'm not even talking from an ideological standpoint, like, "what have they done to my Spider-Man!" This is an amateur idea which is so poorly done that it...gah. I can't even hyperbole enough to do it justice. Of course it will be retconned and of course it will be reversible. That's not what I'm talking about. This is just a bad book that should never have been proposed, much less created, much less published, regardless of the ease in which they can reverse it.
If I could even wrap my head around how bad this is, it might be the closest I've ever come to burning all of my comics and shutting down this site. But I can't even process it enough to form any kind of reaction other than to write a message board post about it.
So there you go.
I'll preface this by saying that it is entirely possible that this is a ruse by Marvel. They've put out fake pages before, so it's not outside the realm of possibility. So until you see the issue and not a (poor) scan by an unknown source, take everything you hear about it with a grain of salt. I don't know if Marvel has ever shipped a book out a week early and told retailers not to sell it until the following week, but apparently that's what they did here. And they are fools if they really think no one was going to break street date. It is also possible that this is exactly what they are hoping for, to build hype for the issue. They've spoiled big books before with newspaper interviews, so who knows.
That said, the reports and scans from last week are true. Peter, in Doc Ock's body, uses the golden octopus thing to "beam" (!!!) memories into Spider-Man's titanium-re-enforced head because it couldn't inject them (!!!!), and hits him with Peter's "human" memories. Ock sees all of Peter's memories like various people dying as Otto experiencing them. He also delivers the killing blow to what is left of Ock's body - Peter in Ock's body is dead. Complete organ shutdown, body beaten to a pulp - dead.
The build up was just as bad. Peter had a near-death experience and saw all of the dead friends and relatives in an "afterlife", in which Uncle Ben convinces him that he can't leave yet, not with Otto ruining Peter's reputation. That gives him the strength to carry on and fight back.
There's a lot more - I think it is a 48 page issue, and with backup stories (which haven't read yet) this is supposed to be 100 pages, I believe. But that is the gist of the main story.
Dan Slott has been awful on this book for a long time. I liked it at first, then it because tolerable, but it has been complete garbage since at least Spider Island, which itself was poorly executed, idiotic idea. But this....this is the worst thing Marvel has ever published. I'm not even talking from an ideological standpoint, like, "what have they done to my Spider-Man!" This is an amateur idea which is so poorly done that it...gah. I can't even hyperbole enough to do it justice. Of course it will be retconned and of course it will be reversible. That's not what I'm talking about. This is just a bad book that should never have been proposed, much less created, much less published, regardless of the ease in which they can reverse it.
If I could even wrap my head around how bad this is, it might be the closest I've ever come to burning all of my comics and shutting down this site. But I can't even process it enough to form any kind of reaction other than to write a message board post about it.
So there you go.
