This book is both awesome and frustrating at the same time.



The amazing spiderman issues (about 20 issues) written by michelinie are the highlight of the book. And for that alone, this book is worth buying. It follows directly after the michelinie/mcfarlane omnibus. I love the michelinie's run on spidey. These issues have venom, the sinister six, scorpion, even doctor doom. Plus a ton more. I really loved the black cats arc. Well written, larsen really was on his A game during this run.



Now the frustrating part. After the amazing spiderman issues, it skips ahead to issues that were written and drawn by larsen alone. Michelinie had no part with theses issues. And damn. It shows. The story is no longer nearly as great. Even the art kinda takes a major shift to the negative. In my honest opinion. Also, you get any issue that had larsen drawing spidey. So you get, for example, chaper 5 of a 6 part story. But only that chaper. So you really have no idea what going on. Stuff like that happened several times. Its rather jarring



All in all, i consider this as an unofficial "volume 2" of michelinie"s amazing spiderman run. Vol 1 would be the mcfarlene/ michilenie omnibus. I hope they will release the rest of it in another omnibus when bagley took over as artist.



If you are a fan of michilenie? Buy this book. Its worth it. Even with the filler issues that michilenie had no part with. Dont get me wrong. They are decent. Just not as great as the amazing spiderman issues.