Amazing Spider-Man #23
Writer: Dan
Slott & Christos Gage
Art Team:
Giuseppe Camuncoli, Cam Smith, Jason Keith
Marvel
Comics
Release
Date: January 18, 2017
Price: $3.99
Break-up’s to Make-up’s?
What would you do if you were faced with the prospects of
rekindling a long lost love, with the clone, of someone you never thought you’d
ever see again? Well me personally, I would
look to comic books for advice, because this seems like the sort of thing these
characters have experience in dealing with, and me, well I’m over here and I
can’t make a right decision to save my life.
So join me and let’s find out what Spider-man, in this scenario, instructs
me to do, you know just in case this situation ever arises, shall we … it is
2017 after all, who knows what’s around the corner.
This book picks up right in the middle of the events of Clone
Conspiracy #4, so if you are reading the main event, and if you’re picking this
up, you surely are, then stop at the panel with Spider-Man and Gwen having a
conversation and read this issue in that spot. Then go back and continue with
Clone Conspiracy #4.
Still with me? Ok. So basically this issue is Peter and Gwen,
mostly all alone, having a talk that’s long overdue since her resurrection at
the hands of Jackal-Ben. It starts off
with a few lighter moments between the former couple before Gwen makes it very
clear that she has forgiven Peter for the events that lead to her death (back
in the early Spider-Man heyday) as well as never revealing his secret life as
Spider-Man to her.
As the talk progresses things get very heavy. Gwen confronts Peter about his feelings for
her after all this time, whether or not he feels she is “the real Gwen Stacey”
memories or not, all before out of nowhere Gwen lunges for and kisses our
hero. Surprisingly Peter doesn’t handle
the kiss well at all and the moment makes Gwen realize, that Peter also wears “his
mask” to protect himself from feeling, as well as others from feeling for him,
as their talk concludes and they walk back outside to “Haven”.
That’s really about all we get here, our issue concludes, as
it catches up with the third act of the tie-in story that this books has
spawned out of, Clone Conspiracy #4. So jump
over to that review if you’re looking for additional thoughts on the events
that follow. One thing I will say; the entire back and forth between the two
characters feels genuine and emotional, especially if you’re a long time Amazing
Spider-Man fan, so it’s difficult to conclude these paragraphs with suitable
punchlines, damn you Dan Slott and Christos Gage!
Overall this issue as a whole was solid and took a snippet
of time from Clone Conspiracy #4 adding some extra weight and emotion to the
event as a whole. Most tie-ins feel ancillary
to the events they take place however these issues of Amazing Spider-Man in accompany
to Clone Conspiracy have really felt needed and important, so kudos to the
writing team of Slott and Gage. The art
done by Camuncoli is the best of these Amazing Spider-Man tie-in issues so far
too, the artist did a great job of showing the emotion on each characters face
as they conversation took its turns.
Bits and Pieces
Amazing Spider-Man continues to be the best of the tie-in
issues that accompany the Spider event Clone Conspiracy. This issue spotlights a
cloned Gwen Stacey and Peter Parker who take the reader through a worthy and
enjoyable trip down memory lane. However to see this story all the way through,
and make it truly worth a purchase, an investment in the event would be
necessary.
7.8/10
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