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Review: Amazing Spider-Man #687 – As the World Burns

Amazing Spider-Man #687 Writer: Dan Slott Art: Stefano Caselli, Frank Martin Jr. [Color Art] HEY! WAIT A MINUTE! If you haven’t read the rest of this story arc, this review will spoil a few plot developments, and we wouldn’t want that, would we? The end of this issue isn’t spoiled, though, so you’re safe there.
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Review: Amazing Spider-Man #686 – Something You Expected, and Something You Didn’t

Amazing Spider-Man #686 Writer: Dan Slott Art: Stefano Caselli, Frank Martin Jr. [Color Art] [SIMPERIN' SPOILER ALERT: Reading this rollicking review might spoil certain exciting elements of this book's pulse-pounding plot for you, oh consummate Comic Vault reader! You've been warned!] An entire hemisphere of Earth, including Silver Sable’s native Symkaria, has been destroyed at
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Review: Amazing Spider-Man #685 – Versus the World

Amazing Spider-Man #685 Writer: Dan Slott Art: Humberto Ramos, Victor Olazaba [Inks], Edgar Delgado [Colors] With the promise of a permanent solution to global warming, Doctor Octopus has swayed the world and its peace-keeping forces against Spider-Man, who knows better than to trust Octavius’ word. Meanwhile, Spidey, Silver Sable, and Black Widow are making runs
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Review: Amazing Spider-Man #684 – Saharan Sandman!

Amazing Spider-Man #684 Writer: Dan Slott Art: Humberto Ramos, Victor Olazaba [Inks], Edgar Delgado [Colors] Certain that he had thought of everything possible while preparing to fight the latest incarnation of the Sinister Six (Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Electro, Mysterio, Rhino, and Chameleon), there was one thing Spider-Man didn’t account for–Doc Ock doing the same thing
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Review: Amazing Spider-Man #683 – Spider-Man punches Al Gore!

Amazing Spider-Man #683 Writer: Dan Slott Art: Stefano Caselli, Frank Martin Jr. [Colors] [SPOILER ALERT: Reading this review might spoil certain plot points for you, oh noble Chicago Comic Vault reader.] Close to death, Doctor Octopus has–with the help of the latest incarnation of the Sinister Six–set his final master plan in motion, developing technology
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Review: Amazing Spider-Man #682 – ‘Ends of the Earth’ Begins!

Amazing Spider-Man #682 Writer: Dan Slott Art: Stefano Caselli, Frank Martin Jr. [Colors] On the verge of death, Dr. Otto Octavius has initiated his final diabolical plan. Using a towering structure that rises from his base beneath the sea (Where do these guys get the funding and materials for these things?), he has positioned an
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Review: Amazing Spider-Man #681 – Landing a space station looked easier on TV

Amazing Spider-Man #681 Writers: Dan Slott & Chris Yost Art: Giuseppe Camuncoli [Pencils], Klaus Janson [Inks], and Frank D’Armata [Colors] Orbiting Earth in the Horizon Labs Apogee I space station, Spider-Man and the Human Torch have big problems. The space station has been compromised by Octobots, which have turned its crew–with the exception of Col.
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Review: Amazing Spider-Man #680 – In space, no one can hear you thwip!

Amazing Spider-Man #680 Writers: Dan Slott & Chris Yost Art: Giuseppe Camuncoli [Pencils], Klaus Janson [Inks], and Frank D’Armata [Color] Mayor J. Jonah Jameson’s son, Col. John Jameson, is performing repairs outside of the Horizon Labs space station Apogee 1 when suddenly he loses communication with the Horizon Labs science team on Earth–as well as
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