The Amazing Spider-Man #15 Review

Farewell………for now.

Dan Slott ties a ribbon on the Spider-Verse event with some heartfelt moments and one final act.

There is a sudden role reversal that feels a little tacked on, and some actions that feel more plot-oriented than character-driven.

Guiseppe Camuncoli works excellently on the artwork and proves an able foil to Slott’s writing.

SPOILERS FOLLOW………………

We focus on Spider-Girl first, as she returns to her universe and finds everyone sans her world’s Peter Parker alive. Ben Parker of the post-apocalyptical world decides to stay with them.

It’s also an important step for Mayday as she inherits Peter’s old costume, renaming herself Spider-Woman.

Back on Loomworld, SpOck aka Superior Spider-Man in a deranged and desperate move attempts to cut apart the Master Weaver’s strands in an effort to alter a future in which he knows he will die and Peter will get his body back, with the side-effect of dulling the Spider-Sense ability and cutting off Madame Web (who finally wakes up from her coma) from the mystical web of life.

With priorities surrounding him on all sides, Peter decides to send Miguel O’Hara and Spider-Gwen back to their own worlds while he, Anya and Jessica Drew battle SpOck.

Anya manages to get Morlun’s sacrificial knife away from SpOck, reading the inscription on it that the Master Weaver will always exist and only death will end the role. Silk considers whether she’s meant to be the one, but when the helmet is removed; everyone is shocked to see an older Karn.

Karn decides that he at some point in time decided to put on the mask of the Weaver (his weapon is also the only thing that opens the orb in which the Weaver sits), while above among the threads, Peter and SpOck duke it out.

SpOck is beaten down, starting a subroutine on his Anya helper program that puts it in sleep mode for 100 days. He is then forcibly ejected to his own time (back during the Superior Spider-Man timeline), the travel making him forget of the incidents of the Spider-Verse.

Using the totemic energies he’s siphoned from the different Spiders he’s killed, Karn attempts redemption. He first shows everyone that Morlun and co are still alive – surviving on the mutant spiders in the bunker of the post-apocalyptic world. Then he attempts to return everyone to their respective universes.

Spider-UK finds return impossible as his entire universe seems to have been wiped out due to events occurring across the Marvel multiverse. He and Anya decide to stay back and help Karn repair the multiversal threads.

Peter, Jessica and Cindy return to their own universe, with each wondering how they’ll continue regular life post-Inheritors. But a bag snatcher and a thanks from a grateful bystander makes Peter realize that evil, no matter how big or small, is something he will always oppose.

It’s a routine epilogue with some interesting moments (Karn taking up the Weaver mantle, SpOck’s Anna program, Kaine's hand coming out from the Other cocoon), but mainly it’s just tying up loose ends – which Slott does well.

There are some problems though. Each side-character leaves according to the whims of the plot and not in an organic manner. And beating us over the head with future storyline like this isn’t good (looking at you Secret Wars).

SPOILERS END………………..

Dan Slott caps off a very good Spider-Man event with a satisfying epilogue complete with great artwork and some heartfelt characterization.

There are problems with a tacky final act that feels like an after-thought though is an integral part of this event.

So, I give it 9.0 out of 10.

+Some heartfelt moments

+Great artwork

+Satisfying epilogue sets up some tantalizing future scenarios

+Wraps up most threads excellently

-Some plot-driven actions at odds with characters