Review: Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #299
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Peter Parker: The Spectactular Spider-Man #299 brings us part three of “Most Wanted.”
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Writer: Chip Zdarsky
Artists: Adam Kubert and Juan Frigeri
Color Artist: Jason Keith
Letterer: VC’s Travis Lanham
A few issues ago, Marvel returned to their legacy numbering. With issue 299, Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man tackles part three of “Most Wanted.” Spider-Man and Black Panther fight, Hawkeye makes an appearance and the bad guys keep coming. The issue uses a wide variety of character well and packs in quite a bit of action.
The Tinkerer knows the weaknesses of every superhero and villain around. He’s able to easily harm Vision and the other heroes are helpless against him. There’s also a nice twist at the end of the issue that the story has been building up to, but wasn’t totally obvious from the start.
Chip Zdarsky’s writing is solid in this issue. He has a great understanding of Peter’s character and sense of humor. It’s a bit surprising that it took him so long to work on this character. Back in February 2017, he sat down with Marvel to discuss what he’d bring to the comic.
Pair the writing with art by Adam Kubert and Juan Frigeri and you have one great looking comic book. The pair have a lot of characters to draw in this and they do a great job with it. There’s a great image of Spider-Man when he tells Tinkerer that things are ending now. You can see the frustration he’s feeling with the whole situation and everything it’s accumulated to.
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. The Spectacular Spider-Man #299. B+. . Chip Zdarsky, Adam Kubert, Juan Frigeri, Jason Keith
Overall, the issue is building to the final twist, which will take us into the over-sized issue 300 next month. The issue works well with the “Most Wanted” storyline and it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out with Tinkerer walking right on out of a robot version of his brother to close out the issue.