Published: 1993
Written by: Danny Fingeroth
Art by: Scott McDaniel
Marvel Comics, 97 Pages
Review:
I recently revisited and reviewed one of my favorite miniseries in my youth, The Deadly Foes of Spider-Man. I was pretty impressed by it and so I wanted to read its sequel, which I missed when I was a kid.
Unfortunately, this one is a much weaker miniseries.
I think the biggest reason for that was because this one was just overloaded with characters, the villains weren’t really unified at any point and it was more like a Royal Rumble than a story about Spider-Man having to overcome a team of enemies with the objective of defeating the hero through shear numbers.
This picks up some of the plot threads from the previous story but honestly, everything seemed pretty much resolved already. Adding on to those stories didn’t really generate anything meaningful or that interesting.
I really liked the Sinister Syndicate team from Deadly Foes but only half of them returned and then we had other villains kind of randomly thrown in.
The story wasn’t necessarily hard to follow but it was a mess.
I’m not sure what went wrong but trying to do too much for the sake of simply upping the ante isn’t really a good approach.
Rating: 6/10
Pairs well with: The Deadly Foes of Spider-Man and The Superior Foes of Spider-Man.
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