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Alex seems off his game on this cover. Spider-Man\u2019s legs are weird and out of proportion. I wonder if he\u2019s supposed to be foreshortening. I know nothing about this. I read Infinity Gauntlet, and I followed Infinity War well enough to know the broad strokes, but only bought the first issue. By the time we got to Infinity Crusade, I absolutely couldn\u2019t be bothered. Especially hot on the heels of spending most of my comics money on Maximum Carnage. So I didn\u2019t buy the event or these tie-ins. The Infinity Gauntlet tie-in in Spider-Man 17<\/a> was pretty huge to young me. Infinity War (Whose big bad was the Magus, Adam Warlock\u2019s evil twin) spawning what were a bunch of temporary evil twins of various characters somehow wound up putting Doppelganger inthe Spider-Man titles for years, despite no one ever explaining why he was the only evil twin to hang around. I\u2019m not sure Infinity Crusade had a lasting impact on much of anything, but let\u2019s see how it goes. Alex is just on breakdowns this month with Don Hudson finishing, no doubt needing a breather after 3 months of 40 characters running around a war zone. Spider-Man is fighting \u201cThe Bedrocks,\u201d the dumb gang from Web 101, saying he\u2019s been hunting them since MAximum Carnage ended (Why, exactly?) and then The Goddess appears in a blinding light, saying she knows Spider-Man suffers and \u201ca new breed of here must be born today.\u201d No idea what her deal is or who she is. Ok, so I thought she might be someone else, but she is apparently a new character, created when Adam Warlock used the Infinity Gauntlet to purge both good and evil from his soul so he could be a logical, impartial god. His evil became the Magus (Even tho he fought the Magus way back in the 70s?), and his good became The Goddess. This all apparently happened in Infinity War. Now that The Magus has been defeated, I guess we gotta deal with the good side.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, if the Web art team was looking for a breather after Maximum Carnage, they are really, really out of luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fantastic Four, Avengers, Avengers West Coast,  X-Men, X-Factor, Alpha Flight, New Warriors, various space guys, loners like DD, Moon Knight and Hulk, the gang\u2019s all here. Well, all in those 2 places. I guess Paradise Omega must be on Counter-Earth, a copy of Earth created on the opposite side of the sun by The High Evolutionary and rotating in parallel. Ain\u2019t comics great? Warlock has a history with the place, and I think it was The Magus\u2019 home base in Infinity War. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, ok. Spider-Man being so deeply involved seems like a real problem for this series. One assumes anything of true importance will happen in the main book, and we\u2019re tying in for 3 whole issues? Back on Earth, JJJ and Robbie have a late night argument. The Goddess\u2019 influence has essentially halted evil on Earth, and JJJ is furious there\u2019s no newsworthy bad news in tomorrow\u2019s paper. Robbie, obviously, tells him that\u2019s stupid and leaves\u2026 to meet Betty. They\u2019re up to something, but it begins to be implied it\u2019s not an affair, which is nice. Not sure what it is, tho. Back in space, The Goddess offers more vague platitudes and entreats her followers to pray for her, and Spider-Man flashes back to how he got here, having a rooftop chat with MJ. They\u2019re discussing the friction between them recently about Spider-Man. I guess. The dialogue is pretty weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey thinks his lifelong passion for science leaves him enough room for doubt to question all this, and as the heroes silently break up, he follows Moondragon toward some kinda gigantic cathedral. She notices, cuts his web line with a mental blast, references a bunch of stuff from Infinity Crusade #2, which I obviously don\u2019t know, and says \u201cThe Goddess is unavailable for the duration of the rapture.\u201d Ok! I am really confused. I hate these mega-events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I literally don\u2019t know what\u2019s happening. Why are they fighting? Is Spider-Man filling the traditional Wolverine role here of being the only hero who hasn\u2019t been captured\/brainwashed\/etc? This sucks! I\u2019m so glad I didn\u2019t buy it as a kid, I would\u2019ve been even more upset then. As he chases Moony, the floor disappears, replaced by a raging fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man, is he gonna fight the ghosts of his dead loved ones? Again? Please say he\u2019s not. I guess only dedicating half of each issue to the crossover is one way to deal with it. When the cover said \u201cFrom the pages of Maximum Carnage: Nightwatch!,\u201d it turns out they meant he stars in a backup story. But I don\u2019t give a shit about Nightwatch. Half my Spider-Man comic is dedicated to Fake Spawn. I am SO GLAD I didn\u2019t buy this as a kid. Nightwatch inflicts some Traditional Spawn Violence on some guys stealing an \u201cancient Macedonian deathmask\u201d from a museum, and when confronted, their leader puts it on, apparently becoming a villain called Deathgrin. I literally do not care. 2 more issues of this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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