The Amazing Spider-Man #795 Review

Dan Slott has been flying solo on Amazing Spider-Man for the better part of a decade now, and that doesn’t even count his many contributions during the series’ Brand New Day era. But even after all that time and with Slott’s Spider-Man saga so close to the end, I still find myself wishing we could get more. The drawback to this current “Threat Level Red” story arc is that Slott and co-writer Christos Gage are telling entertaining stories that could be that much better with a little more space to breathe.

The good news is that issue #795 doesn’t suffer as much as #794 from being crammed into a done-in-one format. Mostly, that’s due to the fact that Slott and Gage aren’t resolving one of their own open plot points, but rather tackling a loose thread that dates all the way back to J. Michael Straczynski’s tenure on the series. In the process, readers get an amusing team-up between Spidey and the current Sorcerer Supreme, Loki. The way the writers revive that loose thread and make it work in the context of Loki’s new status quo is extremely clever.

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