midnight_sun's What If...? #31 - What if Spider-Man Had Kept His Cosmic Powers review

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    What if Spider-Man Had Kept His Cosmic Powers

    A good story with some good art. It was interesting to see what Spidey would do with all that power. Instead of becoming a bad guy trying to do good things, he just kept doing good things until it got to the point he was forcing himself onto others. A nice refreshing change from how stories like this usually go. It's also cool to see that instead of merely traversing the following Spidey arcs from the Tri-Sentinel story, they explored the full-scope of the uni-power and threw him into arcs from other books to solve their conflicts as well. When you've got a cosmically powered Spidey, keeping him restrained to his own titles would've been a big mistake.

    A couple of things about the story bothered me, however. First off, MJ tells Peter that she was always terrified to go web-slinging with him and now more so that he flies. Since when? The MJ I know would love to go web-slinging (although wouldn't make a habit out of it). Then there was the Central Park fight with Venom. Spidey said because the park was full of people he had to take the fight to the woods. What woods? The nearest woods would be across the river into New York State or New Jersey. And finally, Venom's speech: "my", "I'll", "me". When Brock got the symbiote, he began speaking in plurals. In this issue, he does not.

    Four stars. Lost a star for those nitpicks, but otherwise a good read.

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