Symbiote Spider-Man: Alien Reality

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SPIDER-MAN 2099, is facing a hostile takeover – of his own body! Kron Stone, the VENOM of 2099, wages an all-out assault on Alchemax, and the only hope of stopping him lies with the power awakened by a top-secret project gone terribly wrong. What must Miguel sacrifice to seal the bond Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse ended with a tease of Spider-Man 2099, who is to feature prominently in the upcoming Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse. And the character's co-creator Peter David has written a comic book spinoff that Marvel will be publishing in August, as part of his run of past-set Symbiote-linked stories, Symbiote Spider-Man 2099. The sky opens and energy tendrils ensnare Spidey and Hulk, transporting them to Lemuria, the realm of the Deviants and Warlord Kro. Kro gives them a tour and a history of the stone in Hulk’s possession and how its origin rests with the immortal space gods, the Celestials. Enter a mess of Eternals and the return of Karnilla who steals the stone and departs. Spidey, Hulk, and the Eternal Icarus give chase. Just when Karnilla seems triumphant, here comes Zuras, Leader of the Eternals and one last guest star, All-Father Odin, who puts Karnilla in her place and crushes the stone.

This got pulled in so many different directions that I started to think it was going to be horrible... but then I just relaxed and let myself go on the ride. Canon or not doesn't matter when it comes to symbiote stuff. It all kind of fizzles out in the final issue however. David attempts to get philosophical with the Word Of God and how imagination and Spider-Man feed into that, but the issue ends so abruptly that we don't get to explore any of it, which is a bit disappointing. Ultimately, I enjoyed the characterizations of Peter, Quentin, Felicia, and May even if they seem to be more modern versions of the characters than what I think we’d have seen in ’84. Being able to explore a more nuanced view of these characters than what was being presented in those days will be interesting. Se supone que ésta serie transcurre entre los sucesos del evento "Traje alienígena" de Spiderman, que es lo que continuó para el personaje una vez que regresó del Battleworld en Secret Wars. Quise releer el primer tomo de esta saga y encontré a un precio de remate este tomo y pensé que si ya estaba leyendo esta saga pues debería de continuar.The next portal takes them to the ships of the Eternals and the Deviants. Everyone wants this stone! Normally this wouldn’t bother me a whole lot because I’m here for a Symbiote Spider-Man story, not so much an event tie-in, but this story was just flat-out dumb. Very out of character for the previous instalments from this creative team. Symbiote Spider-Man: Alien Reality can't reach the heights of the first Symbiote series, but it's still perfectly serviceable and plenty of fun. It was a fast read, and honestly, it was a little hollow. Which I think is my issue with Symbiote Spider-Man as a whole. Rather than really exploring the era or Peter's relationship with the costume, this all feels really surface level, with a few references to the continuity but nothing really to say about it.

This time, they are in a prehistoric time/dimension that closely resembles early Planet of the Apes, including Devil Dinosaur and the ape-like Moon Boy. When the locals try to sacrifice Bruce to a giant spider, he connects with the stone and becomes something that looks close to an alien xenomorph, calling himself Brian. The two of them are transported to the Valley of the Flame. Enter Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur (and does Devil Dinosaur look fearsome? Hell yes.). Banner, now in possession of the Norn stone, is captured by a tribe Moon Boy calls the Killer Folk who plan to sacrifice him to Long Legs, a giant spider. Enter the Guilt Hulk, another Banner persona, who lays waste to Long Legs.

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Symbiote Spider-Man’s not bad. It’s a run of the mill Spidey mini-series that kind of only exists so that Marvel could put out a story featuring Spidey and Mysterio while the Spider-Man: Far From Home hype train was in full swing. But Mysterio’s also in the main Amazing Spider-Man book, which is much better than this, so again I ask…why did this exist?