Perhaps all along what this series needed was a little Christos Gage to smooth out the unsightly wrinkles. Dan Slott had been delivering Spider-Man stories of middling quality for months, but with Gage helping out on Danger Zone, this series continues to get better. A few longstanding problems still weigh the issue down -- inner monologue diarrhea, unfunny jokes -- but the pacing has improved enough to make Peter Parker’s escape from the Kingpin, two Hobgoblins, and a billion ninjas an enjoyable affair.
Roderick Kingsley once again dons the Hobgoblin mantle, and Giuseppe Camuncoli gives the entire page an unsettling creepiness worth of the villain’s reintroduction. Seeing the two Goblins clash make for some of the best visual moments of the issue, although their exchange of insults and threats could have been better written. Their fight brings just enough chaos down on Shadowland that what happens next with Peter and Max has a plausible amount of believability.
Being a genius inventor, Max seems on the cusp of figuring out Spider-Man’s secret identity. Watching him break into the private lab where Peter stores all of the gear he “makes for Spider-Man” had me holding my breath as to what he would discover in there. This, along with Madame Webb’s “flash of gold” prophecy and the seemingly innocuous golden spider-bot seen crawling out of the water, make for several mysteries to keep fans reading to see what will finally go down in the much-hyped Amazing Spider-Man #700.
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