{"id":157,"date":"2015-05-19T02:52:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T02:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2015-05-19T08:31:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T15:31:47","slug":"amazing-spider-man-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Spider-Man 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In which we conclude the current volume of this series by having the anarchic saboteur Ghost demolish Parker Industries. \u00a0As much as I love Dan Slott\u2019s writing, I think the time may come for me to part ways with Spider-Man; during the Superior Spider-Man era, in which Otto Octavius inhabiting Peter Parker\u2019s body resulted in a Spider-Man series without fun, I had to intentionally douse my love of Spider-Man down to the embers in order to break up with it. \u00a0And now Peter Parker\u2019s back, and Spider-Verse was fun in a \u201cfun but exhausting\u00a0<span class=\"il\">vacation<\/span> that was way too jam-packed with activities\u00a0and now I\u2019m glad it\u2019s over and looking forward to getting back to real life\u201d kind of way\u2026 but my heart\u2019s just not in it, and my anticipation for the upcoming Secret Wars series \u201cRenew Your Vows,\u201d teasing at the return of Peter\u2019s magically-annulled marriage to Mary Jane, is tepid at best. \u00a0But for now, this issue had two big things going for it: first, Otto\u2019s genius ex-girlfriend Anna Maria Marconi, who is\u00a0perfect as Peter Parker\u2019s ally and not <i>yet another<\/i> person around whom he needs to tip-toe. \u00a0I\u00a0just love the way she blithely cuts through Peter\u2019s entire <i>lifestyle<\/i> of secrecy and lies, and in this issue, she even donned a pair of modified web-shooters to help snare the Ghost. \u00a0Secondly: Black Cat affirming\u00a0her new role as supervillain by stealing back\u00a0everything she lost during her most recent incarceration\u2026 and then setting it all on fire! \u00a0I\u2019ve often felt that there is a lack of quality Marvel villains in\u00a0recent years, so I think Black Cat is <em>much<\/em> better served as an adversary to Spider-Man than as yet another one of his on-again\/off-again love interests. \u00a0Faster, Felicia, kill, <em>kill! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which we conclude the current volume of this series by having the anarchic saboteur Ghost demolish Parker Industries. \u00a0As much as I love Dan Slott\u2019s writing, I think the time may come for me to part ways with Spider-Man; during the Superior Spider-Man era, in which Otto Octavius inhabiting Peter Parker\u2019s body resulted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic_round-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}