Finished reading Amazing Spider-Man: Edge of Spider-Verse, this book allows multiple creative teams to tell stories that feature alternative versions of Spider-Man. The book opens with the story of how Spider-Man Noir found himself on Superior Spider-Man's interdimensional team when Karn the inheritor finds Spider-Man Noir as he battles his universe's version of Mysterio. The next story features a world where Gwen Stacy got spider powers and Peter Parker was the one that died during a supervillain fight instead of Gwen as she try's to juggle her college life while being the drummer of a band while her father leads a police force that what's to bring her in. The following story follows Doctor Aaron Aikman, The Spider-Man of this reality who finds himself against the cybernetic villain Naamurah who has been kidnapping people to turn into cyborgs like herself. The penultimate story is a horror version of Spider-Man's origin as the odd Patton Parnel who slowly becomes a monstrous spider like creature when he starts getting the appetite for domestic animals and humans after being bitten by an irradiated spider. The final story is an manga version Spider-Man named SP//dr who's daughter becomes the newest SP//dr after the original's death as Peni Parker takes her fathers mantle as she fights against the crime in her city. Overall this was a great book as it dives into several different versions of Spider-Man that feel very much like pilot stories however the Aaron Aikman, Spider-Man and the horror stories are more one offs due to their endings. While the Spider-Man Noir, Spider-Gwen and SP//dr stories link into the oncoming Spider-Verse event very well by using characters that appeared in the Amazing Spider-Man back ups as well as an appearance of Superior
Spider-Man in the Noir story. Each writing team does a great job in telling a consistent and extremely captivating story at the same time as new characters and concepts are extremely interesting to read due to how different some of the stories are. While each story does a great job in catching up the reader with the goings on within each universe extremely well making each story incredibly easy to understand the characters and their motivations. The art throughout the book is amazing as each art team work well of the tone and setting of each different story extremely well. 8.5/10.
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