Amazing Spider-Man: The Clone Conspiracy Review

Finished reading Amazing Spider-Man: The Clone Conspiracy, bringing another Spider-Man centric event into fruition as Spider-Man finds himself fighting against the resurrection of multiple people from his past that have apparently come back from the dead. The book opens with Spider-Man at the funeral of his Aunt May's most recent husband Jay Jameson Sr where J Jonah Jameson blames Peter for his father's death for not agreeing with going with a procedure from the company New U. After the funeral Peter along with his colleague Anna Maria Marconi decide to meet with one of Peter's employees who had the procedure from New U only to discover that the employee has been taken to New U after missing his medication on a camping trip. This leads to Spider-Man going to New U's headquarters in San Francisco where he soon discovers that the company is run by his villain, the Jackal who has been busy bring the dead back to life by closing them with all their memories intact. Things take a turn when the Gwen Stacey clone is found out to be Spider-Gwen who is helping Kaine to stop New U because the world becomes a over run by zombie like creatures that Kane and Gwen have already witnessed happen on multiple parallel universes. Overall this was a great book as writer Dan Slot takes the lead in the story that see Spider-Man dealing with the return of clones affecting his life again as the action feels as important as the character interactions and development with the situations they find themselves in which also show in even within the parts of the book that is written and cowritten by Sean Ryan, Robbie Thompson and Christos Gage. The book has some great twists and turns that bring back some older characters to the Marvel Universe and sets them for the future stories especially with the reappearance of Kaine along with the surprising development and return of Ben Reilly sends the characters into some interesting directions thanks to what they have to deal with in the book and the positions it leads them. While the Silk and Prowler parts of the book are used to great effect as the give a different view to the events of the main story while also giving some of the supporting cast members more time within the book to develop and come to terms with what is happening within the story as well. The art throughout the book is great as each art team is able to bring the story to life extremely and give each part of the book it's own feel with the change of character taken centre focus while also still makes it feel like a connected part of the book. 8/10.