Sensational Spider-Man 30 Review

The next stop on the really big comic book box of doom is an issue of Sensational Spider-Man from August 1998. In this latest comic book review, we have Spider-Man and the Black Cat going up against Arcade at Murderworld. As always, the crazed assassin has more than a few tricks right up his particularly demented sleeves.

Sensational Spider-Man 30 Review

Sensational Spider-Man was released by Marvel Comics with a cover date of August 1998, with the title of Cat and Mouse. This comic book had the writing talens of Todd DeZago, Penciled by Javier Saltares, Also inked by Javier Salatres, with coloring by Gregory Wright, and finally this issue was lettered by Comicraft.

Here I stand here, presented with a perfectly acceptable issue of Spider-Man. It was a nice, mostly self contained story but at the same time, it moved some plotlines along. Of course, looking at the cover date, this was around the time where Marvel really had one foot in the gutter, due to the comic book speculators market of the nineties just rather killing it. And we're a few months away from the huge reboot of death that pretty much killed Spider-Man for years, before rebounding until One More Day and subsequent stories pretty much trashed it for a substantial portion of the fanbase.

But don't get me started about the self destructive path that current Spider-Man continuity has taken over recent years, because we have Sensational Spider-Man Issue 30.

So Black Cat, who at this point in Spider-Man continuity is a private detective, is investigating a runaway, but she needs back up. Who better than our web slinger. As it turns out, Arcade is behind the entire trip and we go right to Murderworld.

I adore Murder World, it just seems like a really fun to get creative. And granted, this issue was not the most inspired issue. Although there was a nice little crack about clones that Spidey gave, because we were coming right off of the Clone Saga and the tangled mess that left in its wake.

Yeah, Spider-Man, one of the most beloved heroes, but there are a lot of times where meddling from above tends to really undermine him.

That was actually an intelligent move by Spider-Man, faking out Arcade, to defuse his traps with the Black Cat android. What some writers miss is that Spider-Man actually does have a brain and can be rather competent.

Of course we have one of the most cliche scenes ever in Spider-Man, where Peter freaks out that someone might have learned that he is Spider-Man, oh no he didn't, but wait they didn't, so he's safe, and we all ha-ha about how Peter is paranoid.

That does come with the territory with these comics. And as for this comic, how did I enjoy it. What did Sensational Spider-Man have to offer? A pretty fun and light read, most certainly worth my time.