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By Lee Roberts

Amazing Spiderman 691 and Wolverine 311

So I haven't had time to read much or look at what's coming out next week, nor to find out what kind of news is happening this week in the comic world and I got to say I'm going in withdrawls. Because of I haven't read much all I can talk about are the 2 comics I did read (that's right 2 comics this week instead of nearly 30 that I usually read) and the little bit of news that I do know of (which is not much either(yeah it's been a sad week for me comic book wise)).
What 2 comics did I read? Amazing Spider-Man #691 Wolverine #311. Both very good but with one I was a little dismayed with what was done with Peter Parker more so than who Logan ends up fighting. But I'll get to that in a minute, let me first talk about issue #691 and the conclusion to the Lizard storyline, "No Turning Back".
I got to say I was impressed with the writting of Dan Slott for this story. Here was Lizard, someone who in the past seemed like he might be strong but he was still an overgrown lizard. Spidey could beat this guy with no problem, at least the old Lizard. This new one is one to be feared and not the easiest of foes to take down. Before there were the two personalities of the Lizard and Curt Conners fighting over the use of the body. Not anymore, the Lizard is now in full control of the body and mind where he has been able to easily defeat Spidey and get away. Until now where Moribus helps cure (or does he) the Lizard.
Ok, what I didn't like about this story ---SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS--- is that when Spidey gets the cure he has to make a decision of sticking the needle in the brain of the Lizard. This could or could not end up killing him but Spidey decides that the only way the cure would work is if it was injected into the brain. He does it and it actually works, in a odd way where now the mind of the Lizard is no longer there but it's Curt Conners, a more sane Curt Conners, is now in the body of the Lizard, a prison of the mind in a evil body.


I don't care that the Lizard didn't die and that the cure worked, the simple fact is that Dan Slott had Spider-Man make a choice in trying to cure the Lizard by injecting him the brain in which case it had a good chance of killing him or doing it in the body where it probably wouldn't work but it wouldn't have a chance of killing him. How is this any different than him making the choice of breaking a villains back to cripple there in order to stop them from killing others? It's crude, but basically the same theory where he will take the chance of killing a villain in order to stop him from killing others.
I'll say one word that has me pissed with the new storyline in Wolverine.
CLONES!


What the frack is going on here? Why is Sabertooth a clone? No wait, that's single, he's plural, clones! Nope Logan didn't kill Sabertooth when he chopped off his head, which was a clone. How are they explaining this? By having Wolverine say that he thought something was odd because Sabertooth didn't smell right. I don't know about anyone else but I was fine with the idea of Sabertooth being dead. In fact when they killed him (or the clone now) I thought it was a great idea because this could lead to a bigger and badder nemesis for Wolverine to fight. Which I thought was going to be Romulus but now it just seems like that was a filler story until we find out that the clone plague is now reaching into the Wolverine title.