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    The Amazing Spider-Man » The Amazing Spider-Man #644 - Origin of the Species, Part 3 released by Marvel on November 1, 2010.

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    Review: Amazing Spider-Man #644

    Spidey's hopeless race to save Norman Osborn's bastard baby escalates as Vulture, Vermin, Rhino, Mysterio and the Chameleon join the gauntlet of villains.
     

    The Good

    Good lord, does Waid know how to play on expectations. I was genuinely surprised by the introductions of Mysterio and the Chameleon, and Spidey's solution to Rhino's rampage was genuinely unpredictable. More importantly, none of them felt like cop-outs to ease the plot. Character drove the plot, not the other way around. I was hesitant about Azaceta's art in the first issue I read, but I've warmed up to his depiction of Spidey in this issue. The style of rendering really adds to the frenetic feel and the weight of every blow and set back he faces.

    The Bad

    The drawback of pitting Spidey against such an insurmountable odds is that, at the same time, it makes a little harder to believe that he wouldn't already be defeated. He's got his entire rogues' gallery coming after him and the entire NYPD and every nosy New Yorker with a camera phone. It might've been a lie on the Chameleon's part, but his line about everybody in NY knowing exactly where Spidey is begs the question of why he isn't already cornered.

    The Verdict - 4/5

    This has proven to be one of the most frenetic, fast-paced thrillers I've ever seen Spidey involved in. It's like some wonderful love child of Jackie Chan, Buster Keaton and Speed, with some serious drama and impressive physical humor to underlay the relentless action. The revelations at the end of this were just intense procession of nailbiters -- I really need to see the next issue of ASM now!

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      The Amazing Spider-Man #644 - Origin of the Species, Part 3 by marvelguy15 on September 30, 2010

           The origin of species continues here in issue 644, we start with a woman freaking out about losing her baby and we see that she is at the police department demanding that she get her baby back from Spider-Man, turns out she is not the first woman to come to the police station for this. We jump to spidey being attacked by Vulture and then being ambushed by Freak. It then switches to a scence involing Tombstone, Carlee Cooper, and the police.There is a great little scence in here in with D...

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      The Amazing Spider-Man #644 - Origin of the Species, Part 3 by hahamanhv on November 04, 2010

      And the ongoing saga of Spider-Man and a baby continues! I must say, it seems like this is more of a conclusion of the Gauntlet than anything else was, what with villains like Electro, Sandman, Rhino and Vulture coming through. And seeing how I loved the Gauntlet, this story is building steam in my mind and with the halfway point here, I’ve gotta say, we’re in for one great ending (Or so I hope!)      The issue opens with, you guessed it, Spider-Man swinging through the city with the littlest...

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