duo_forbidden's The Amazing Spider-Man #644 - Origin of the Species, Part 3 review

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    Babysitting shouldn't be this hard

    Spidey continues to protect the newborn of Norman Osborn while on the run against his rouge gallery of villains who are after the kid.

    Pros:

    This issue continues right off of the last with Spidey protecting the newborn of Norman Osborn and Lily Hollister from his rogue villains. We see four new villains come out to play along with a surprising one at the end of the issue. Besides the last villain to appear, the encounter with Rhino was the most interesting one after all that has happened to him during The Gauntlet. His grudge with Spider-man is very understandable and with some convincing that his target should be just Spider-man alone and not with the baby made Rhino back down. Vulture and Freak didn't really provide much of a challenge, but Mysterio gave Spidey a small go around.

    I have to say the ending was not what I expected to be. It was a nice twist to keep this arc a bit more interesting.

    Cons:

    This issue was almost like the last issue of Spider-man continuing to be on the run against the police and his rouge of villains while protecting the newborn child, with some pages of what Harry, MJ, Lily, Charlie and Doctor Octopus are up to. The supporting cast are becoming a bit annoying, especially Charlie, who still goes on about Peter and now, starts to care about Lily after what happened last issue. There are some changes to this and a bit of development though to keep it from not repeating itself.  

    I said this a couple of times already with the last few issues, and I don't like to repeat this again, but I really don't think this art is for this arc. There's no real errors with it, and there are some noticeable pages, but I just don't think it suits this story.

    Overall, Origin of the Species part III is slightly better than the last two issues, but it still have time for some improvement with only two issues left.

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