The Amazing Spider-Man # 590 - Face Front, Part One: Together For The First Time Again

is a comic book published by Marvel Publishing & released on 6 / / 2009

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Plot Summary

An adventure from Spider-man and the Fantastic Four's past is about to have a profound effect on their future...Thats if Spidey and the Torch can stop fighting long enough to notice! What's the cosmic rift thats separating two of Marvel U.'s best friends? Plus a dark turn for Harry Osborn. A new role for Mr. Negative. And the start of a story that will effect almost every title at Marvel Comics! We kid you not.

Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four went to the Macroverse some time ago, but some time ago Peter wore no mask during the trip. The five of them saved a princess from some kind of ambush making them heroes.

Then One More Day happened

Now Osborn is leader and the new Nick Fury which makes it hard foe Spidey to keep his superhero licence since catching bad guys isn't good anymore, Looter being the one who made him aware of that. So spidey does the only thing he can do; give him a wedgie.

The FF went after Spider-Man and asked him to acompany them again to the Macroverse because the people from the marcoverse had contacted Reed in a cry for help.Peter refused the offer until Reed put money in it so he would not have overdue bills when he came back.

Over at F.E.A.S.T. Aunt May was very busy even with the help of Mr. Li, AKA: Mr. Negative and also the might-be future Mayor.

Harry now is in need of of help and Peter has left. Harry only leaves a drunken message saying he has done something stupid. The he tries to get the help of Carlie.

The Fanatastic Family gets ready to leave and Reed is ready to take the newest Fantasti-car he has made. Sue says her goodbyes to Valeria and Franklin leaving them in the care of "Aunt Alicia and Uncle Arlo".

Using Pym particles they are of into the dimension under their own. They arrive into a not-so-prehistoric place where they encounter statues of themselves. Torch realizes something odd; Spider-Man's statue is whitout a mask. The people from the macroverse then go up to who they think is their gods. Reed sees how old the statutes are making an intreasting point in how time passes there.

The people from the Macroverse are then atacked by similar people they fought last time only this time they had canons. Under the protection of Sue Richard's force field Reed tries to explain his most recent discovery. Torch and Spider then go at it breaking their friendship over how Johnny doesn't remember who is it who is under the mask. Spider-Man says then that he's not supposed to know, that he will "not go down that road again. No one knows! That-- that's how it has be! No exceptions!" He then sacrifices his friendship over it. Johnny mad a t this then burs Spider-Man's mask off.

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    Alan Fine
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  • Dan Slott
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  • Joe Caramagna
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    Mark Farmer
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  • Tom Brevoort
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    User Reviews
    My First ASM Issue!
    Reviewed by sora_thekey on April 3, 2009.
    sora_thekey has written 11 reviews. His/her last review was for The New World According to Peter Parker Part 2.
    4 out of 4 users recommend his reviews.

    2 out of 2 users found this review helpful.
    I will admit...... I was one of the many people who vetoed Amazing Spider-Man for what they did to MJ.
    Not until this issue I am once agin reading ASM.....

    I am not going to say I loved it because even a year after OMD I am still mad MJ is gone from the picture but this was a good issue to jump back in. The story starts with the Macroverse an even prior to One More Day and with Spider-Man's mask off. During this story the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man must return to the Macroverse where now they are known as the 5 gods.The curious thing is that the statue for Spidey has no mask on which rises questions to his best friend: The Human Torch.

    This is my first issue so I'm not sure ut there seems to be some continuity errors like the fact that Peter seems to know about mephisto's agreement.

    The last page makes me wonder if this whole story was made just so Peter's status quo among super heroes is back to normal, also because of what happened in New Avengers #51

    It left questions I want answered and had a very good cliffhanger.



    Nobody's Non-Video Review of Spider-Man #590
    Reviewed by Nobody on April 1, 2009.
    Nobody has written 22 reviews. His/her last review was for Red-Headed Stranger: Tenth of September.
    1 out of 1 users recommend his reviews.

    9 out of 9 users found this review helpful.
    Alright, so I'm not going to do a fancy video review on here like some people on here do. But lets do some of the basics.

    Storyline starts off with a classic adventure with the Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four in the Microverse. This is taking place before the events of One More Day. Spider-Man during this little adventure is shown with his mask off through the whole thing while he is hanging with the F4. After saving some of the locals of this Microverse, it jumps ahead to the present time.

    Spider-Man is arresting the villain Looter, when behind him is an Iron Patriot poster. Looter tells Spider-Man that times are different and he won't even have to spend one night in jail. After making a joke, Spider-Man wings off where he runs into the Fantastic Four. Mr. Fantastic tells him that they had received a distress signal from the Microverse asking for the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man. Spider-Man agrees to go with them, but as he does Human Torch makes the comment that for some reason he no longer has his name or number anymore. Spider-Man quickly cut him off though. Meanwhile, at F.E.A.S.T. Martin Li, also known as Mr. Negative, is asked to run for Mayor of New York City. Harry Osborn was also shown to take up drinking, probably due to his girlfriend turning out to be Menace.

    While in the Microverse, they find that civilization there had expanded greatly. They also found out that the people of the Mircoverse believed Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four to be Gods. They even had statues made for each of them. Mr. Fantastic made a comment that his face appeared much older than it should have. Human Torch notices that Spider-Man's is no wearing his mask and remembers that during there last adventure in the Mircoverse Spider-Man was completely maskless, yet he can't remember what Spider-Man looked like. Spider-Man tells him to drop it, but then they are attacked by men riding giant lizards.  Mr. Fantastic tells Invisible Woman to put a force field around them so he could try to explain something about the Microverse to them. Before he gets a chance though, Human Torch starts freaking out again about not knowing who Spider-Man. Spider-Man tells him one more time to drop it, that nobody can know who he is again. Spider-Man pushed Human Torch down, and as he starts to walk away, Human Torch blasts the back of his mask. Quickly Spider-man throws his burning mask to the ground. When Human Torch sees Spider-Man face the only thing he can say is, "NO WAY!" or close to that.

    Alright, so my thoughs on the issue. Overall it was a fun cosmic adventure with the Fantastic Four. Felt very "classic" adventure to me. It was kinda nice getting away from the normal. Now Highlight notes:

    • Mr. Negative running for Mayor - I have a feeling this will at least be played on more during his Dark Reign Tie-In, if not later in Amazing Spider-Man.
    • Harry Osborn's Drinking - This kinda reminds me when he started doing drugs. I would hope they wouldn't do another one of those story arcs with the exact same person though.
    • Human Torch's Reaction - This is very big for me. I like how someone isn't just letting it go that the whole world has forgetten Spider-Man's identity. I mean they remember they used to know who he was, so you would think people would be looking into this.
    • Spider-Man's Reaction - He kept telling Human Torch to drop it everytime he brought up his identity. He then told Human Torch that nobody can know who he is again. No exceptions! First off that line sorta goes against New Avengers #51, where he just revealed himself to his teammates. But also what is important about this, is that Spider-Man seemed to know about the deal with Mephisto, or at least he knew something happened that changed his life to the state it is in now.



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