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The Amazing Spider-Man #677 - The Devil and the Details, Part 1

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Spider-Man is single and looking for love, so how about Black Cat?

Black Cat gets herself in trouble, so Spider-Man and Daredevil team-up to help her out.

The Good

This was a pretty cool issue, and a start to a nice 2-part story. A nice open and shut case. Pretty cool to see Mark Waid on this book, and I really enjoyed the story for the most part. I love seeing a good team-up and the Daredevil and Spider-Man team-up work incredibly well in this issue, especially in one moment of this issue where Daredevil's powers trump Spider-Man's powers.

Emma Rios took over art duties for this issue, and above all else, she has the most interesting panel set-ups I've see this week, and maybe even this month (or year, I guess, since it is 2012 now) so far. Straight on shots are rare in this issue. There's always a unique angle to each panel which helps create this really cool feeling of chaos to the book.

The Bad

I know it's a big part of Marvel comics, but I'm not a fan of heroes pining away about their lost loves, which is the opening to this issue. I don't like my heroes to be incredibly personable. Spider-Man comes off a bit whiny to boot.

I'm a bit split on the art. While I love it (especially the panel set-ups), I don't love it for this book. I don't feel like Rios' art is right for a Spider-Man book, or even a super-hero book at all. Her art would work best on something more along the lines of a action-packed crime book. Costumed characters seem a bit out-of-place with her art.

The Verdict

This is a pretty big departure from the Dan Slott/Humberto Ramos runs we've become accustomed to. Overall, it's a good read and I like it, but I have a feeling I'll like it a whole lot more as a complete story. The Daredevil/Spider-Man team up is really cool, and I love how Emma Rios sets up individual panels within the issue; however, I didn't feel like her art works in the realm of super-heroes. She seems like an artist that would work best in the crime genre. Overall, I'll give this issue a recommendation, and I'm excited to sit down with issue 678.