Amazing Spider-Man #800

GO DOWN SWINGING finale

Written by Dan Slott

Penciled by Everybody
Cover by Alex Ross
Published May 30, 2018

   Spider-Man assesses the damage and takes off. Realizing the anti-venom is the only way to stop the Goblin, he heads for Alchemax. On the way, Harry and Liz catch him up on the Normie situation while Jonah calls Eddie Brock for help.

You can always trust your pal Venom, Jonah.

   When Spidey reaches the vault, it's been raided - but a pumpkin bomb catches him up on Norman's next move. Parker broke the rules so now Aunt May and Mary Jane are his next targets. Before he can reach MJ though, Venom is already on the scene. She sounds the alarm which rattles the symbiote, but not the Red Goblin - who attacks. 

Watch out, now.

   At Aunt May's apartment, an innocent Normie knocks on the door but before he can hurt her, Doc Ock jumps in to protect her. The fight gets intense but not as bad as the one in Stark Tower. Spider-Man, Venom and a repulsor glove wearing MJ hit the goblin simultaneously but Osborne is able to counter it.

   Eventually he's had enough and retreats. Eddie tells Spider-Man to use his symbiote if he's going to have a chance of winning. And so clad in black again, Pete takes off. Before he can get to Aunt May's, Doc Ock fights to protect her from the Goblin Childe. He's joined remotely by Jonah in the Spider Slayer before eventually, grandad Red Goblin shows up to make quick work of what's left.

   When Spidey swings in, the Goblin is on his way out. He finds a wounded May and Octavious, forgiving Ock for all past transgressions for saving his Aunt. Meanwhile Norm and Normie meet Liz at Alchamax in order to make a deal. She declines and hurriedly explains to her son the situation as Harry flies out on a goblin glider and attacks his father with humanitrons. Osborne gets the upper hand and throws Liz from the window. Spider-Man saves her, and seeing his grandfather's true side, Normie turns on him. The red goblin gets pinned by the glider and Liz and Harry promise to love Normie forever.

I don't know what it is, but something about this looks awfully familiar.

   The fight rages outside between Spider-Man and Osborne. He reveals to the webcrawler that he's left tiny shards of the carnage virus in each of his victims. Nearly all of his friends and family are affected. But when he tries to activate it, nothing happens. Flash Thompson used all of the rest of his anti-venom to save them....

Way to go!

You know, this is way too much review for one video. An 80 page comic book? Let's fast track it a little bit.


Flash Thompson is critically wounded during the fight and sadly passes away. Red Goblin lands in Times Square and decides to straight up murder everyone while Spider-Man does all he can to stop him. Finally he explains that Norman Osborne did nothing himself - it was really ALL the Carnage symbiote. They decide to have a mano-y-mano, non-suit fight and eventually Spider-Man is victorious.

Did we win?!

   In the end, Norman gets sent away to an insane asylum and thinks he's Cletus Kasady. Normie is saved from the Carnage symbiote. Flash Thompson is laid to rest as an American hero and the issue ends with one final epilogue.

RIP

   Max Modell welcomes his newest guest fellow Dr. Eliott Tarver to Horizon labs. As he greets a familiar Anna Maria Marconi, it turns out the doctor is none other than the Superior Spider-Man, Dr. Otto Octavious. What happens next? We'll have to wait as this arc is concluded.


   So I did my best but an 80 page book is a little too lengthy to review. Plus I have way too many other books to read. I'll save my farewell to Dan Slott for next issue but as far as this one goes, let's wrap it up. Not a whole lot of 5 minute long comic reviews on youtube. I give this one a 9/10.

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