This is a fill-in issue with a "guest" creative team. It serves absolutely no purpose other than keeping things on schedule. There is no plot worth mentioning. There is one moment that matters to the characters. It's half a page. Peter Parker expresses to Black Cat that he's finally ready to move on from Mary Jane (again) and be more committed to her (again). I get it. Ongoing Marvel comics are soap opera. Soap opera is mostly filler. But soap opera can also be good. Friends, this is not good. Writer Joe Kelly does a respectable job trying to at least keep things funny but he's getting less than zero help from artist Terry Dodson. At no point now, or at any previous point in his career that I'm aware of, is Terry Dodson going to give you any cartooning. These are just drawings. These are pinup or sketchbook drawings of the characters in cool poses. He's good at that. But he's not going to give you any storytelling. He's not going to do anything to help make those Joe Kelly jokes land. It's just a bunch of drawings.
All right, let's fire up the Shaometer and rate this hunk of crap.
Writing: Joe Kelly. You're better than this Joe. Score: 2
Drawing: Terry Dodson penciler. Rachel Dodson inker. This comic has exactly one panel with an attempt at drawing a background. Said background is the ground. The ground is covered in snow. There are a couple of cars in it and a hint at what might be a building so we can assume that this story took place on something sort of like planet Earth. Other than that, the backgrounds are just vague shapes rendered in the coloring to imply trees. Score: 1
Colors: Terry Dodson. I like Dodson’s color palette choices and you'd almost respect the fact that the colorist is doing all the narrative heavy lifting and trying to create the illusion that these pinup poses exist in some world where things have shapes and colors. Almost, that is if we could ignore the fact that the lazy penciler and the hard working colorist are the same person. Score: 2
Lettering: VC's Joe Caramagna. It's fine. Score: 3
Total Score Average: 2 out of 5 Shanos
Love always. Your best pal ever,
Shano
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