Review: Amazing Spider-Man #509

Amazing Spider-Man #509
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Artist: Mike Deodato

A new artist is on board with Amazing Spider-Man, Mike Deodato who recently was working on Incredible Hulk. The smooth curves and lines of Deodato are a stark contrast to the previous artist, John Romita Jr. In some sense this change of style marks a new era for this title. No major gripes about the art which is pretty good - Deodato works the dialogue and action pretty well. My only question is, what are all those muscles Spidey has on his left arm in the cover? I don't think that's quite right...

As for the writing, we'll have to see where this goes. The story starts off innocently enough but depending on where it's headed, the events could be a red herring or could be somewhat scary. The book was pretty good, but time will tell how the arc plays out.

As a side note, Astonishing X-Men #2 by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday was quite good. Not spectacular but pretty enjoyable, with clean art and some snappy dialogue.