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Spider-Man: The Mutant Agenda by Steven Grant

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


The Mutant Agenda features the comic book version of the 1990s Spidey mini-series in which Peter Parkers is attending a lecture from the Brand Corporation on mutants. This ties into the work Hank McCoy did at Brand before his transformation to his more beastial form back in the 1970s. Hobgoblin also becomes involved.

It's simple story but it's got some decent ideas. The biggest fault with it is that there's really nothing special about it. It's a simple story that could have been run in any Spidey magazine for three issues, maybe as few as two. A mini-series should have something special about it and this doesn't. I also feel the art is a bit weak towards the end. The most interesting thing about it is that it was adapted into an episode of Spider-man: The Animated Series that crossed over with the X-men and that's by far, a better way to experience this story.

It also includes the comic strip adaptation. While I have a lot of affection for the comic strip, this story doesn't work well in that context as we get the same story as in the comics but it doesn't work as well and seems padded.

Finally, we get an issue of Marvel Team-up featuring Spider-man and Beast that's not bad at all, but not classic.

Overall, this is not bad Spider-man, but flawed. It's nothing upsetting or that annoying, but it's mediocre Spidey from an era where the character was over-exposed as a profit grab.



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