Daredevil #22 – Review

By: Mark Waid (story), Chris Samnee (art), Javier Rodriguez (colors)

The Story: Daredevil begins to wonder if any of his friends are acting like themselves anymore.

The Review: Not being much of a Spider-Man fan, I didn’t hear all of the hoopla about the big switcheroo in Amazing Spider-Man #700 until the day after.  I don’t know what people were so up in arms about.  The chances of actually killing off Peter Parker are about the same as me being put in charge of Marvel editorial.  Marvel may be brave enough to pull that off with Captain America, but they can’t even keep up the pretense for more than a few weeks for Spidey.

With that in mind, the premise of putting Doctor Octopus (a villain whom I never thought of as even remotely a big deal) into Peter Parker’s body and attached with all of Peter’s morals and hang-ups seems like a pretty interesting idea.  Since I’ve always had a particular fascination with the moral malleability of superheroes and villains, I’m rather invested in the outcome, actually.  At any rate, it can’t be any worse than turning every Manhattan resident into a spider-mutant.