Amazing Spider-Man #699.1

By: Joe Keating/Dan Slott (writers), Valentine Delandro/Marcos Checchetto (artists) and Antonio Fabela (colorist)

The Story: Morbius, the living vampire, reminisces about his life while he gets away from confinement.

The Review: Morbius, as a character, has never been truly one of the more memorable characters in Spider-Man rogue’s gallery or even as a heroic figure. A lot of his appearances are either in team books like Denis Hopeless Legion of Monsters or as a villain in books like Amazing Spider-Man. Considering that there is a book starring him that will debut next month and that this issue is supposed to interest us readers in Morbius as a character, this issue has a lot of things to achieve.

Unfortunately, the story is a little bit bland and unimaginative, retelling the very same origin that has been seen for the character, which was not very original when it was created in the 70’s. We do get to see some of his past and some important figures in Morbius past, yet after reading the whole issue, there is not much to base a whole ongoing upon.