#mockingbir

At the beginning of this comic, we see Spider-Man’s long-time adversary, Norman Osborn, undergoing another round of plastic surgery, a scene very reminiscent of the Joker doing the same thing in Tim Burton’s Batman (1989). The result is after so many facial reconstructions to disguise himself like a second-rate Chameleon, Osborn is now horribly disfigured. Yet despite a face having the consistency of melted candle wax, Osborn claims that since he’s no longer insane from the Goblin formula, he’s better than he’s ever been… …. In a way writer Dan Slott probably didn’t intend, Osborn’s disfigurement makes a perfect metaphor for Amazing Spider-Man’s current state. The current volume of Amazing Spider-Man is so twisted, distorted, deconstructed, and far-removed from what makes Spider-Man Spider-Man, it might as well not be a Spider-Man comic series. If anything, the latest issue reads like the script for a bad G.I. Joe episode. Scratch that. Even bad episodes of G.I. Joe were never this boring… …. Despite being told during previous chapters of “The Osborn Identity” of how desperate Peter was for a “win” in his hunt for Osborn—to the point of being branded a fugitive by S.H.I.E.L.D.—his attitude comes off very nonchalant here. Granted, Spidey makes plenty of his patented bad wisecracks again, but they seem out of place given what Slott has established… …. Also, for someone quick to berate Silver for her ruthlessness last issue, Spidey does some rather celebratory gloating after witnessing Mockingbird send Goblins to their fiery would-be deaths. Oh sure, they conveniently survive, but it’s not like Spidey knows this beforehand. Guess potential love interests get a pass when it comes to his “no killing” rule… …. But that leads us back to Amazing Spider-Man vol. 4 #27’s major flaw. It has the appearance of a Spider-Man story without actually being one. Whose to say you couldn’t substitute Spider-Man, Osborn, and Mockingbird with Iron Man, Black Widow, and Doctor Doom, and wind up with the same results? Or Captain America, Sharon Carter, and Red Skull? Seems Spider-Man is the one having problems settling on an identity.

Went to wordhippo to get a synonym (or at least something close) to a mockingbird and-