Spider-Man #12 Review

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis / Artist: Sara Pichelli / Marvel Comics Things are as bad as they done ever been for the 616 man of spiders, Miles Morales. We joining up with Miles Morales after the end of Civil War II (thank god) and on the tail end of a call from his mother about not knowing where his father is. Well, I’m getting ahead of myself, we actually start off this issue with Miles and Spider-Gwen playing Texas hold’em with the tongues on one another. Miles is recounting this story to Fabio and Ganke and how it correlates with his missing father. In case you haven’t guessed it yet this is going to be a very dialogue heavy issue but this is what Bendis excels at.

Maria Hill steps onto the scene to tell Miles about what happened to her father, well, what she thinks happened to her father and it involves a mission to get some tech that allows a person to move between dimensions. Hill gives Miles the run down of how this situation came to be and how she is to blame and needing Jefferson to clean up her mess and now Miles as well. I enjoy Maria Hill’s dialogue because, in the face of all this weight on her shoulders, she has a fucking great sense of humor about everything. Hill isn’t coddling of Miles or talking down to him, she talks t him as if he’s an adult and gives him that real. Bendis, of course, has Miles eager to go forward and find his father no matter the cost. Miles then enters Spider-Gwen’s world and he realizes just how difficult the task of getting onto his …