The mysterious disappearance of an old friend brings Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat, to New York in search of answers, and a certain web-slinging ex-lover of hers is following the same trail. How long will it take before they do some... catching up? Collecting Spider-Man/Black Cat #1-6.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
An unscheduled turn,
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This review is from: Spider-Man / Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do (Amazing Spider-Man) (Hardcover)
The long delays that often dog Kevin Smith's comic-book scripts can sometimes have devastating results. In the case of "The Evil That Men Do," a tale pairing Spider-Man with ex-flame Felicia Hardy (the Black Cat), the long gap between issues caused fan interest to wane -- and created a Jekyll and Hyde dichotomy between the first half of the miniseries and the last.
Set in a period when Peter Parker was separated from his wife, Mary Jane, the reintroduction of the Black Cat was boiling with potential. While Mary Jane has proven time and again to be Peter's soulmate, there's no denying the chemistry when Spider-Man romps over the rooftops with Felicia. (Their relationship back in the day was more sexual than romantic, after all, and Felicia fled the scene when Peter wanted to get more serious.) Now regretting her hasty flight, Felicia returns to New York City in search of a missing friend. She of course runs into Peter, and their flirty interactions just bubble with possibilities. "No one's ever tried to French me through the mask before," he tells her, after a life-saving clench. The first half of the six-issue mini just trills with the stuff, and fans were left wondering if Mary Jane was going to return after all, or if this daring beauty was poised to take her place. Then Smith took his long, unscheduled hiatus from the book, and when he came back, he was in a much darker frame of mind. (No wonder, he spent the time off finishing "Jersey Girl," and that would ruin anyone's good mood.) Playtime was over for those crazy kids on the rooftops; now, Smith wanted to deal with issues such as rape and incest. Credit where due, he deals with difficult topics well, with sensitivity and tact. The story is, no denying it, powerful. But damn, Kevin, where was your turn signal? The sudden shift in tone is jarring, to say the least. It feels less like a delay, more like a different writer stepped in to finish the script. (Of course, by the time Smith submitted his final pages, Peter's separation from his wife was over, and his flirty fling with Felicia was no longer appropriate.) The book is gorgeously illustrated by Terry Dodson, who draws with a focus on Felicia that leaves you no doubts he was bottle-fed as a child. Still, for all her eye-popping glory, the pages jump with color and action -- although the book takes on a suitably darker cast as the story shifts into its less light-hearted mode. by Tom Knapp, Rambles.(net) editor
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
This is the FIRST review of this BOOK that actually reviews this BOOK and not the CONTROVERSY!!!,
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This review is from: Spider-Man / Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do (Amazing Spider-Man) (Hardcover)
--This is the collected version of the limited series by director Kevin Smith and artists Terry and Rachel Dodson.
--This dark tale featuring Spider-Man, Black Cat, Daredevil and Night-Crawler and deals with extreme issues like drug overdoses, child molestation, mass murders and rape (both men and women). --Black Cat comes out of retirement to find a missing girlfriend and Spider-Man is looking to find out why one of his students died of a drug overdose. --They team up to find that one of NY most prominent figures may be involved somehow. --They start playing cops which leads them in the middle of a drug war. --There is one sexy female villain in the whole book and she's gone in no time. --Without giving too much more away, half way thru the book, the action stops and its turns into a guide on how to deal with child and adult molestation and rape. --People are revealing their stories of rape survival and not much else is going on. --I don't mean to be cruel, but it took over the second half and it felt weird in a Spider-man book. --Night-Crawler was only available only as a consultant. --It look like it was going somewhere, then Smith gave Marvel anything just to get his check and get Marvel and fans off his back. (Basically, it took 3-4 years to complete this series.) --One good point was Daredevil was in it. --Also, It has DVD style extras in the back. --What actually makes this book fit for purchase (and the 3 stars) is the excellent art work by the Dodsons.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great art-- if you love Dodson:),
By wrmj "wrmj" (VA , USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spider-Man / Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do (Amazing Spider-Man) (Hardcover)
This was a good book-- but suffered because of a huge delay in waiting for the original comics to come out. By huge delay, I mean that, I had no idea what the story was about when the next issue finally hit stores-- and it almost feels like the first half of the story and the last half of the story were from 2 totally different series... kind of mashed together... readers took offense more to the lateness of the book than to any complaints about the story itself, but that's what they will pin it on if asked. Im sure it would have been a non-issue if it had come out on time-- but that was then, this is the trade paper back now, and the reason I love it, is for the art of Terry Dodson... which is the reason I wanted it in the first place. --and it's everything that I was expecting from his work. Just really nice stuff-- along the same lines as Adam Hughes, as far as style. Great stuff--
Side note though-- this story is not for kids-- it ventures off into a drug induced personal violation of it's female lead that becomes the focus of the story... so just for us big kids in a Spiderman : CSI kind of way:) BM
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