What a Tangled Web We Weave | Weekly Comics Pull List

<p>This week&comma; I found my wallet crying for all the twenty issues I got this week&period; Only the strongest survived&comma; and the case of this list four did&comma; and it&&num;8217&semi;d seem that all those weeks of drought were building to this&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s the comic industry lately and three big events in particular are inching closer to their conclusions&period; Regardless of the bumpy roads they took getting here&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m glad to see them ending&period; Black Cat finally gets her claws in Spider-Man and<em> Avengers Undercover<&sol;em> amps up the action and reveals Zemo&&num;8217&semi;s plan&comma; kind of&period; Four great issues&comma; four great stories&period; By all means&comma; don&&num;8217&semi;t miss these&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><strong>Amazing Spider-Man &num; 5&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;08&sol;05083023&sol;asm-5&period;png"><img class&equals;"alignleft wp-image-64880 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;08&sol;05083023&sol;asm-5&period;png" alt&equals;"asm 5" width&equals;"182" height&equals;"277" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When last we left Pete&comma; he was overcome by a spidery lust&period; This issue opens with Felicia Hardy collecting more muscle to fight Spider-man&comma; and this time&comma; she picked The Eel&comma; another electricity based thug&period; Back on a building top Pete and Cindy continue to snog like teenagers&period; Only when his mask is about to come off does Pete regain his senses&period; It seems neither one of them really like each other and pheromones seem to be causing this attraction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Felicia apparently only needed Eel long enough to find a villain meeting&comma; and he&&num;8217&semi;s quickly forgotten once she gets inside&period; She convinces more of Spider-Man&&num;8217&semi;s foes to join her cause&period;  &&num;8220&semi;Squash the Spider&comma; Break the Man&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she tells us&period; Her plan is still vague but&comma; Mr&period; Negative&&num;8217&semi;s on board&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Back at Pete&&num;8217&semi;s apartment&comma; the spider-duo is back to fooling around&&num;8230&semi;on the ceiling this time&&num;8230&semi;Pete&sol;Ock&&num;8217&semi;s ex-girlfriend walks in on them while intending to remind Peter he has an interview with The Fact Channel later on&period; Awkward as that might&&num;8217&semi;ve been&comma; Spider-Man&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;girl problems&&num;8221&semi; have just begun&period; Felicia attacks with all of her new help and only Silk&&num;8217&semi;s there to stop her&period; Of course&comma; Pete comes to her rescue&comma; but after a fierce battle Felicia comes out on top&period; Her plan becomes clear now&colon; Reveal Spider-Man&&num;8217&semi;s identity on live television&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><em>Avengers Undercover &num; 8&colon;<&sol;em><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;08&sol;05083018&sol;avengers-undercover-vol-1-8-textless-100774&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignright wp-image-64881 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;08&sol;05083018&sol;avengers-undercover-vol-1-8-textless-100774-197x300&period;jpg" alt&equals;"avengers-undercover-vol-1-8-textless-100774" width&equals;"197" height&equals;"300" &sol;><&sol;a>These kids in Hopeless&&num;8217&semi; title have been through hell and back&period; Now&quest; We find them again three months later&period; Madame Masque&&num;8217&semi;s been taking Hazmat and Anachronism under her wing&comma; and together&comma; they attack Madripoor &lpar;Marvel&&num;8217&semi;s version of Mos Eisley&&num;8230&semi;a hive of scum and villainy&comma; etc&period;&rpar;&period; Several hundred Hand ninjas later&comma; Madame Masque&&num;8217&semi;s gotten the attention of Sabretooth and Mystique&comma; the current owners of Madripoor&period; She wants them to attract some superheroes to a certain location and raise a little hell&period; This they gladly accept&comma; leaving us all to wonder just what the plan is&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She&comma; however&comma; decides to confide this plan in her protégés&&num;8230&semi;off panel&comma; and we STILL don&&num;8217&semi;t know exactly what&&num;8217&semi;s going on&period; Even after secretly alerting the Avengers to the plan hazmat has managed to keep this plan a secret from us&period; Baron Zemo&comma; of course&comma; knows the heroes are coming and seems pleased&period; Everything&&num;8217&semi;s going according to his plan and we have plots within plots going on with this issue&period; Things just keep getting better and better&comma; and we&&num;8217&semi;ll have to see just what kind of web the Avengers are weaving this time around&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><em>Original Sin &num; 7&colon;<&sol;em><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;08&sol;05083011&sol;original-sin-7&period;png"><img class&equals;"alignleft wp-image-64882 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;08&sol;05083011&sol;original-sin-7&period;png" alt&equals;"original sin 7" width&equals;"182" height&equals;"277" &sol;><&sol;a>Nick Fury&&num;8217&semi;s gone to war with the Marvel Universe&comma; and no&comma; this isn&&num;8217&semi;t a &&num;8220&semi;What-If&quest;&&num;8221&semi; title&period;  Nick&&num;8217&semi;s unfinished business with the Uatu the Watcher and his moon base&comma; and nothing&&num;8217&semi;s going to stand in his way&period; Nick now knows all that the Watcher has known and of course he&&num;8217&semi;s liable to use that vault of knowledge to frightening efficiency in combat and undermining our heroes at every turn&period; On top of all that&comma; he takes Thor&&num;8217&semi;s hammer away with only a whisper&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Iron man&&num;8217&semi;s suit has an override and Fury uses it to send him back to Earth&period;  The assembled heroes stand no chance&period; The final showdown on the moon will be next issue&period;  Other Watchers look on from an unseen position&period; The finale promises to be big&comma; so much so as to say stay tuned&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;08&sol;05082951&sol;wolverine-11-one-month-to-die-cover&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignright wp-image-64885 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;08&sol;05082951&sol;wolverine-11-one-month-to-die-cover-200x300&period;jpg" alt&equals;"wolverine-11-one-month-to-die-cover" width&equals;"200" height&equals;"300" &sol;><&sol;a><strong><em>Wolverine &num; 11 &&num;8220&semi;1 Month to Die&&num;8221&semi;&colon;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p>This issue is less about Wolverine dying and more about him getting affairs in order&period; Old man Logan&&num;8217&semi;s always got time to look out for the weak&comma; and after he saves the hostage Creed is about to kill in the nick of time&comma; he takes the good guys aside and starts causing havoc in Sabretooth&&num;8217&semi;s base&period; Well&comma; that serves mostly to piss off Wolverines toothy enemy&comma; and he decides to take his remaining hostage and run&period; He has Mystique serve as a distraction while he flees to enact his plot in New York&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her plan only sort of works and Wolverine sees through the ruse and all the heroes meet up ready to go get Sabretooth&period; Of course&comma; it all falls apart&comma; and Logan gets separated and trapped in a mall full of ordinary folk&period; What trickery is this&quest; Guess&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ll all find out next issue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;divider&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><em>Mainstream I&&num;8217&semi;d like to share my experiences with the occasional off issue rather than sequential issues all the time&period;  What do you all think&quest;  Well readers&comma; sound off&period;  Let my editors know what you&&num;8217&semi;d like to hear about and never forget to talk about your favorite books on our forums&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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