Thursday, May 23, 2013

Superior Spider-Man: Troubled Mind TPB [2013] by Dan Slott


SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN: TROUBLED MIND TRADE PAPERBACK
Mayor Jonah Jameson gets pranked by Screwball and Jester and asks Spider-Man to locate them. The Avengers are curious on whether Spider-Man has a place on their team. Doc Ock meets up with Anna Maria Marconi from Physics class. Spider-Man finds the location of Screwball and Jester and beats them to a pulp which draws the attention of the Avengers who want him off the team.

Cardiac is stealing one of Doc Ock’s inventions to help his patients which were confiscated but Spider-Man stops him. Later Spider-Man is called to the Avengers Tower to have a physical however he refuses leading to a confrontation with the Avengers. He battles the Avengers and loses. The Avengers discover he is not a Skull however Spider-Man discovers an anomaly in his brain patterns. Meanwhile Carlie Cooper is inspecting that Spider-Man is not Peter Parker.

SERIES HIGHLIGHTS
- Spider-Man wants the neurolitic scanner from Cardiac to examine himself
- Spider-Man discovers it is his fault the patients are dying so he helps
- Spider-Man borrows the neurolitic scanner from Cardiac to stop Peter
- Doc Ock removes Peter from his mind using the neurolitic scanner
- The Green Goblin names himself king of the underworld 

This trade paperback collects
Superior Spider-Man (2013) #6-10

RECOMMENDED – 4 OUT OF 5