Thursday, January 19, 2012

Spider-Man: Flying Blind Premiere HC [2012] by Dan Slott

SPIDER-MAN: FLYING BLIND PREMIERE HARDCOVER
Following the events of Spider-Island, non-New Yorkers are arriving into the city to get a taste of spider-powers as anti-spider patrol units search the city for any leftover bugs. Vultures are committing high-rise crimes above the city as Spider-Man stumbles on one of their crime scenes and takes on NYPD’s anti-spider patrol. Meanwhile the Horizon employee Tiberius Stone gives the Kingpin Wilson Fisk plans for spider-sense jammers to be placed in Shadowland to stop Spider-Man.

As Spider-Man gets his spider-sense back and recovering from his breakup with Carlie Cooper, Peter Parker needs a friend on the force and Carlie needs Spider-Man. Both decide to call it a truce and work together on the high-rise burglaries as the Vultures are secretly led by Adrian Toomes the original Vulture.

This collection also features the return of the Sinister Six as they work toward the upcoming Ends of the Earth arc and the villains from World War Hulks the Intelligencia. Guest writer Mark Waid brings the Spider-Man and Daredevil team up which crosses over with his title as the duo prepare for his upcoming Omega Effect with the Punisher.

SERIES HIGHLIGHTS
- Spider-Man and Carlie break into the morgue at NYPD headquarters
- Spider-Man and Carlie discover the bodies have been stamped by the same night club
- The Vultures attempt a mid-air heist of a rare coin collection with a helicopter
- Spider-Man uses his magnetic webbing to stop the Vultures
- Carlie contacts Mary Jane to discuss her relationship with Peter Parker
- The Winter Guard takes on the Intelligencia however they activate their Zero Cannon
- The Sinister Six attacks the headquarters of the Intelligencia at the North Pole
- The Chameleon was disguised as Klaw as Doctor Octopus takes on M.O.D.O.K.
- The Intelligencia are defeated from taking the world over in 2011
- The Sinister Six prepares as they plan to take over the world in 2012

- Felicia Hardy is framed for the theft at Horizon and is under arrest
- Spider-Man and Daredevil discover who framed the Black Cat
- Black Cat is framed to steal the Omegadrive back from Matt Murdock
- Foggy informs Matt his father Jack Murdock body has been stolen

This hardcover collects
Amazing Spider-Man #674 - #677
Daredevil #8

RECOMMENDED – 4 OUT OF 5