SPIDER-MAN: TROUBLE ON THE HORIZON
PREMIERE HARDCOVER
Peter
Parker meets with his Horizon Labs colleague Grady Scraps who has created a
doorway into tomorrow. The doorway shows the person what will happen 24 hours
from today. As Peter enters the door he and Grady discovers New York
Both
Spider-Man and Silver Sable stops the Flag Smasher as Peter discovers the
source of the explosion. Both Grady and Peter shut down the doorway before it
will rip a hole into time and destroy Manhattan
The Point
One issue was a great introduction to the Lizard before he appears in upcoming Amazing Spider-Man film.
SERIES HIGHLIGHTS
- Horizon
Labs loses communications with Col. Jameson who is working on Apogee 1
- Johnny
Storm and Spider-Man use the FF ship to reach the Apogee 1 Space Station
- Both
the Human Torch and Spider-Man encounter Octobots but they were saved by Col.
Jameson
- Doctor
Octopus commences the destruction of the Apogee’s Space Station
- The
Octobots have taken over the crew and turned them into zombies
- Both
the FF ship and Col. Jameson’s shuttle are destroyed
- The
station’s air supply is cut off to render the Octo-zombies unconscious
- Doctor
Octopus hurls the space station to Earth with Spider-Man and the crew on board
- Spider-Man
and the crew are onboard the Horizon Space Sensory Deprivation Chamber
- The
Human Torch absorbs the heat from the atmosphere as the chamber descends
- The
crew land safely back to Earth as the Sinister Six plans for their last master
plan
POINT ONE HIGHLIGHTS
- Peter
and Uatu discover the vampire Michael Morbius is the one residing in Lab 6
-
Spider-Man and Uatu defeat Morbius as he retreats to the sewers to continue his
experiments
- Morbius
tracks down his test subject for his mimetic plasma test: Doctor Connors
This
hardcover collects
Amazing
Spider-Man #678–681
Amazing
Spider-Man #679.1
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED – 5 OUT OF 5
