“With great power must come great responsibility” feels more ripe for a high school graduation gift card than the backbone of a billion-dollar piece of intellectual property at this point, but the creative powers behind Spider-Man continue to hammer it home. 60 years into his existence, from the funny pages to animated films to the last vestige of the Hollywood blockbuster, Peter Parker still adheres to the ideal that readers and fans have seen across every medium.
The presence of multiple Spider-characters simultaneously on screen and on page has exploded since 2014’s “Spider-Verse
mini will undoubtedly go down as the best solo title ever for El Tigre Vic, the Slasher, the Butcher—though, admittedly, the bar for that metric has always been pretty darn low*. But probably, this five-issue story will prove one of the most successful minis of the past several years, as well. As we’ve come to expect in 
title that started last summer, in the wake of both 
and 
and 
, both complete, state-of-the-art 12-issue runs, each a highwater benchmark for 21st-century superhero comics, in a wildly innovative collaboration with artists ACO and Riley Rossmo. And his recent work I’ve not yet checked out has seen much praise, like the 2020 indie OGN with Phillip Kennedy Johnson, 
, and his ongoing Image series, Commanders in Crisis. Clearly, Mr. Orlando’s just revving his engines and there’s much more to come.)