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Spider-Man: Breakout #1-5
Spider-Man: Breakout
Collects Spider-Man: Breakout #1-5.
The NEW AVENGERS riot hits here! The jailbreak of the century causes more havoc in the Marvel U as a flood of the most dangerous villains on the planet pour into the streets of New York City! And caught between two warring cliques of escaped convicts is everyone's favorite web-slinger!
The NEW AVENGERS riot hits here! The jailbreak of the century causes more havoc in the Marvel U as a flood of the most dangerous villains on the planet pour into the streets of New York City! And caught between two warring cliques of escaped convicts is everyone's favorite web-slinger!
120 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2005
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Tony Bedard
788 books24 followersAntony J. L. Bedard is an American writer and editor who has worked in the comic book industry from the early 1990s through the present. He is best known for his work at CrossGen Comics, where he was under exclusive contract, and for his run writing Marvel Comics X-Men spin-off Exiles.
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February 8, 2022
This was a weird read.
Its not exactly a Spider-man comic and ties into the breakout story of Bendis Avengers and yeah its mostly two gangs going against each other and after a woman who supposedly duped them.
So it picks with the breakout and then we have Crossfire's gang and on the other hand, the U-Foes and both believe that the other has duped them during a previous escape and diverted the fund and they blame it on Rozalyn Backus, a correctional officer and we have Spidey track her down and what happens is endless exposition of where she has been and all that and why she did what she did and when things come closer to her home and her nobel deed, Spidey is stuck between trying to fight U-Foes and Crossfire gang and we get her history with Crossfire but what should have been an epic fight becomes a quick ending with Avengers arriving at the scene and things getting over.
There is no fight and the whole thing gets resolved rather so quickly and well the U-Foes disappear without any trace and there is no action with Spidey with either of the villain groups and trying to fight them protecting her and well this sounds much better than the story we received and a cheap ending with endless exposition so yeah skip on this one, its boring and bland and kinda disappointing and also the art is meh and overall not worth it but maybe some might like it in the end with Spider-man learning to be a part of team and asking for help while in such situations.
Its not exactly a Spider-man comic and ties into the breakout story of Bendis Avengers and yeah its mostly two gangs going against each other and after a woman who supposedly duped them.
So it picks with the breakout and then we have Crossfire's gang and on the other hand, the U-Foes and both believe that the other has duped them during a previous escape and diverted the fund and they blame it on Rozalyn Backus, a correctional officer and we have Spidey track her down and what happens is endless exposition of where she has been and all that and why she did what she did and when things come closer to her home and her nobel deed, Spidey is stuck between trying to fight U-Foes and Crossfire gang and we get her history with Crossfire but what should have been an epic fight becomes a quick ending with Avengers arriving at the scene and things getting over.
There is no fight and the whole thing gets resolved rather so quickly and well the U-Foes disappear without any trace and there is no action with Spidey with either of the villain groups and trying to fight them protecting her and well this sounds much better than the story we received and a cheap ending with endless exposition so yeah skip on this one, its boring and bland and kinda disappointing and also the art is meh and overall not worth it but maybe some might like it in the end with Spider-man learning to be a part of team and asking for help while in such situations.
February 9, 2023
It was okay. Interesting self contained story written in a time when Marvel was trying to be darker, grittier, edgier.
There was one thing that irked me… There was a part where Spidey was being mind controlled to hold a gun to his head. Spidey’s phone started to ring (crotch phone), the guy controlling his mind (or was it the other guy that was controlling his mind? There were four mind control guys on one of the two super villain teams) asked who was on the phone, and Spidey lied… so was he not mind controlled by the right guy? Anyway, kinda dumb.
There was one thing that irked me… There was a part where Spidey was being mind controlled to hold a gun to his head. Spidey’s phone started to ring (crotch phone), the guy controlling his mind (or was it the other guy that was controlling his mind? There were four mind control guys on one of the two super villain teams) asked who was on the phone, and Spidey lied… so was he not mind controlled by the right guy? Anyway, kinda dumb.
July 12, 2022
I feel guilty this is my first actual Spider-Man comic. It is completely uninteresting. It is full of talking and characters I don't care about. If you're reading New Avengers you can skip this one.
January 4, 2021
A simply okay Spider-Man spinoff book taking place during one of the character’s best eras.
Breakout follows Spider-Man’s attempt to stop a group of supercriminals called the U-Foes, and another villain named Crossfire, as they make a breakout from one of the Marvel universe’s super-prisons and are all gunning for one person, named Rozalyn. It’s a lot of talking and general exposition, and there is very little in the way of superhero fisticuffs or any important developments for Peter as a character.
In short, only read this if you’re huge on Spider-Man and have run out of other things to read with the character.
Breakout follows Spider-Man’s attempt to stop a group of supercriminals called the U-Foes, and another villain named Crossfire, as they make a breakout from one of the Marvel universe’s super-prisons and are all gunning for one person, named Rozalyn. It’s a lot of talking and general exposition, and there is very little in the way of superhero fisticuffs or any important developments for Peter as a character.
In short, only read this if you’re huge on Spider-Man and have run out of other things to read with the character.
January 9, 2021
perfectly exemplifies the dismal mid 2000s era of Marvel Comics in all the worst ways. everything looks brown and washed out with very little dynamism in blocking or composition, and the story doesn't begin to make up for what the art lacks. at every turn, this book goes the most mean-spirited, misogynistic, and out of character route possible. when spider-man does appear in this story, tearing the focus away from the uninteresting and unnecessarily violent antics of its antagonists, he never offers the often depressing situation any superheroic levity; even he can't free this book from its own crude muddiness.
February 17, 2024
Hardly a Spider-Man book and not very interesting.
January 13, 2013
I found this recently in Wellington. It had bypassed me originally and I thought it was out of print so I picked it up to maintain the collection. It's not bad, just similar to many of the peripheral Spidey stories in that, really it could be about any hero. Peter gets his arm broken (which is then almost completely ignored) and gets embroiled in a pre-existing turf war between two rival prison gangs. I had never heard of the U-foes before though they were quite entertaining. The other group of manipulators provided a darker counter (I enjoyed Mandrill's shenanigans) and there's a slight mystery and someone stuck in the middle. Spidey mainly talks a lot and listens to a lot of exposition, there's a brief fight and then it ends. It really didn't add much aside from highlighting Pete's unease at working in a team. For fans.
October 7, 2012
Aventura intrascendente de Spiderman, spin-off de la primera saga de Los Nuevos Vengadores (y la fuga de villanos). Se supone que debe explorar en los sentimientos del trepamuros ahora que se ha convertido en un jugador de equipo, aunque no va demasiado para allá...
May 6, 2010
Strong start, but gets progressively weaker with masses of exposition explanation taking over the whole story.
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