Recently, to complete the Kingpin Build-a-Figure, I picked up the Red Goblin and Symbiote Spider-Man figures: I got them entirely for the Kingpin parts, but at least I did have a comic they were from! From 2018, Amazing Spider-Man #800, "Go Down Swinging, conclusion" Written by Dan Slott, pencils by Nick Bradshaw, Humberto Ramos, Giusepe Camuncoli, Stuart Immonen, and Marcos Martin; inks by Victor Olazaba, Cam Smith, and Wade von Grawbadger; color art by Edgar Delgado, Java Tartaglia, and Muntsa Vicente.
Very unusually for an 80-pager, this was one story, no back-ups, not 10 8-page stories--seriously, I would have to go a ways back through the tag to find one...oh, maybe this Robin 80-pager. Anyway. This was also wrapping up writer Dan Slott's long tenure on the book, ten years worth. And it was part four of four, pulling out all the stops for a final battle between Norman Osborn with the Carnage symbiote, versus Spidey wearing Venom again. That's not the only support Spidey has: he has other friends there to help him, but most of them are knocked out by the start of this one. We mentioned the Spidey and Goblin figures from this one, but there's another guest-star getting an action figure soon, even if he's not around to enjoy it!
Even without the prior issues, or really reading Amazing regularly for years, this was a strong single issue. If you look it up on the GCD, there was also about a million variant covers, so I don't think it would be too tough to find.
I hear you man, those figures you mentioned as well as that Black Cat and Silver Sable were only bought to complete that Kingpin BAF. Otherwise they'd have been easy passes. Oh well. Not the first time I was forced to buy figures I didn't want for the sake of a BAF. Probably won't be the last.
ReplyDeleteEven though I know that Agent Anti-Venom figure's just a straight repaint I'm still excited to get him.
And that last panel tho. How many years have we all waited to see Jonah finally smile at Spider-Man like that and it wasn't an evil smile?