This Week’s Comics

It’s extremely funny that Amazing Spider-Man tried to pull a “that love has changed” now regarding how Peter Parker feels about Mary Jane Watson. In a fill-in two-parter, no less!
I still haven’t forgiven Barry Allen for the New 52, sorry. (My bet remains that Iris gets better sooner rather than later, though.)

It continues to be nice to read about married Peter and MJ.
I really appreciate how the current Fantastic Four volume has so far managed to tell a complete story in each issue. Don’t see that too often these days. (I don’t assume this will hold forever, and I wouldn’t want it to—but I very much prefer it to the usual six-issue arc format one tends to see.)
Timeline note: it’s at least five months after the previous Fantastic Four volume.

See, Bruce Wayne can cook.
Tim Drake and Bernard Dowd finally got to kiss on-panel!
The Flash featured a Bart Allen / Wallace West team-up, and I have to say that watching Wallace deal with Bart’s, ah, impulsive style of superheroing was quite entertaining.
I’m also kind of amused that Mr. Terrific showed up in both of my DC pulls this week.
Continuity note: Amazing Spider-Man #913 takes place after the denouement of Dark Web but before the epilogue, as it’s still winter. Per the recap page, it also takes place after the Mary Jane & Black Cat miniseries that’s currently running.
And speaking of the recap page, I have to say that confirming that MJ and Paul are actually married is a hell of a thing to just casually drop there!

The epilogue of Dark Web is set in “Spring,” which marks roughly a three-month timeskip from the main events of the story. Factor in Amazing Spider-Man #908 (which also began with “Spring”) and it’s been at least a year since “Beyond.” (Although I could see the next issues of ASM picking up before the epilogue, particularly with the next two issues being by a guest creative team.)
From the lettercol:
I’ve only been reading comics for about a year and a half, so I haven’t encountered too many crossovers yet.
Oh you sweet summer child.
Things I missed by not reading the other tie-ins: Eddie Brock turning into Bedlam.
The Flash special was mostly side-stories, which is honestly a fine use of a tie-in issue, even if I’m always amused when none of the characters on the cover appear in the issue. It was nice to see Avery Ho again.
I’m not hugely into DC Comics’ potential futures, seeing as we’ll never actually get them, but I do rather like the one we’ve seen in Adams’s run—part of it, I think, is that the Flash legacy extending well beyond Wally West has been a well-established thing for a very long time.