Dark Web: Dusk 1 kicks off Marvel's next crossover event in thrilling style as Spider-Man and the X-Men find themselves confronting Hell in New York City. Read our full review here:
Superhero publishers often find themselves chasing their hits with schedules clogged by year round events and so many series creating sequels for stories dated by their decade, so it's easy for readers to grow cynical. Dark Web #1 introduces an event that offers itself as a sequel to the beloved X-Men crossover of the 1980s:"Inferno.
Dark Web models itself after"Inferno" in that it presents multiple threads that weave together to deliver the larger story. That includes a set of three key antagonists and the entire island of Manhattan transforming into a literal, rather than metaphorical, tier of Hell. Readers are welcome to follow whichever plots and heroes most interest them before they converge in the conclusion.
These ties are easy to make because the event itself is steeped in years of character work across various titles, including writer Zeb Wells' consistently outstanding contributions in both The Amazing Spider-Man and Hellions. There are threads of many ongoing series from across Marvel Comics' publishing line, which makes the event feel natural in its introduction for anyone with a passing knowledge of current continuity.
Nobody would think to call Adam Kubert's incredible skill as a draftsman a surprise, but his versatility throughout the pages of Dark Web #1 proves to be the story's secret weapon. In the introductory sequence he shifts from a claustrophobic nightmare of encroaching panels to grandiose splashes of camp-infused supervillains in Limbo; they are radically different approaches and depictions of similar elements that Kubert shifts between with seeming ease.
2022 is the year that proved Marvel Comics to be the dominant publisher of quality superhero events. In the wake of the masterful Judgment Day, it provides a crossover modeled upon one of its all-time best and delivers a first issue that suggests it is fully capable of setting the bar for a modern"Inferno.
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