As you’d expect, this is an overstuffed issue with a bunch of different stories.
Story #1: Last Legs by Dan Slott and John Romita, Jr. Doc Ock is dying from all the blows to the head he’s taken over the years.
I can’t remember how many times I’ve wondered how the hell Octavius can take a punch from a guy with the proportionate strength of a spider.
Meanwhile, Daredevil and Spider-Man have a big fight with D-list villains and then close down the Bar With No Name (they don’t have a liquor license) and Dan Slott explains why Daredevil can’t sense Spider-Man’s secret identity: Something is blocking his hypersenses.
Aunt May is getting married (again) to J. Jonah Jameson’s dad, and Doctor Octopus decides to crash it, since he’s dying and all. And also because it wouldn’t be a Marvel wedding if there wasn’t a bunch of chaos. Ock unleashes a bunch of tiny “octobots” on the city, requiring the New Avengers and the Fantastic Four to get involved.
Ock is foiled but gets away–this story really is just reintroducing him for the Brand New Day era and establishing that he’s dying. After all that…
The wedding happens.
And guess who catches the bouquet?
That’s the main story. After that, Stan Lee and Marcos Martin offer a story about Spider-Man seeing a shrink who…
…Is Stan Lee.
Then Mark Waid and Colleen Doran give us a glimpse into May and Ben’s marriage, pre-Spider-Man; Bob Gale and Mario Alberti do a little vignette; Marc Guggenheim and Mitch Bretweiser give us May visiting Ben’s grave; Zeb Wells and Derec Donovan show us that the Spider Mobile is in the Smithsonian (and the docent is the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons).
Oh, and the book closes with Joe Kelly and Max Fiumara doing a Madame Web story that anticipates the next year’s worth of stories. And there’s some “humorous” pages thrown in along the way, including a reference to a Batman/Spider-Man team-up.
In all, a fine issue #600 with an appropriate level of sentimentality, moving the ongoing stories along, and fun little tributes to the history of the character.
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