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@ Popdose: Amazing Spider-Man Gauntlet V5- Lizard (really should be "Shed")

Over at Popdose this week, I wrote a bit about the latest Amazing Spider-Man collection:

Over the years, it seems like the classic Spider-Man villains, those created by Stan Lee, Steve Dikto and John Romita, have suffered at the hands of later creators because no one has really known what to do with them. After the wild popularity and offshoots of Venom, the older villains have been rehashed, remade and eventually transformed into jokes as creators scrambled to figure out how to make villains like the Lizard, a humanlike lizard who wears a lab coat as his costume, threatening. Usually they failed as none of the villains could be as memorable as the original Green Goblin or Kraven or any of the original members of the Sinister Six. With The Gauntlet cycle of stories, these original villains have been brought back and tinkered with just enough to remind us why they were great once upon a time. But with “Shed,” Wells and Bachalo succeed in remaking the Lizard into a more reptilian monster who can do more than just wear a lab coat. The Lizard is no long a scientist trapped in a mutated body. The scientist is gone and all that remains is the beast.

You can read the full review here.