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It feels like this book is moving really fast and really slow at the same time, somehow. Each issue jumps forward a month, since we're doing the whole 'fast track till the Maker returns' thing that they're doing in Ultimates, so things happen but it feels like the aftermath takes a while to turn up. And then we get the Sinister Six and the Black Cat, neither of which get much to do, so we're covering a lot of ground and yet also kinda standing still?

It's all still compelling, don't get me wrong. There are two issues here that are basically just people talking, Ben & Jonah while they try to track down the truth about Stane/Stark and the Christmas issue at the end of the volume that's mostly just Mary Jane and her sister, and these are easily the standouts. It's just an odd pacing thing that I don't think happened in the previous volume, or didn't feel as prevalent.

Artwork's still fab though - Checchetto's always a joy, and David Messina's fill-ins feel like the old Kevin Maguire talking heads with various expressions issues.

Still great, but a niggling feeling of oddness creeping in.