Yeesh! A bloody, gruesome story with a dark and depressing tone. And worst of all Spidey came across here as flat, one-dimensional, and humorless. The art was stiff and overly muddy and dark too. Glad I got this one from the library and didn't pay for it.

The Gauntlet has all led up to this. The Grim Hunt. Villains returning and heroes ending there is quite alot going on within the 4 main issues. One or two twists that spices things up for future storylines.

Well, I managed to clear a room of four women talking about this. Twice. Two DIFFERENT sets of women. So that's a sign regarding how fanboyish I just might be and how much I enjoyed this one. I give this book eight women out (of the room) of eight, I guess.Are we going here?Why don't women like comics?This is being general, cutting a wide swath. I recognize that. I know there are many lady comic book fans, many of whom are a lot more rabid than I am. What I'm saying here is based 100% on persona...

I've read Kraven's Last Hunt and now this, and I've decided something: Kraven is a lot more interesting to me in theory than in actuality. This had some cool Spider-Man stuff, but Kraven and his family just didn't do much for me.

THE WRITER IS VERY SMART FOR WITE THIS.

So I kind of got an understanding of what Alan Moore and Grant Morrison to some extent are talking about when they say that the comic book medium is killing itself off by regurgitating old ideas with this story. I don't want to get too spoiler heavy, though I'll probably mark this review as a spoiler filled review to be on the safe side, but wow, this is easily my least favorite story-arc of the Webhead era of Spider-Man. Characters acting out of, well, character? Check. Inconsistent art due to

Losing interest in this series but I'll continue and get to Slotts run

Takes two flavours of Spider-Man I don’t like - Dark and Mystical - and makes a pretty engaging story out of ‘em. Probably helped by the build-up towards this story over the last few trades. Little Spider-Family event comic, kind of like a grim version of Into the Spiderverse (with admittedly less exciting characters). It turns out rushed in the end, but all in all one of the better stories of the pre-Slott run.

Rounding up from 3.5. A pretty good finale to the fairly mixed bag that was The Gauntlet.

This is grim. Dour, depressing, gloomy; everything a Spiderman story is usually not. Where’s the Quip-head? Here you have the family of third-rate villain Kraven trying to raise him from the dead. I say, why bother? Against them, you have most of the Spider-powered super heroes/family. Sorry, it’s spelled s-p-y-d-e-r. And Spiderman’s evil clone (GAH!!!!), Kaine, figures into this mess. I know, like a clone in a Spiderman story is a bad thing.*To make it worse you have murky art that you don’t qu...

It's a serious Spider-Man story.You know, the kind without any jokes. Blasphemy, I say! Ok, it's not the worst thing I've read, but it just doesn't have a very Spidey feel to it.Part of the reason for that is because Spider-Man isn't really in this very much. It's mostly a story about Kraven, and by extension, his wacky family. Even Kaine (one of Peter's manymanymany clones) gets more page time than Parker.In fact, if you're in the mood for a Kaine and Kraven story...well, then you've found yo...

3 1/2 stars.I've been a big Spider-Man fan ever since I was a kid. He was my all-time favorite super-hero, until I ran across the senior citizen version of Dominic Fortune, so I'm always up for a good Spider-Man story/series. The "Spider-Man: The Gauntlet" series tells the stories about Spider-Man's fights with old and new foes, orchestrated by the Kravinoff family in an attempt to soften Spidey up for "The Grim Hunt" (Compiled in a separate volume).Vol. 4 of the series, Juggernaut, is comprised...

Van Lente keeps coming through with a cool angle on Kraven's origins. Casey does a passable job with a backup of Spidey and MJ - but Mahfood does a crazy job of art-ing like a funhouse mirror array. (Let's not even talk about the DeFalco/Spider-Girl crap.)Surprise: Joe Kelly can write a straight, somber, moody, almost creepy story - and doesn't fall back on his comedic talents to ruin the effect. Impressive art that fully supports the seriousness of the story. Story goes where I didn't expect (e...

Reprints Amazing Spider-Man (2) #634-637, Amazing Spider-Man: Extra! #3, and Web of Spider-Man (2) #7 (May 2009-September 2010). Kraven the Hunter took Spider-Man to his darkest moment. When he defeated and buried Spider-Man alive, Kraven himself was pushed to the edge and ended his own life. Now, Kraven’s children and his wife intend to bring Kraven back from the dead and start the Grim Hunt. Spider-Man has been pushed to the limits by his enemies and now he is primed for the hunt. It is going

After so much build-up and gathering so many different Spider-Man villains, we ended up with this? I have to admit the sheer length of the larger storyline built up far too much anticipation for the core part of this arc leaving a rather disappointing story in its wake. It could have been a lot better and maybe more focused but instead, we just continued to dip into the spider mythos without committing too deeply to anything with the Kraven family being weird and with only incidental appearances...

For all the build up...meh. World: The art is okay, it is very of it's times and it is what it is. The world building here is okay, as it pulls on a lot of the magic spider stuff from before which I enjoyed. I liked the call back to Kraven and the pieces that were used. I do wish the scope of the Spiders could be bigger but oh well. Story: It was okay, nothing really special. For the build up this was rather ho hum and nothing all that special. Sure there were spiders a plenty but u felt it was

Really torn for a rating on this....at times I loved it, and other times the flashback scenes seemed perplexing and bothered me. So I guess I will give this a solid 3 stars. Worth at least picking it up and checking it out.

Despite being initially dubious, I've been quietly pleased with the recent Gauntlet storyline. If you haven't read the preceding 5 volumes, don't be too concerned as they really don't add much. Though billed as a collective web leading to this event, the Kravinoff's never really had enough involvement throughout to count and Spidey is always fighting villains and encountering personal strife, so no different to normal really. Still, they were good stories and acted to build a level of excitement...

"Spyder! Spyder! Burning BrightIn The Forests Of The Night,What Immortal Hand Or Eye Could Frame Thy Fearful Symmetry?"Okay, before someone sues me, I know the original poem starts with Tyger, but this was the one used in the comic. I have to admit, this story was satisfactory. Very, very satisfactory. The art is good. The artist could have tried drawing a better Julia, but otherwise it blends in with the tone of the story, which is very dark. This story arc is riddled with violence, blood and (...

Grim Hunt is the sequel to the classic Spider-Man story Kraven's Last Hunt from the 1980s by J.M. DeMatteis. While not as good, the story is a dark, thrilling conclusion to the Gauntlet storyline that dominated the Amazing Spider-Man title for a number of months. This edition also includes an untold Kraven story by DeMatteis and a number of short filler pages that help to understand the background of everyone's favorite crazy Marvel family, the Kravinoffs. What's most refreshing about Grim Hunt