Enjoyed this take. Can see something bigger building

Visually stunning, solid story.World: The art is fantastic, it’s beautiful and stylish. I’ve always loved this art and the Lizard looks fantastic because of it. I will say though that the colours are a bit bland and all on the soft side for some reason but this is also the style of the art. The world building is solid, it builds upon the Gauntlet and is character based so that’s a good thing. Going into Conners and his story with his son as the base for the world building is good.Story: A fun si...

I love the phsycology and relationchip between connors, the lizard and his son (Billy Connors) and what destiny´s been waiting for them all ever since The Lizard Shed the skin of Dr Curt Connors..

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Update: years later I still love this story. The first issue was really the prologue, and it's still weirdly paced because it's by multiple writers. However, the main story is STILL so good. The transformation of the lizard is so wonderful. I actually like this even more upon re-reading it. Check out my full video below to get a more in-depth look at this book/arc - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-36YJ...The first issue was a little meh but the rest were stunning. I'm not much into dark grim ta...

This storyline, which featured a fallen Lizard, was wonderfully scripted, and illustrated by Messrs. Wells and Bachalo, respectively. It particularly fit Bachalo talents, with Wells writing to suit to his artist.However, when it came to enjoyment for this reader, I found this tale too dark for my taste. It felt that now that the Spider-Man office no longer had easy access to Venom (who was with the Thunderbolts during this time), their hero needed another cannibalistic villain.

Book Info: This collection contains Amazing Spider-Man issues #629-633 and Web of Spider-Man issue #6.ABSOLUTE RATING: {3/5 stars}STANDARDIZED RATING: <3/5 stars>In the The Gauntlet, Volume 5, Kurt Connors – after keeping his inner "lizard brain" in check long enough to find employment as a scientist working with reptiles again – finally loses control and lets the monster back out. It's uncommonly dark for a Spider-Man story, and that's one of the best things about it. But perhaps best o...

Volume 5 of The Gauntlet ends on a big high with this stunning, tragic and beautifully drawn Lizard story. I've always been a fan of the Lizard but this time things take a darker turn and we see an evolution as he manages to achieve something he's been trying to do for along time. Zeb Wells manages to make an already tragic figure even more so, adding depth and further conflict to Connors and his alter-ego.Dark and violent the story is expertly illustrated by some startling, chaotic and gorgeous...

Chris Bachalo's art makes it 4.5 stars. His version of the Lizard is super cool.

A delightful little tale, if your idea of a good time is a father gruesomely devouring his own child on the page. This story gets praise from readers who fantasize about being edgelords, but if you take away the shock value it's....mediocre at best. And what is up with writer Zeb Wells's obsession with killing fictional children...?

This was darker and more ‘serious’ I guess, compare to the other runs in the Gauntlet.

The last book in the Gauntlet series and probably the darkest.The gauntlet continues with the Lizard. Conners is looking for a job in order to keep is son who currently residing in foster care.As the story progresses we find out that Curt was actually in control all those times he transformed but now the Lizard no longer wants to be pushed to the back of Curt's mind and has decides to take over. You can already imagine whats gonna happen once the Lizard is back in control.Even though is was a p

Most Curt Conners tend to incorporate a fairly predictable redemption element, so it's nice to see a Lizard story where he goes entirely off the rails. The chief emotional beats are done well, and I enjoy the new concept behind how the Lizard's powers operate, but Peter's presence in the story feels more incidental than it could have been. In fact, pretty much every diversion into ongoing plot threads coincides with a clear drop in quality, which only serves to exacerbate feelings of underdevelo...

Shed is one of those rare stories that's made up of 1 part awesomely tragic, 1 part tragically awesome, and 1 part awesomely cool. It's a story with a recipe whose ingredients are tough to put together, let alone obtain, but the team behind this excellent piece of storytelling nailed it and created a delectable treat for Spidey fans. (I'm hungry, ok?) That's the short version of this review. The longer, in-depth version is just below but I wanted to give a warning to those about to read it. It's...

Wowzers, this was a pretty disturbing book. At first, I thought it would be "just another Lizard story" if you get my drift, which tends to be a lot of back and forth with Spider-Man hunting down the Lizard as he typically goes after his son Billy. But in line with the larger "gauntlet" arc that has the theme of powering up different Spider-Main villains, this book twists this direction by making a Lizard that no longer has Curt Connors somewhat holding him back. The implications are rather dist...

Rounding up, but this was one of the strongest stories from The Gauntlet event by a decent margin.

Who the hell is Zeb Wells? He came out of left field... for me at least, with this really great Spiderman tale. This might as well be the most viscerally violent Spiderman story I've read. I mean there have been killings in other stories, but it's somehow always distant, kinda faceless. In Lizard it's straight up reptilian brain mayhem. Curt Conners is losing control to the lizard inside. The Lizard is ready to shed, to shrug off its old mammalian psyche and embrace the world in all its cold-blo...

The definitive spider-man story to me (because it was one of my first 😳). Beautiful art accompanying a story about spidey getting fucked beyond belief. Sucks that the lizard just kinda existed in a void for like 8 years after this until he got reset to basically the status quo again.

Wells'/Bachalo's preview of the Lizard story from issue 629? Cool and unnerving.Van Lente's pseudo-origin of Lizard and Man-Thing? Very eerie and suited to the Man-Thing's weird swamp-mind. Wells' take on Lizard's origins is positively creepy and Penalta's art really complements the creep factor.Fantastic and surreal story of the Lizard's ascent to supremacy over the primates around him, and a sad step down the ladder for Dr. Curt Connors. The way Wells, Bachalo, Rios & the rest create a zany at...

The Gauntlet comes to a close, with the focus this time on Curt Connors, aka The Lizard.As is typical of The Gauntlet, this works as both a reintroduction and a curious mix-up of an established villain from Spider-Man's classic rogues gallery. With The Lizard, there is a focus on the very familiar Marvel trope of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - though with a cold-blooded twist that makes this dissection very curious indeed.In essence, it treats "The Lizard" as a creature lying dormant inside not only