War of the Realms: Superior Spider-Man #8: The War Within

A solid issue that takes a minor step backwards by playing into Otto’s arrogance but rights itself by the end to be in line with his slowly developing moral center. I liked Reed and Otto talking as colleagues at points and the inclusion of the Strikeforce was clever. At no point would I call these two issues required reading for the War of the Realms but if you like this series and/or the event this tie in is extremely readable and might also be a nice fix for people missing the recently cancelled West Coast Avengers series.

The art continues to be fine but still really feels like it delves a little too hard into classic spidey poses for some reason. I also, in total agreement with my Comic Watch colleague JA Fludd, want one book where Ben Grimm is drawn well, somewhere. This Thing looks AWFUL, Marvel really needs to do a “how to draw The Thing” workshop for their artists or something.