Weekly Marvel Review: September 04, 2024 (Week 36)

Top Developments and Milestones. Thor banishes Loki from Asgard; Spider-Boy reunites with his mother; Eddie Brock absorbs all of his variant personalities. Spider-Man breaks 400 points. Exceptional X-Men launches.

Book of the Week – Scarlet Witch #4 (Review score: 40 Points; 6 Characters). Scarlet Witch, her siblings, and her nemesis, save the town of Lotkill from the Griever at the End of All Things.

Hero of the Week – Spider-Man/Peter Parker (Review score: 18 Points/4 Appearances; 4.5 Pts/App). Peter Parker outscores Miles Morales by one point and takes his second Hero of the Week in a row, his fifth in the previous 10 weeks and 11th overall for the year, beats out Miles by one point. In his four Appearances, he scores two Team-Ups and one Defeats Antagonist.

Antagonist of the Week – Griever at the End of All Things (Review score: 7 Points/1 Appearance; 7.0 Pts/App). In the end, no one is left to grieve the Griever at the End of All Things. She earns her first Antagonist of the Week in her defeat.

New Characters. Hellifino, Spider-Boy’s humanimal frienemy; Nightmask, the humanoid built by Ex Nihilo; Toxin (Bren Waters), one of several young children currently bonded to a symbiote.

Top Characters (by review score). Spider-Man/Peter Parker (18); Spider-Man/Miles Morales (17); Scarlet Witch (13); Jackpot (11); Griever at the End of All Things, Polaris, Quicksilver, Spider-Boy, Venom/Eddie Brock (7); Colleen Wing, Hexfinder, Kitty Pryde, Shift, Thor (6)

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Key: TU – Team-Up; LT – Lead Team; SC – Save Civilian; CD – Character Development; DA – Defeat Antagonist.

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Daredevil #13 (6)
Daredevil (EN) – Swing
Daredevil (MM) – Sense, Swing
Antagonist(s)
Kingpin
Exceptional X-Men #1 (8)
Emma Frost – Telepathy
Kitty Pryde – Intangibility, Intangibility Defensive, Melee, Vehicle, SC
Get Fury #5 (8)
Nick Fury (MAX) – Melee, DA (Major General Truong Van Tranh)
Punisher (MAX) – Melee, Vehicle, Weapon, DA (Prison guard)
Immortal Thor #15 (17)
Athena – Flight
Hercules – Melee
Lady Sif – Sense
Thor – Elements, Flight, Lightning, Teleport, CD (Banishes Loki from Asgard)
Zeus
Antagonist(s)
Enchantress
Loki – CD (Banished from Asgard)
Minotaur
Incredible Hulk #16 (1)
Hulk
Kid Venom #2 (4)
Kid Venom – Durability, Melee, DA (Oni)
Miles Morales: Spider-Man #24 (18)
Black Panther
Misty Knight
Spider-Man (MM) – Blade, Energy, Energy Offensive, Melee, Rage, Swing, Tech, Whip
Starling – Flight, Melee, Weapon
Antagonist(s)
Vulture – Explosive, Flight
Moon Knight Annual #1 (24)
Colleen Wing – Blade, Creature, Melee, TU (Moon Knight), DA (Nightmare)
Moon Knight – Personality, Weapon, Whip, TU (Colleen Wing)
Nick Fury, Jr. – Influence
Nighthawk
Phil Coulson – Energy Offensive, Flight, Teleport, DA (Nighthawk)
Antagonist(s)
Nightmare – Melee, Reality, Teleport
Star
Scarlet Witch #4 (40)
Polaris – Flight, Magnetics, Magnetics Offensive, Weapon, TU (Quicksilver), DA (Endlings)
Quicksilver – Melee, Speed, Speed Offensive, Strength, TU (Polaris), DA (Griever at the End of All Things)
Scarlet Witch – Creature, Durability, Flight, Intangibility, Magic, Magic Defensive, Magic Offensive, Melee, Telepathy, Teleport, TU (Hexfinder), DA (Griever at the End of All Things)
Antagonist(s)
Griever at the End of All Things – Blade, Energy, Energy Defensive, Energy Offensive, Melee, Weapon
Hexfinder – Magic Offensive, Projectile, Teleport, TU (Scarlet Witch), DA (Endlings)
Spectacular Spider-Men #7 (34)
Nightmask
Shift – Appendage, Grow, Melee, TU (Vermin), DA (K.N.A.I.V.E.)
Spider-Man (MM) – Energy Offensive, Ensnare, Influence, Melee, Tech, TU (Spider-Man), DA (K.N.A.I.V.E.)
Spider-Man (PP) – Ensnare, Melee, Tech, TU (Spider-Man), DA (K.N.A.I.V.E.)
Antagonist(s)
Arcade
Hammerhead – Melee, DA (Tombstone bot)
Jackal – Influence
Mentallo
Turk Barrett
Vermin – Creature, Melee, TU (Shift), DA (Daredevil bot)
Spider-Boy #11 (10)
Spider-Boy – Crawl, Sense, Strength, Vehicle, SC, CD (Reunites with his mother)
Spider-Man (PP)
Antagonist(s)
Bullseye
Hellifino
Ultimates #4 (6)
Doom (RR-Ultimate) – Tech
Iron Lad (Ultimate)
Antagonist(s)
Maker, The – Influence, Tech
Venom War #2 (25)
Misery – Creature
Red Goblin
Sleeper
Spider-Man (PP) – Creature, Melee, Stretch, Whip
Toxin (BW)
Venom (DB) – Creature, LT
Venom (EB) – Absorb, Creature, Melee, Personality, Whip, CD (Merges with his variant personalities)
Antagonist(s)
Carnage (Symbiote) – Morph
Meridius – Morph, Toxin
Venom War: Spider-Man #2 (18)
Jackpot – Creature, Flight, Ice, Intangibility, Light, Sense, Sonics, Strength, Tech, TU (Spider-Man)
Spider-Man (PP) – Creature, Swing, Whip, TU (Jackpot), SC
Antagonist(s)
Hobgoblin (RK)


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