I hear that we haven’t been told what he’s done until issue 25 or something and maybe not even then. On a side note, can Marvel just let Peter and MJ get together again? For gods sake these books haven’t been as good since One More Day, you fucks.Īnyways. It’s five issues of Aunt May is done with him, Mary Jane is sick of him calling her like a creep, Peter stole from the Fantastic Four and he isn’t welcome in the Baxter building, he ignores and disregards all his friends seemingly out of nowhere and MJ is a mom now (and Peter isn’t the dad). It opens with him with his costume torn, laying in a crater as he screams in agony. I think that’s my main issue with this book. But this Peter has done some shit and we aren’t told what it is. This is a Peter who’s very angry at the moment and I love an angry Spider-Man, after all that’s how he was in the Ditko era. Zeb Wells get Peter’s voice down pat and understands it well and that was a breath of fresh air after some of the more recent comics and movies.

Granted that isn’t a stirring endorsement but I genuinely enjoyed this first volume. This wasn’t nearly as bad as everyone else says it is. I have the feeling that Parker has to be reciting the earnest lyrics to the Yolanda Adams song Still I Rise before donning his signature red & blue every damn day.

However - yet amazingly (wink-wink) - our title character comes swinging through with flying colors to save the day. Spidey jumps in to prevent the bloodshed of innocent folks and - in some very visceral scenes set on an abandoned subway tunnel line - is captured and then brutally tortured / beaten by Tombstone for this interference. Trouble quickly develops with a brewing violent street war - spearheaded by the quietly vicious Tombstone - between New York City's rival organized crime factions. (Also, may we take a brief moment and recognize that Marvel's flagship character just celebrated his 60th birthday several months ago? Now THAT is some staying power!) As our story opens, Peter Parker's - and, by obvious association, Spider-Man's - life is in shambles due to recent past events. Can I offer you some 'thwip-thwip' before I leave?' - the scrappy Spider-Man, snaring the super-villainess White Rabbit with his webbingĬolor me cautiously and curiously optimistic about this new and aggressively physical-seeming The Amazing Spider-Man series.

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