This sequence may be playing for laughs, but throughout this volume, Zdarsky understands what makes Spider-Man tick, both in humour and heart. Peter responds by saying it's an integral part of who he is. Opening the first issue of Chip Zdarsky's Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, the eponymous hero explains his origin to Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, who has heard it for the millionth time and asks why he's telling it again. Even based on recent works like the cinematic Homecoming didn't need to explain this backstory whilst introducing us a new incarnation of everyone's favourite wall-crawler. Having been around for fifty-five years through comics and other media, we ought to know the origin story of how Peter Parker got bitten by a radioactive spider, which gained him superpowers and how 'with great power comes great responsibility'. Yer true blue pal (usually, um, conditionally),īottom Line : I’m still giving this an “okay” three stars, because Zdarsky can be amusing at times (and let’s face it, life can be painfully short on laughs sometimes), but this version of the Web Head just seems off-center. I still love you, Tiger, but in all likely-hood, I’ll shy away from this run. Spencer, in his Spider-book makes better use of the dynamic between the two, but kudos for the “My Dinner with Andre” joke.

It was better when you were a burr, way up J. Just don’t go into an apoplectic rage like you did that time in the mind-wiped reveal from Civil War. It just that Zdarsky wrote it in such a wince-inducing inorganic eye-rolling way. Jonah Jameson.Īs webbed ideas, this isn’t a horrible one (I mean, it doesn’t involve clones. Dan Slott was running out of gas with his excellent run on the character, but this book doesn’t even compare well with that.Īnd what the hell were you thinking with changing the fulcrum of your relationship with long-time Spider-Man hater, J. It’s not difficult to see (based on this volume) that this version of your character pales in comparison to the one in Nick Spencer’s companion book: The Amazing Spider-Man. Maybe you can change your moniker to “Your run-at-the-mouth, pain-in-the-ass, way-too-friendly, neighborhood, Spider-Man”. He was a president when everything on the internet was still in black and white). I’d somehow paraphrase the “vaccinated with a phonograph needle” line from the Marx Brothers, but that joke is only relevant if you voted for FDR (Kids, that’s Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I like quippy, but it seems you’ve been bitten by a long-winded, annoying, mildly amusing, radioactive spider.

Sorry, but in Chip Zdarsky’s take on your character, I just wish you would shut the up.

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