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Review: The Best of Spider-Man Vol. 5
The Best of Spider-Man Vol. 5
Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Penciled by Mike Deodato, Jr.
Inked by Joe Pimentel with Tom Palmer
Published by Marvel Comics. $29.99 USD
Man, thirty dollars for this. I could've gotten a really comfortable pair of shorts or a few pairs of boxers. Something to treat my balls nicely, instead of subjecting them to the dull pain they received from this book. Far from the "best of" anything, this reads like JMS has said all he has to say about Spider-Man and is too busy working on upcoming series to really give this his all anymore.
As is customary, this hardcover collects a couple of arcs of Amazing Spider-Man. The first introduces an old classmate of Peter Parker's who was an even bigger loser. "Charlie" pops up in Pete's life again, a struggling scientist, and Pete's guilt over letting Charlies replace him as school punching bag leads him to sign onto a research project with Charlie that Pete's Avengers boss Tony Stark is funding. When things aren't working fast enough, Charlie cuts corners and ends up doused with whatever he was working on, turning into some gold-plated guy very reminiscent of old Spider-Man nemesis the Molten Man. I thought it was funny that, just like in the '60s Molten Man story drawn by Ditko, gold-face Charlie skulks around in a fucking fedora at night! Who can even find one? How old and/or out of touch is Straczynski? Where's the baseball cap? It's a so-so story, not helped at all by the Mark Brooks-drawn flashbacks, which unwittingly create a nostalgia for the days when the book was drawn by Todd MacFarlane. At least he had style, which Deodato does not.
The second arc finds a revitalized Hydra and a not-so-bright plan to take over the United States. There's not much to it, and JMS pads it out with guest shots from Captain America and Iron Man, as well as Hydra-created copies of them and some other Avengers. To be fair to Straczynski, Spider-Man's joining the Avengers wasn't his idea, and having to address thie change in the status quo in the regular series has diverted him from his strengths. But hey, rise to the challenge. This isn't good.
Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Penciled by Mike Deodato, Jr.
Inked by Joe Pimentel with Tom Palmer
Published by Marvel Comics. $29.99 USD
Man, thirty dollars for this. I could've gotten a really comfortable pair of shorts or a few pairs of boxers. Something to treat my balls nicely, instead of subjecting them to the dull pain they received from this book. Far from the "best of" anything, this reads like JMS has said all he has to say about Spider-Man and is too busy working on upcoming series to really give this his all anymore.
As is customary, this hardcover collects a couple of arcs of Amazing Spider-Man. The first introduces an old classmate of Peter Parker's who was an even bigger loser. "Charlie" pops up in Pete's life again, a struggling scientist, and Pete's guilt over letting Charlies replace him as school punching bag leads him to sign onto a research project with Charlie that Pete's Avengers boss Tony Stark is funding. When things aren't working fast enough, Charlie cuts corners and ends up doused with whatever he was working on, turning into some gold-plated guy very reminiscent of old Spider-Man nemesis the Molten Man. I thought it was funny that, just like in the '60s Molten Man story drawn by Ditko, gold-face Charlie skulks around in a fucking fedora at night! Who can even find one? How old and/or out of touch is Straczynski? Where's the baseball cap? It's a so-so story, not helped at all by the Mark Brooks-drawn flashbacks, which unwittingly create a nostalgia for the days when the book was drawn by Todd MacFarlane. At least he had style, which Deodato does not.
The second arc finds a revitalized Hydra and a not-so-bright plan to take over the United States. There's not much to it, and JMS pads it out with guest shots from Captain America and Iron Man, as well as Hydra-created copies of them and some other Avengers. To be fair to Straczynski, Spider-Man's joining the Avengers wasn't his idea, and having to address thie change in the status quo in the regular series has diverted him from his strengths. But hey, rise to the challenge. This isn't good.
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1 Comments:
You know, that "Skin Deep" arc? One of the best stories in JMS' run.
Which says a lot, doesn't it?
God, Deodato blows.
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