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22 voters
Spider-Man & The Human Torch
by
Dan Slott ,
Ty Templeton
It's five old-school adventures featuring your favorite webheaded hero and his pal, the walking matchstick Follow them through the years - from high school to present day, from the Negative Zone to the Coffee Bean, from Dorrie Evans to Mary Jane Watson-Parker. It's all here Collects Spider-Man/Human Torch #1-5.
Hardcover, 128 pages
Published
August 19th 2009
by Marvel
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This is a fun story focusing on the friendship between Spidey and the Human Torch. Dan Slott shows his love for 70's Marvel comics by including the Spider-Mobile and also a nod toward those Hostess Fruit Pie ads that were in the back of every Marvel comic for years. Each of the five stories contained within portrays a different period in Spidey and the Human Torch's lives, often with hilarious dialogue. There are references to the Clone Saga, the Human Torch's marriage to a Skrull, and other sel...more
Man, I loved this!
It's the story of a friendship. Ever since the early days of Marvel Comics, Spider-Man (Peter Parker) and the Human Torch (Johnny Storm) have been friends. These five chapters tell how that friendship matured from an uneasy rivalry to best buddies status. It's also an exploration of past eras in the Marvel Universe. It plunks you back into 1964, 1969, 1974, 1983, and finishes in 2005 (the date this series was published). We get to see why villain Paste Pot Pete changed his name...more
It's the story of a friendship. Ever since the early days of Marvel Comics, Spider-Man (Peter Parker) and the Human Torch (Johnny Storm) have been friends. These five chapters tell how that friendship matured from an uneasy rivalry to best buddies status. It's also an exploration of past eras in the Marvel Universe. It plunks you back into 1964, 1969, 1974, 1983, and finishes in 2005 (the date this series was published). We get to see why villain Paste Pot Pete changed his name...more
This trade collects the entire five issue series Spider-Man/Human Torch.
Slott and Templeton give us five adventures of the titular duo spanning a decade of Marvel Universe time and several eras of comics in real time. Spidey and the Torch are usually at odds and always on each others nerves. The stories here are light fare, but a lot of fun and are a nice homage to past stories, capturing an appropriate feel for each tale and making reference to major past events. Key supporting characters for b...more
Slott and Templeton give us five adventures of the titular duo spanning a decade of Marvel Universe time and several eras of comics in real time. Spidey and the Torch are usually at odds and always on each others nerves. The stories here are light fare, but a lot of fun and are a nice homage to past stories, capturing an appropriate feel for each tale and making reference to major past events. Key supporting characters for b...more
A fun series. Spider-Man and the Human Torch have always had a bit of rivalry over the years, although they are always there to help each other out when necessary. This series explores the friendship between the two over the years, with each chapter being a self-contained story and taking place in a different part of the characters' histories. Slott has a great handle on the characters, and injects quite a bit of humor. One of the funniest scenes happens in the first chapter, when Spider-Man enc...more
I'm still not sure how I felt about this. I enjoyed reading it and it was a great homage to these characters past history BUT what I couldn't stop feeling was why not just collect up their actual past history? This felt kind of like Nostalgia run amok and forcing a re-write of how these artists remembered these characters in the past and not how it actually was.
An absolutely adorable, entertaining collection of Spiderman & Human Torch adventures, that show their friendship over time.
4.5 stars
4.5 stars
***star only review***
Feb 21, 2013
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Jan 25, 2013
Andrew
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