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Down These Mean Streets
A brand-new designer drug arrives in New York City with the force of a hurricane: Triple X, a potentially lethal combination of ecstasy and gamma radiation that is literally turning users from the shadowy, dank alleys to the glittering, raucous party circuit into living, rampaging nightmares. For high school science teacher Peter Parker, Triple X's onslaught on some of his...more
Mass Market Paperbound, 268 pages
Published
August 30th 2005
by Pocket Star Books
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Perhaps it's just the shadowing but when I picked up my copy of 'Spider-Man: Down These Mean Streets' at the local bookstore I began to wonder whether Spidey had taken to carrying a weapon...albeit in his pants? Perhaps he was just overly pleased to be on the cover? I just don't know. What I do know, disturbing Spider-crotch aside, is that I thought it was a great piece of artwork and better portrayed the prose novel appeal to a more mature audience. Compare it, for instance, to Jim Butcher's 'S...more
This was a fine Spiderman adventure. One way in which novels work well with the superhero genre is that they're not limited to so few words as are comics, and they aren't forced to be non-stop action as the films usually are. In this story not only do we see Spidey fighting villians, but we also see Peter Parker portrayed as a good guy in his own right, trying to deal with his job and marriage and such "mundane" concerns.
This book is about a gang in New York City, giving out drugs laced with gamma rays to teenagers. After they take it, they get super powers with a time limit on it. When it reaches the limit, the kid would crash and his/her body would start to malfunction. It's up to Spiderman to stop the distribution of the harmful drugs and find who's behind it.
Always a welcome novelization to the inner-workings of the Spider-man psyche. This book isn't spectacular, but it never leaves the reader feeling like the story drags its feet.
Awesome, simply awesome. So awesome, in fact, that it makes Ghost Rider look like Aunt May.
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