Adam Graham's Blog: Christians and Superheroes - Posts Tagged "2000s"

Spider-Man: Spider-Hunt by Todd Dezago

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This is during an era when Norman Osborn was alive, owned the Daily Bugle and was making Peter Parker's life miserable while pretending that he wasn't the original Green Goblin. In the course of
this, he frames Spidey and puts a five million dollar bounty on Spidey's head. Spidey has to fight off all comers and when Norman's grandson (and Harry Osborn's son) goes missing, Peter has to find some way to help him.

I thought this was actually really good. The situation is used to press Spidey to his limits and really this highlights the nature of his character. At the same time, all the characters who show up hunting for him and the rewards are mostly pretty fun. While this book does suffer at times from being a 1990s comic, with some of the artistic excesses of that era, this was a fun adventure that crossed over between Spidey's books.



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Spider-Man: The Next Chapter Vol. 2 by Howard Mackie

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This volume feels like a book I should like. There's Mysterio's scheme and Flash Thompson finding himself in a world where he's superhero, the return of Venom and the Sinister Six and a good mystery to boot.

Yet, there's a certain joylessness about the whole affair that gets wearying and drags the book down particularly in the way that Mary Jane is written and her reaction to Peter's lie to her about Spider-man (a contrived problem meant to create drama) .

Thus you've got a more meh feel than the plot elements really would indicate. This isn't bad, but it's just not a fun read.



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