Spider-Man Visionaries: Roger Stern

Spider-Man Visionaries

by Roger Stern, Steve Leialoha, Marv Wolfman

Roger Stern sets his stamp on Spider-Man and his supporting cast with a collection of costumed criminals, would-be alien abductors, and gangsters both local and imported Featuring new enemies, old enemies and the fall of a hero A new Prowler unmasked and an old secret revealed Guest-starring the White Tiger and the Smuggler, later Atlas of the Thunderbolts Collects Amazing Spider-Man #206 and Spectacular Spider-Man #43-52, #54.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Spider Man, Marvel, Action

256 pages, Paperback

First published May 9, 2007

About the author

Roger Stern is an American comic book author and novelist.

Reviews

[James DeSantis]

Reading this as part of the Roger Stern Omnibus on Spider-man and...well it's a product of its time.

One thing that is kind of nice is all these stories feel individual save one or two with two part storylines. There's a villain, a lady, who keeps popping back up in almost every issue but for the most part can read a issue and get a complete story.

But most of these are for sure old school comic, saturday morning cartoon stories. None really stuck with me, save for a few funny moments with Spider-man and his villains. Most of these villains felt lackluster, and not very scary. Spider-man's regular life was decent, with cute romance with Deb, but overall nothing to write home about.

Roger Stern seems to have the chopping blocks for Spider-man himself, and he writes Peter solid, but the plotting has a lot to be desired. However, we'll see how the rest of his run measures up to this one.

[Michael]

In the post-Stan Lee era of Spider-Man, Roger Stern probably defines how I see this character. Aside from the slightly heavy exposition (and the preponderous of footnotes - every reference seems to refer back to a previous story!), these stories age very, very well. The Deb Whitman relationship is a total inversion of the "Peter can't get a girl" standard, which Stern acknowledged in the interview reprinted at the back of the book. Deb Whitman is the female Peter Parker.

The stories have good twists, and the characters are convincing. The action is good, and I bought everything that happened at the time.

[G. Edweird Cheese]

A really cool look back at some classic Spiderman comics written by Roger Stern.

[Frank Taranto]

An interesting and OK collection of mostly fairly early Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider Man Stories

[coolwhip54]

yay