Spider-Man/Gen¹³ #1

Gen¹³ #Spider-Man

by Peter David, Stuart Immonen (Illustrator)

Spider-Man meets Gen 13 in this squarebound intercompany crossover. Will they be friends or foes?

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

aka David Peters

Peter Allen David, often abbreviated PAD, was an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films, and video games. His notable comic book work includes an award-winning 12-year run on The Incredible Hulk, as well as runs on Aquaman, Young Justice, SpyBoy, Supergirl, Fallen Angel, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, Captain Marvel, and X-Factor.
His Star Trek work included comic books and novels such as the New Frontier book series. His other novels included film adaptations, media tie-ins, and original works, such as the Apropos of Nothing and Knight Life series. His television work includes series such as Babylon 5, Young Justice, Ben 10: Alien Force and Nickelodeon's Space Cases, which he co-created with Bill Mumy.
David often jokingly described his occupation as "Writer of Stuff", and he was noted for his prolific writing, characterized by its mingling of real-world issues with humor and references to popular culture, as well as elements of metafiction and self-reference.
David earned multiple awards for his work, including a 1992 Eisner Award, a 1993 Wizard Fan Award, a 1996 Haxtur Award, a 2007 Julie Award and a 2011 GLAAD Media Award.

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 2 out of 5]

this is a good Gen-13 story that Peter David squeezed Spider-man into. The deeply emotional ending fight scene comes of silly because Spider-Man would have solved it on his own.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decided to reread this after 20 years when I was going through some old comics - Immonen is one of the greatest comics artists of the last few decades, so even though this isn't one of his best books, it's still well drawn. David has a nice handle on the main characters, with several nice dialogue exchanges. The plot's thin, which makes some sense given the restricted page count. The villain Glider's story is nicely done, but I can't help thinking the parental theme could tie to the heroes in some way. It seemed odd to spend so much page time on her story, effective as it was, at the expense of the heroes fans ostensibly wanted to see teaming up, unless her story/theme illuminated theirs in some way.

[Rick Hunter · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just found this in a box of comics that had been in storage for years. It was probably at least 10 years ago the last time I read this, so it was like reading it again for the first time. I'm not a big fan of multi company crossovers because usually they are published by just one of the companies & use their own writers and artists that don't really know or understand the other companies characters. That doesn't seem to be the case here though. Peter David seemed like he had a good grasp of all of the Gen 13 characters even though he was a Marvel writer. I really like David's work. He's not the best writer in comics, but he always produces a fun, enjoyable read. His writing gets 4 1/2 stars.
Artist Stuart Immonen has some good work, but it isn't great. When this book came out in the 1990's, Marvel had a bunch of 2nd tier artists because all of the great artists had left to form Image or to go work for the guys that formed Image. His art gets 3 1/2 stars. I just wished this had been drawn by one of the Image guys.

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is too short to call it a graphic novel... but it's a bit longer than the average one-shot, and it has a stiff cardboard cover, so I'm comfortable with putting it here on the list. Besides, it's a good book and well-worth a look. Many of the inter-company crossovers seem to have been done simply so they could say that they did (and to have a product to fill shelf-space), but this one is quite good. It features the original, real Marvel Spider-Man and the original, real Image members of Gen-13. It's very well written by Peter David, quite nicely illustrated, and is altogether most enjoyable. It's amusing to see Peter Parker in the role of the old established guy who has the younger generation bailing him out, and Gen-13 was one of the best young teams of the time. Plus, Black Lung Disease: is that a great name for a band or what? An excellent read... I wish it had been a bit longer!

[Variaciones Enrojo]

Especial Spiderman/Gen13.