Zeb Wells get Peter’s voice down pat and understands it well and that was a breath of fresh air after some of the more recent comics and movies. Granted that isn’t a stirring endorsement but I genuinely enjoyed this first volume. This wasn’t nearly as bad as everyone else says it is. I have the feeling that Parker has to be reciting the earnest lyrics to the Yolanda Adams song Still I Rise before donning his signature red & blue every damn day. However - yet amazingly (wink-wink) - our title character comes swinging through with flying colors to save the day. Spidey jumps in to prevent the bloodshed of innocent folks and - in some very visceral scenes set on an abandoned subway tunnel line - is captured and then brutally tortured / beaten by Tombstone for this interference. Trouble quickly develops with a brewing violent street war - spearheaded by the quietly vicious Tombstone - between New York City's rival organized crime factions. (Also, may we take a brief moment and recognize that Marvel's flagship character just celebrated his 60th birthday several months ago? Now THAT is some staying power!) As our story opens, Peter Parker's - and, by obvious association, Spider-Man's - life is in shambles due to recent past events. Can I offer you some 'thwip-thwip' before I leave?' - the scrappy Spider-Man, snaring the super-villainess White Rabbit with his webbingĬolor me cautiously and curiously optimistic about this new and aggressively physical-seeming The Amazing Spider-Man series.

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