Wow. People are loving this book. It helped that Marvel sent out advance reading copies for reviews.
Me, I loved the artwork. Very well done.
I just read the finals for issue #2. It just gets better.
PAD
Wow. People are loving this book. It helped that Marvel sent out advance reading copies for reviews.
Me, I loved the artwork. Very well done.
I just read the finals for issue #2. It just gets better.
PAD
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Peter,
I just finished this issue and enjoyed Greg Land’s art. I’ve loved his style since he drew Sojourn for CrossGen. The appearance of the twin towers immediately brought me back in time.
Although Mysterio has never been my favourite Spidey villain, his struggle with that lady’s death made him an interesting character.
He almost went straight! And then our “hero” shows up to pound him. I can’t wait to see where this story goes.
Sincerely,
Tom Pearce.
I also enjoyed the issue. I especially enjoyed the reference to Power Pack, which was absolutely one of my favorite books in its first thirty-five issues or so. Of course, I must mention that if this story is set soon after PPSSM 91, then no one would know who Power Pack is, as PP 1 didn’t come out for another two months or so, and Spider-Man didn’t meet them for another five issues after that! I know Marvel continuity wasn’t a straight line (and still isn’t), but given that Spidey was back in the red-and-blues in PP 6, it seems like the continuity doesn’t match up very well.
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One wonders if there was a children’s program on TV in the MU at the time featuring musical super-hero children in a kind of cross between Kids Incorporated, Jem, and PJ Masks. If that show were called “Power Pack” and popular enough to have penetrated the cultural imagination, it would provide an explanation as to why two grown men would have any idea who a group of child super-heroes were called Power Pack.
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Am I into No-Prize territory yet?
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Will Aunt May recognize Felicia as the young woman who “accidentally” climbed in through the boarding house window looking for a costume party only a few days before in PPSSM 91? To be honest, I can’t figure out the canonical state of Aunt May’s awareness of Peter’s secret at this point given the number of retcons that have happened over the decades, but it would be interesting to see May and Felicia get to know each other over the course of the next few issues and see how that affects their opinions of each other. (I’m particularly interested in this given how vehemently Felicia seemed to avoid the Peter side of Spidey’s life at the time and how she immediately dismissed Aunt May as a “drag” and a “fogey” at that meeting. Of course, she also called May “feisty” in the same thought balloon, so there’s some real potential for discovery and conflict between the two of them!)
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Ultimately, I enjoyed the characterizations of Peter, Quentin, Felicia, and May even if they seem to be more modern versions of the characters than what I think we’d have seen in ’84. Being able to explore a more nuanced view of these characters than what was being presented in those days will be interesting.
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I also agree, PAD, that the art in this book is pretty darned good. I haven’t always loved Mr. Land’s work in the past, but it worked well for me here.
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Thanks for making the Spider-Man books I look forward to the most!
I had already planned on picking this up, but now I find myself getting impatient to get my hands on it.
This was a fun issue to read. I enjoyed the trip back to the past and exploring Pete’s time with the symbiote suit. Will any events from this series show up in any current Spidey series?