Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man - Make the Pain Stop
June 8, 2006 | 5 Comments
Never in my life have I felt so passionately unhappy about a comic. In general even when they are bad they still offer something. Since the conclusion of The Other series, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has become increasingly worse. Peter David is an embarrassment to Marvel, and is greatly tarnishing the Spider-Man name. I was able to tolerate #5 - “Web Log”, even though it seemed out of order in the continuity and certainly took concentration away from Spider-Man. The two issue story “Masks” was uninteresting and I thought I’d be glad to start the next series. This is when things go from bad to gouge my eyes out, burn the comic, and pray the clone saga has not re-emerged bad. Yes, I said it, Peter David’s stories are worse than the mid-90s clone saga.
I thought maybe I was being over dramatic, until I read IGN Comics’ review:
I didn’t think I would find myself literally wanting to burn a comic book, yet I feel as if this issue should be made extinct. A futuristic tale trying its best to be a mixture of “Days of Future Past” and “Future Imperfect” is a poorly written and offensive piece of dreck. Bucky came back and man did that work brilliantly. Jason Todd came back and that worked decently enough. The return of Uncle Ben has been one of the biggest mistakes at Marvel in Joe Quesada’s tenure. Will it greatly disturb the comic-book universe? Thankfully, it will probably not. There’s more important things happening (you know, like Civil War), to allow this story to make much of a dent. That’s the only blessing for this abysmal tale. Marvel, you owe me $3 and 10 minutes of my life!
Rating: Burn It.
Marvel, please cancel this series. It is too late to recover from these horrendous stories to ever make anyone think this title is worth it. If I didn’t feel as though I needed the issues to keep my collection complete, I would have already cancelled my subscription. Then immediately fire Peter David. Seriously, walk down the hall, pick up a phone, send an email, do whatever it takes to start the process of making that man never responsible for the fates of another Marvel character. Spider-Man is Marvel’s banner character and David has literally pissed all over him. If this isn’t a fire-able offense, I don’t know what is.
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