Dude. Harsh. I guess I haven't realized that those were all stolen beats -- some of them like Spider-Girl, I haven't read. But I also took it as them maybe mirroring those beats intentionally, as to pay homage/make it their own for their version. I know, I know, it's like they're too similar. But maybe that was them trying to make it "their take" if that makes sense. Idk, I really enjoyed that first issue. Didn't think it was 10/10 but definitely in the minority here for this one..
Yeah, that's the main problem with this comic. It's written by someone who has a limited knowledge and view of the character. Henry or whatever his name is, has probably never read a single issue and instead just googled for info regarding the comics.
The very beginning of the comic suggests that you have a working understanding of the relationship between Peter and MJ because the comic itself sets up nothing. Hey, here's Spider-Man and here's MJ and boom now she's dead. So unless you've got a previous attachment to them, there's nothing else. Which imo is poor writing.
The manner in which MJ is killed is utter nonsense. She's thrown off a bridge for goodness sake. Like seriously? And the only reason it's done this way, again, is to get shock value and also to make the main character, a Male, have sadness. That's called fridging and it's dumb.
Now, I'm not saying you can't approach that type of thing in a Spider-Man comic but it must be earned. For example, look at the Marvel Knights series. That series set up the relationship between Peter and MJ and made you care about them. At some point MJ is tossed off a bridge and Peter saves her. But it's not because her saves her it's because when we the reader arrive at that point, it's earned, we're holding our breath because so is Spider-Man. He understands the weight of what's happening and we see how he's learned from that experience and how it affects him.
Besides this comic being nothing more than a cheap shock value generic grab bag of idiocy, the blow up in Marvel's face countdown and hearing those ever important words "like nothing you've ever seen before" crap, I've written this off.
Ahem. Now that I've vented lol. Thanks for listening...
I'm glad that you are enjoying it. I've no idea how well this is selling but I'm sure there's plenty of people that are digging it.
I feel you, man. I never say "fridged" because Gail Simone coined that whole thing, and I'm not a fan of hers...but this is the one instance where it totally applies. Yeah, agree with how generic it all feels and, honestly, looks. Forgetting the bleh of the title as we know it, don't you think Marvel could have gotten someone AWESOME to draw it? I don't dislike Pichelli, but maybe Campbell, who is a HUGE fan of Abrams, I think, could have been lured in with the prospect of working with him? Instead, we get Pichelli. She's a really good artist, more so for ordinary people stuff, but her superheroes have never done anything for me. However, if this was such a HUGE deal, why not lure a big-time creator in to pencil it, too? I mean, they basically introduced a son, ignored Mayday, ignored Annie, and decided to kill MJ off by means of a lame and new villain.
Sorry, the more I've thought about it, the worse this book has become. Also, when the sales numbers come back, Marvel will think this is the wave of the future.
Lol. Yeah, I had no idea it was Gail's word but...it totally applies.
I could be ok with the art if the story were worth anything. I don't think this is anywhere near Pichelli's best work in fact it might be her worst. I dunno.
But yeah, with every page I was like, this is from this and this is from that. And it seemed to me like he googled different Spider-Man comics and then used certain ideas and then made changes so that it wouldn't look like a copy and paste job, i.e. changing out Mayday for Ben.