Spider-Man #5

[cyberghostface]

 

Mary Jane is still alive but she's been turned into some sort of cyborg monster. Ben and Peter are able to return her to normal.





Peter pushes them off the bridge just before it explodes.

Comments

[zachbeacon]

Our long national nightmare is over.

[tcampbell1000]

:-D

[silverhammerman]

Cribbing both the ending of Spider-Man: Life Story and the setup of the MCU movies, there really isn't an original thought in these dudes heads, is there? This is coming after a whole series which borrowed quite heavily from both May Parker' Spider-Girl and Miles Morales, but swapped out the main characters for a boring white boy with daddy issues.

At least it's over, and all things considered, inoffensive. If Marvel had thrown a ton of weight behind this it would be worse, but ultimately this is just a kind of poorly written vanity project whose greatest sin is wasting Sara Pichelli's talents for a year and a half. Good riddance, and I can't wait to see this kid eat shit the next time Marvel does a Spider-Verse event.

[cyberghostface]

I didn't mind the material with Ben and Faye. Had they just removed the gruesome and ridiculous cyborg monster plotline and did a coming of age story with a villain like Kingpin it would have been better imo.

[silverhammerman]

Yeah, the core character stuff seems fine, even if turning Peter Parker into an absentee father doesn't align with my own understanding of the character. The cyborg stuff and "Cadaverous" is what pushes this over the line into being actively poorly written rather than just forgettable fluff. It's the element that feels the most "Hollywood" in its utter lack of inventiveness or connection to anything rooted in the Spider-Man mythology/themes.

Still, now that it's wrapped and I'm (mostly) over my annoyance about nepotism, I'm willing to write it off as bad but inoffensive. No one is gonna be talking about this in five years or even five months.

[buttz]

Please don't compare this garbage to Spider-Man: Life Story.

[zachbeacon]

Speaking of this story's relationship to superior (no pun intended) Spider-Man content, remember when Marvel released a minimalist tease for a "huge" Spider-Man announcement and it turned out to be this?

Remember how disappointed everyone was because the fandom had convinced themselves that it was going to be a continuation of the Rami-Verse?

Anywho, I'm going to take the casting rumors about the next live action Spider-Man movie with a grain of salt.

[silverhammerman]

I still can't quite figure out what Marvel was thinking with that tease, since ultimately the Abrams Spidey comic wasn't really that big of an announcement. It was an out of continuity miniseries by a superstar director who was already kind of out of fashion in a lot of nerd communities, so it was never going to set the world on fire. Putting that teaser out just set people up to be disappointed by the reveal.

I can't even get started on those casting rumors, and I don't know what to think. Mostly they just make me glad that these days my relationship with the MCU as a whole is one of swooping in when something gets good reviews and not caring the rest of the time.

[zachbeacon]

I feel like Sony has no idea what it's doing with Spider-Man. Sure individual creators do and that's how we end up with masterpieces like Spectacular, Spider-Verse, and Spider-Man 2 but the high-ups don't really care about animation and Spider-Man 3 was micromanaged to death. The less said about the Amazing movies the better. Despite having a great actor as Peter Parker, the last two live action movies have been WAY to differential to Disney by making Peter Tony's sidekick. The alleged plans for the next one just seem like the live action people using the plot of the last cartoon to throw all the old live action stuff in a blender.

Meanwhile I assume Morbius will follow Venom into "so bad it's good" territory.

Anyway RE Abrams...even if Marvel actually believed people would want this, it's just a mini. This is like when Marvel got people excited about Whedon taking over Runaways while neglecting to say it was just a six issue fill in.

I'm tempted to make a joke about the lateness on both comics but it isn't like they were Kevin Smith.

[beyondthefringe]

Oh joy.
No happily ever after for Peter.
Sigh.

[thanekos]

Mechanically, unremarkably competent - and makes you think " .. what got turned down so that this could fit on the slate? "

[scorntx]

"A new Spider-Girl series? ... Eh, throw it in the shredder."