Spider-Man

• Title: The Superior Spider-Man #1
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• Writer: Christos Gage
• Artist: Mike Hawthorne

Dressed in a variation of Ben Reilly‘s Spider-Man costume, Doctor Octopus has resumed his role as the “Superior” Spider-Man in San Francisco. The comic opens with Spidey Doc fighting Stilt Man of all people before resuming his day job as a teacher at Horizon University.

The first issue of The Superior Spider-Man #1 offers a short history of Doc Ock while also setting the groundwork for the new series and explaining how Otto ended up a new body living under the identity of Elliot Tolliver. Aside from taking on super-villains and teaching, the villain turned hero will also have to face his past mistakes when Anna Maria Marconi recognizes a familiar swagger underneath a new face.

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• Title: The Amazing Spider-Man #1
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• Writer: Nick Spencer
• Artist: Ryan Ottley

Although I like the character, the are a couple of reasons I haven’t been a regular reader on one of his titles for quite some time. The character’s convoluted, and often retconned, history (which has been patched so often you can’t see what it was originally supposed to look like) and writers who focus on making Peter Parker‘s life a struggle without capturing the joy of being Spider-Man, have too often made Spidey comics a chore to read.

The first issue of the newly relaunched The Amazing Spider-Man, to no surprise, throws Peter under the bus once more. Not only is he accused of plagiarism, loses his job at The Daily Planet, living with a super-villain, and earns the disapproval of Aunt May (a character who should never have been brought back), but he also has to deal with the distrust of other heroes once New York City’s Mayor starts fucking with him in the press.

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