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Title: Amazing Spider-Man: Coming Home by J. Michael Straczynski, John Romita, Scott Hanna ISBN: 0-7851-0806-8 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: incomplete as a historical piece work; should include others
Comment: "Amazing spiderman: Coming home" is the work of writer/artist J.M. Staczynski & John Romita Jr.. It comprises issue #30-35 from Amazing Spiderman.The story is good, but incomplete and the art is, well, I never like Romita Jr. art because I do not look pleasing to the eyes, which I think should be the bare minimum standard in art.
This book is good but incomplete because they should awarely incorporate issues #36, 37 & 38.These 3 issues are what make a complete storyarc! Not issues# 30-35 as they claimed. The reason is, by including these 3issues it can serves as a stand alone book to understand who is Peter Parker & who is Spider-man based in terms of the setting on modern times.
Issues #30-35 comprises the storyarc vs. the villain Morlun. And issue #35 is the concluding issue. Issue #36 is a stand-alone story that veers away from the usual Spey stories. It essentially a tribute to , and for the Sept. 11 tragedy. Issue #37 is another stand-alone story, focusing on human story as it explore more the person Peter Parker as a teacher and as a human being. Issue# 38 is, I considered one of the best comic issues of Spider-man ever came out.It is about " the conversation" between Pter & his aunt May. That whole issue devoted merely to just ,well talking, about, when his Aunt inadvertently discover his secret I.D. as Spidey.
JMS, in my opinion, is not the best writer for Spider-man comics. I found that out after progressively reading his work on the amazing comic series. HIs stories turn out mudane, centering on humor,adventure-themed stories,& light-hearted( cute & superficial).Somehow, I feel, JMS just did not understand who Peter Parker is &who Spidey is.But this 8 issues I mention above when string together can be considered the definitive spider-man for the modern times.John Romita Jr., another one, I never did liked as an artist.His art is too crude and unpleasing to look at. It is painful to look at his art. He had done better in the past.
In my opinion Stan Lee is the best Spidey writer of all time, bar none. Nobody even come close, it just that bad.As for the artist, I absolutely loves John Romita Sr. artwork in his Amazing run. 2nd is Alex Saviuk,his run in Web of Spider-man is also a classic.
But this early, first run by JMS, I still consider very good, even just the issues comprises this TPB, still it could have been better.Hence, I give a 4 star because of it.
Rating: 5
Summary: is it really worth 5 stars?
Comment: A graphic novel isnt usually a piece of work which deserves the rating of 5 stars, however this graphic novel captures one of Spideyz greatest battles. Considering its exact story, it is a very weak graphic novel. The graphic novel does not revolve around a story but around a enemy. But, the novel is still a great book. If ur asking urself if u should buy it, i suggest it.
Because i live in Brasil, i had to order this novel from the internet. But when it arrived i loved it, it was exactly what i expected it would be, maybe even more. When i had to order it i wasnt completly sure but after i read most of the VERY LONG (and boring) reviews(nothin against the people who wrote it), i decided to make a shorter one. So the basic idea is that the author created a amazing story which, to me, helped inforce the "amazing" of the amazing spider-man.
Rating: 5
Summary: J. Michael Straczynski starts writing the Amazing Spider-Man
Comment: Here is the deal: J. Michael Straczynski took over as the writer of Volume 2 of "The Amazing Spider-Man" with issue #30 and has been effectively "re-inventing" the character (but in a decidedly different way than what you find being done by Brian Michael Bendis in "The Ultimate Spider-Man," which is more a "re-imaginging"). "Coming Home" reprints issues #30-35 of the title, in which Straczynski come up with a striking new interpretation of the Spider-Man mythos. Clearly, then, the point of this trade paperback volume is to help new readers get on board and if not totally up to speed, at least within shouting distance. Taken together with the follow-up volume, "Revelations," these two books can do the trick.
"Coming Home" suggests that there is great significance to the fact that Spider-Man has been fighting villains like Doctor Octopus, the Vulture, the Lizard, the Scorpion, the Rhino, ad infinitum, all these years. Peter Parker meets Ezekiel, one of those mysterious stranger types who brings havoc to a superheroes life, who suggest that Spider-Man's powers might not be quite as unique as he thought. In other words, the idea that a bite from a radioactive spider would give someone the powers of a spider is a bit far fetched and there is another explanation. To drive the point home Spider-Man has to tackle Morlun, a being who feeds on the power of humans with totemistic powers and apparently the only way to survive the encounter is to hide his powers from his new opponent.
Unlike what Alan Moore did with Swamp Thing, the twist on Spider-Man's origin that Straczynski has come up with does not threaten to unravel the entire Spider-Man mythos. At that same time that Peter is being told that Spider-Man may well be the avatar of the Earth's spider population, he also takes a job as a high school science teacher. Meanwhile, there are still those marital problems with Mary Jane and at the end of this book Aunt May finds Peter him bruised, beaten, and bandaged, in a deep sleep, his tattered Spider-Man costume at his feet. This sets the stage for the next trade paper back collection, "Revelations," as Straczynski and artist John Romita, Jr. continue to turn the world of Peter Parker and Spider-Man upside down and inside out.
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Title: The Amazing Spider-Man: Until the Stars Turn Cold by J. Michael Straczynski, John, Jr. Romita, Scott Hanna ISBN: 0785110755 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Amazing Spider-Man: The Life & Death of Spiders by J. Michael Straczynski, John Romita, Scott Hanna ISBN: 0785110976 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: Ultimate Spider-Man: Legacy (Ultimate Spider-Man) by Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Bagley ISBN: 0785109684 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Ultimate Spider-Man: Public Scrutiny by Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Bagley ISBN: 0785110879 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: Ultimate Spider-Man: Venom (Ultimate Spider-Man) by Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Bagley ISBN: 0785110941 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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