Why can’t Hollywood and the people from Marvel who deal with them realize that this is the type of movie I want to see made about Spider-Man and not, well, that thing that’s coming out soon that looks like a teenage romcom?
Actually, if this becomes the new Spider-Man movie, I will gladly pay to see it… when it comes to the $1.50 Theater. Though this collects The Amazing Spider-Man issues #648 to 651, it is a new beginning in a way and it even admits it on the back. Hey, I’ll read most any story about my favorite web crawler once as long as I can understand it.
So Spider-Man is friends with Black Cat, who wants in the Avengers, and this kind of starts with the end of an Avengers story. Then Spider-Man has to get his act together because he’s starting a new job where he can make big money and also use it to help his Spidey “hobby”.
As Peter Parker begins his new job, something is stolen by the Kingpin and so Spidey has Black Cat help him get it back. At this point in time, it also needs to be mentioned that one Goblin had been killed by another Goblin, which was just an amazing twist to this story. Ultimately, Spider-Man has his mix of action, drama and comedy while at the end he manages to blurt out the line that he’s finally hit the big time (like the title of the book, haha)
What sticks out most about this particular arc of Spider-Man, to me at least, is that first and foremost it makes fun of itself, which is good. I mean, I did think that Spidey’s new outfit looked like it was from Tron but I didn’t want to be the one to say it. I’m glad that the writer got to work it in there instead.
But the most important part of this entire story is the fire, downright evil and just sinister quality of the Goblin here. This Goblin is just dark, ruthless and answers to no one. Then he kind of pulls a Peter Parker and begins videotaping his own crimes to submit to the Daily Bugle. This character- this version of it- is just the type you want to see in a movie but know is too complex to ever be involved in something that is still ultimately geared toward kids. Yes, this super villain might scare the little ones a bit too much, but I’d still like to see a movie take a shot at it. Nevertheless, if we don’t get the movie at least we still have this comic book to read.
See, people will make the comparison of comic books to movies from here on out because it’s not going to sound strange to ever say “This would make a great movie” because that’s probably how a lot of comic books get made into movies (and they do). But then at some point, you have to wonder when people will start giving up on comic books and start saying “Well, if this comic book arc is so great I’ll wait until they make it into a movie”. Yes, it’s kind of what happened to literature in a way when people stopped reading in favor of “waiting for the movie”. This right here is exactly why I still read comic books, and even though it’s self-defeating not to (because if people just wait for the movie, eventually the comic books themselves suffer), you’re also missing out on some great characters and stories if you just wait for Hollywood to “make the good ones” as opposed to reading them and choosing the good ones for yourself.
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