The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

Like X-Men: First Class this flick manages to fall flat. It too suffers from poor character development and a lack of acting range. Martin Sheen gave a notable performance but this was in spite of the script. Spider-Man is angry and out for vengeance, seemingly more like Batman, versus the actual guilt-ridden teen he is meant to be. He is also far too cool compared to the nerdy exterior Pete is meant to exhibit– or maybe that’s just the skateboard tricks talking. I’m not sure why they recycled a movie only to literally recycle the Green Goblin manic craziness into the Lizard. Rhy Ifans ain’t no Willem Defoe and that’s OK; but why try to copy the schtick of the first Spider-Man film? In summation: entertaining overall, pales in comparison to the Tobey Maguire version, and becomes a turd if you think about it too much.

I think it needed more CGI

Death of Spider-man, Birth of YAWWWWNNN

Prove me wrong Marvel Comics, cause I got a feeling this is going to be a snoozer of a story-line. [source]

Spidey Team-up

The Little Comic Reader

When I was a young lad my father set up a comic-book mail-in subscription for me. My title of choice was a  Spider-man classics run that started with reprints of the beginnings of Spider-man, Amazing Spider-man 1+ (and Amazing Fantasy #15). The publication went about 16 issues into Amazing Spider-man and then abruptly stopped. Imagine my dismay as I opened the mail-box, removed my monthly comic, and found that Marvel decided to send me Conan in lieu. Conan does not compare to Spidey. Replacing a 3rd grader’s comic-book, about a nerd turned super-hero, with an ancient tale of some bone-head is pretty lame. They could have at the very least substituted it with Iron Man or The Fantastic Four.

This brings us to today, where Conan remains  a distant memory of my childhood. However, as I walked through the comic shop this afternoon, I  saw this wild statue. A reminder of Marvel’s piss-poor decision to change up my subscription to classic 60s Spider-man tales with early 90s Conan… I sure hope that Green Goblin got what was coming to him, I may never know.

I don’t care what anyone says, Conan, you’re a tool.

Slap!

 

I am fond of the phrase, “you reap what you sow.” And what we have here is the King Pin reaping a big bowl of pimp-slap from Peter Parker- so much so that it hurts my face to look at the panels. Let us learn this lesson: never put a hit out on Spidey’s Aunt.