Spider-Man Marvel Adventures 17
Writer-Paul Tobin
Pencils-Matteo Lolli and Di Salvo
Colors-Soto color
Inks-Terry Pallot
I was bitten by a radioactive spider. It gave me super human strength, speed, and other awesome abilities. At first it was cool. I used my powers to become a celebrity. The my uncle was killed by a an I could have stopped. I’m doing my best to make up for that. I’m Peter Parker. You can call me Spider-Man.
Plot:
There are two stories in this issue. The first has Spidey against the Sinister Six, which consist of diabolical Dr. Octopus, Sandman, Electro, Kraven the hunter, master of illusion Mysterio, and The villainous Vulture. If you didn’t know that, You’r probably on the wrong site.
The Sinister six had actually banded together for a jewelry heist, and only decided to attack Spidey after the Vulture goes missing. Aunt May and Gwen were shopping, which is kinda weird, but the Vulture stole her purse and Aunt May said some things to him, and the Vulture was feeling bad and guilty. He needed time to go think, and called Doc Ock and told him he had been taken out by Spider-Man.
Spidey ended up defeating the Sinister five, while the Vulture continued to sulk, with the story ending with him returning the purse to Aunt May and apologizing.
The second story has Sandman and Kraven the Hunter going after our hero after breaking out of prison.
Commentary:
I was pretty disappointed with this issue. I hate seeing Spidey villains being treated like chumps. Paul Tobin, in this issue made them seem like absolute jokes. Spidey took the out so easily. In that Mysterio issue I reviewed a few months back, Spidey had a harder time taking on Mysterio by himself than he does the entire Sinister six here. That bothers me.
I did enjoy all the stuff with the Vulture however. After Aunt May yells at him, he spends the whole issue sulking and feeling bad. The scene where he returned the Purse to Peter at the house had me laughing. That’s so different from 616 Vulture who would murder Aunt May without a second thought.
The second story was pretty dumb as well. Sandman broke out of prison cause he’s made of sand. Okay, I get that. Kraven broke out of prison because he says no prison can hold the worlds greatest hunter. Really?
It can hold Electro. But Kraven is just too cunning to be held? Whatever.
The art, as usual was great, and Spidey’s dialogue was fun. It just really bothers me when his villains are treated as jokes. I was really hoping for an epic Sinister Six fight, and, so far, Ive been enjoying this title so much, but this issue was such a let down.
I have high hopes for next issue however. It’s the return of The Green Goblin!
Overall:
2/5 I’m too mad to even keep typing
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In the beginning of the series she was featured more but the last five issues or so have been all spidey vs the villain stuff with no room for subplots
Her and Peter are friends, and she hangs out with aunt may
she also knows spiderman because he regularly works with capt stacy on cases
As far as MJ I havent seen her once or betty or any of spideys other love interests
Sounds kind of lackluster. I´m just curious butters, what is Gwens status in this Marvel Age universe? Since you´ve been reading the book, I guess you must know. Is she in it often? Or just once every now and then?
Yeah I loved the masters of evil story
And usually this title is great
He must have been having a bad month maybe
I was pretty disappointed, too. I love the Sinister Six and picked it up on a whim, only to realize that I pretty much crapshot four dollars.
Paul Tobin did such a wonderful job handling the Sinister Six in “Dr. Doom and the Masters of Evil” that it’s really puzzling to see his name attached to this story. None of the Six really have the same personalities or charisma that he gave them in that single chapter, so this issue came across as very odd.
I will say that its one redeeming value is seeing Tobin handle Electro, who, as you remember, was left out of “Dr. Doom” and replaced by Chameleon. Here Electro acts very much like he did in the “Spectacular Spider-Man” animated series: hot-tempered and quick to blast ANYONE when infuriated. He’s handled rather well (and I loved the exchange where Spidey mocks his costume as being ‘flower-like’).
The back-up story…yes, another waste. Why was it called “Birds of a Feather”?
I feel inclined to go easy on Marvel Age stories, but there isn’t much excuse for this. I like Paul Tobin’s work, and I love seeing the Sinister Six, but I was left kinda’ cold with this one.