So I have a weird character choice. It’s Spider-Man. Now I’ve always liked Spidey... but I don’t know if I “got him” like some people did when they grew up. I remember the McFarlane stuff, the Larsen, and through the big Bagley runs. Soooo many fun stories that were fun to read, but I never had a lot of real attachment. The AvX happened …
So I have a weird character choice. It’s Spider-Man. Now I’ve always liked Spidey... but I don’t know if I “got him” like some people did when they grew up. I remember the McFarlane stuff, the Larsen, and through the big Bagley runs. Soooo many fun stories that were fun to read, but I never had a lot of real attachment. The AvX happened (literally over 20 years since my first Spidey books).
In issue 9 by Bendis and Kubert there is a scene inside of a volcano when a collected team of X-Men and Avengers are trying to e cape a volcano, and get ambushed by Phoenix Colossus and Magik. Spidey rushes them all out and confronts the two himself. There’s a crazy DPS of him just getting his ass handed to him, and just continues to get up again and again running his mouth off. He tricks the two into taking each other out and the story shifts elsewhere... but something about those two specific pages completely shifted my views on Mr. Parker. I don’t know why, but every book I ever read with him has a new set of eyes on it from me.
So I have a weird character choice. It’s Spider-Man. Now I’ve always liked Spidey... but I don’t know if I “got him” like some people did when they grew up. I remember the McFarlane stuff, the Larsen, and through the big Bagley runs. Soooo many fun stories that were fun to read, but I never had a lot of real attachment. The AvX happened (literally over 20 years since my first Spidey books).
In issue 9 by Bendis and Kubert there is a scene inside of a volcano when a collected team of X-Men and Avengers are trying to e cape a volcano, and get ambushed by Phoenix Colossus and Magik. Spidey rushes them all out and confronts the two himself. There’s a crazy DPS of him just getting his ass handed to him, and just continues to get up again and again running his mouth off. He tricks the two into taking each other out and the story shifts elsewhere... but something about those two specific pages completely shifted my views on Mr. Parker. I don’t know why, but every book I ever read with him has a new set of eyes on it from me.
That's an awesome moment -- and I love that you picked an "unconventional" spidey scene.