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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
A truly excellent condensed Spider-Man story. A love letter to Gwen Stacy after her death includes many major Spider-Man villains. This book was absolutely full of love for Spider-Man's history both plotwise and characterwise. You even get to see the evolution of Mary Jane from silver age bombshell to modern-age three-dimensional character.
[a:Tim Sale|61388|Tim Sale|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1576874697p2/61388.jpg]'s art is, as always, fantastic. But I so associate him with DC (thanks to Loeb & Sale's[b:Batman: The Long Halloween|106069|Batman The Long Halloween|Jeph Loeb|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1350137101l/106069._SY75_.jpg|680248]) that I kept thinking of this as a DC book.
If you're a Spider-Man fan, this is an excellent book. I would even recommend this as a first Spider-Man book, as it encapsulates so many of the classic tropes and stories without making it seem like a Greatest Hits storyline.
[a:Tim Sale|61388|Tim Sale|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1576874697p2/61388.jpg]'s art is, as always, fantastic. But I so associate him with DC (thanks to Loeb & Sale's[b:Batman: The Long Halloween|106069|Batman The Long Halloween|Jeph Loeb|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1350137101l/106069._SY75_.jpg|680248]) that I kept thinking of this as a DC book.
If you're a Spider-Man fan, this is an excellent book. I would even recommend this as a first Spider-Man book, as it encapsulates so many of the classic tropes and stories without making it seem like a Greatest Hits storyline.
La manera en la que se trata el duelo en este pequeño cómic, dios mío. Y la manera en la que se contrapone la narración fría de Peter recordando a Gwen mientras pasa su duelo, hasta la narración cálida de Peter recordando a Gwen mientras ambos se enamoraban. Ay, dios mío.
3.5 stars that I rounded up to 4 because Tim Sale's art is great and because Peter had a milk mustache for two pages.
"You name was Gwen Stacy. Mine is Peter Parker. This is the story of how we fell in love. Or, more appropriately, how we almost didn't fall in love."
Apart from being beautifully drawn and coloured (in an old school kind of way), I love the balance the comic book achieves between Gwen and Mary Jane. It illustrates Peter's great love for Gwen in the past, all the while not diminishing his love for Mary Jane in the present. Also, Spider-Man: Blue makes you feel melancholic and wonder how things might have been different had Gwen not died.
"Will you do me a favor, Peter? Say "Hello" to Gwen for me and -- tell Gwen I miss her, too..."
Apart from being beautifully drawn and coloured (in an old school kind of way), I love the balance the comic book achieves between Gwen and Mary Jane. It illustrates Peter's great love for Gwen in the past, all the while not diminishing his love for Mary Jane in the present. Also, Spider-Man: Blue makes you feel melancholic and wonder how things might have been different had Gwen not died.
"Will you do me a favor, Peter? Say "Hello" to Gwen for me and -- tell Gwen I miss her, too..."
gwen/peter/mary jane ot3 ;___; i love that this book doesn't pit mary jane and gwen against each other (like fandom unfortunately so often does). they were very different girls, who both meant a lot to peter and were huge influences on his life but they were also friends and i loved that spider-man: blue reminded us of that.
Imaginative retelling of the classic Peter Parker/Gwen Stacey/MJ triangle. Enjoyable, but not entirely groundbreaking.
Better writers than me have already talked about how this is a disappointment, but then, better writers than Loeb have told a lot of his stories and he's still written stuff like Spider-Man: Blue. This is in theory a retelling of the innocence, and loss thereof, of the Spider-Man supporting cast of the 1970s-- it's even supposed to be told from Peter directly to Gwen after her death, except of course that Gwen is barely in it and is practically forgotten about in a jumble of boring fights and lame narration from a Peter who kind of comes off like an asshole.
The Spider-Man college years have always had the individual components of an incredible story, even if the circumstances of their original telling weren't perfect, and they've long been ripe for a retelling that unifies plot threads and themes for all the resonance they rightly deserve. Peter and Harry's rooming together, their unique friendship and love triangle with MJ, Peter and Gwen's relationship, Harry's relationship with his father, Norman's obsession with Peter, the way Gwen's death changes the group-- none of it was ever mined for the depth that it really had in the original run, although later writers (especially JM DeMatteis' Harry-centric arcs in Spectacular in the 90s) would suggest a lot of things off-panel. Why isn't there a definitive retelling of such a potent story? Loeb starts his book here pretending it's going to be that, and then not only is it not, it does a worse job of telling the story in the first place (outside of Sale's excellent artwork of course).
The Spider-Man college years have always had the individual components of an incredible story, even if the circumstances of their original telling weren't perfect, and they've long been ripe for a retelling that unifies plot threads and themes for all the resonance they rightly deserve. Peter and Harry's rooming together, their unique friendship and love triangle with MJ, Peter and Gwen's relationship, Harry's relationship with his father, Norman's obsession with Peter, the way Gwen's death changes the group-- none of it was ever mined for the depth that it really had in the original run, although later writers (especially JM DeMatteis' Harry-centric arcs in Spectacular in the 90s) would suggest a lot of things off-panel. Why isn't there a definitive retelling of such a potent story? Loeb starts his book here pretending it's going to be that, and then not only is it not, it does a worse job of telling the story in the first place (outside of Sale's excellent artwork of course).
Un homenaje nostálgico a los comics originales de Spider-Man. Desde las influencias (homenajes) de Romita hasta el argumento que cabalga sobre los números iniciales, asistimos a un enorme Flashback en el que Peter Parker rememora con tristeza los inicios de su relación con Gwen Stacy y su primer gran enfrentamiento con Norman Osborn. Nostalgia concentrada con una visión más madura de las primeras aventuras del trepamuros.
Obviously has the silly super hero moments but the writing in second hand to Gwen and the way he expresses his feelings is so brilliantly done and heartfelt. That’s what made me give it 5 stars. I also like that its not the conventional way of depicting the love story between him and Gwen.