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A review by crookedtreehouse
Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows by Dan Slott
3.0
When DC Comics rerererererererererererebooted their universe a few years ago with Rebirth, a few of my friends were excited about a series where Superman had a family to be responsible for. A wife (Lois, natch) and a child. Batman had his own son (as opposed to one of his many adopted kids) show up over a decade ago. There's even an alternate universe where there's a Spider-Girl who happens to be Peter Parker's daughter. So superheroes with kids isn't exactly untrodden territory. Even Spider-Man has been there before.
The first four issues of this Secret Wars title did an excellent job of making me care about Peter Parker, Mary Jane, and their daughter Anna-May. (Of course Peter would have a kid with a hyphen in her name.) It was written by Slott, who had been writing Spider-Man for what seems like centuries, and had a good grasp on Spider-dialogue and continuity and how to write a fun story. I thought this was a four star book.
The villain was a fairly recent Slott creation, the story was almost on par with a What If Peter Parker Was A Mutant And He Had A Kid, the universe building was way above the Spider-Island book from Secret Wars.
I had high hopes.
They were dashed in the final issue which read like a silver-age issue where very character says their catch phrase and good triumphs over Extreme Evil without really breaking a sweat, despite four issues building the villain up as unstoppable. Like, he can wipe out All Of The Avengers, including Hulk but an eight year old girl with no fighting experience is too much for him? Sure.
Overall, it's not a terrible spider-story, I'd put it halway between Spider-Island and Spider-Verse (the Secret Wars versions of both). If you have the interest, it's worth the time despite the shaky dismount.
The first four issues of this Secret Wars title did an excellent job of making me care about Peter Parker, Mary Jane, and their daughter Anna-May. (Of course Peter would have a kid with a hyphen in her name.) It was written by Slott, who had been writing Spider-Man for what seems like centuries, and had a good grasp on Spider-dialogue and continuity and how to write a fun story. I thought this was a four star book.
The villain was a fairly recent Slott creation, the story was almost on par with a What If Peter Parker Was A Mutant And He Had A Kid, the universe building was way above the Spider-Island book from Secret Wars.
I had high hopes.
They were dashed in the final issue which read like a silver-age issue where very character says their catch phrase and good triumphs over Extreme Evil without really breaking a sweat, despite four issues building the villain up as unstoppable. Like, he can wipe out All Of The Avengers, including Hulk but an eight year old girl with no fighting experience is too much for him? Sure.
Overall, it's not a terrible spider-story, I'd put it halway between Spider-Island and Spider-Verse (the Secret Wars versions of both). If you have the interest, it's worth the time despite the shaky dismount.