Mar 25, 2009 > Ultimate Spider-Man Prem Hc Power And Responsibility

Ultimate Spider-Man Prem Hc Power And Responsibility

Review by chlop:

Ultimate Spider-Man Prem Hc Power And Responsibility

WRITER: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
PENCILS: MARK BAGLEY
COVER BY: MARK BAGLEY

Price: $24.99


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Avg Rating: 5

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Comments

People will cry foul when you say that this book wasn't a success. But the Ultimate line was supposed to draw in new readers--with few exceptions, it failed. The line was supposed to make its way onto regular newsstands to be sold amount magazines--this idea failed, with the exception of racks in Borders and Barnes & Noble. The line did not appeal ENOUGH to younger readers who wouldn't've read comics otherwise. It failed despite Bendis's idea of what younger readers would like to see in a reboot Spider-Man book. Maybe the prospect was hopeless--maybe NOTHING would have worked--but this sure didn't. Nevertheless, 35-year-old guys who've been reading comics since they were 8 love to say that Ultimate Spidey is a great book, the perfect evolution of the Spidey franchise. They have a reason for saying this: because the book was very good at doing what it did: making 30-year-old readers feel like they were reading something meant for the younger readers of today. The whole thing creeps me out. 35-year-olds caring about a 16-year-old Peter Parker having sex with a 15-year-old Mary Jane Watson, 35-year-olds pontificating about how "realistic", "natural" and "snappy" the (trendy, cliche) dialogues of fictitious teenagers are. With that said, I've read over half of Ulitmate Spider-Man up to about issue 100. Why? Because I got it for free and because reading it is a curious exercise and a good epitome of what passes for good mainstream comics today. I think you're being a little too hard, though, especially on the art. And I don't think Bendis's writing here is "bad", just...weird. He is a GREAT plotter, though.

There's a weird disconnect, though. In the dialogue. In how Ultimate Spider-Man was marketed. It's supposedly  been written for a younger audience...that doesn't actually read it, but it's read by a much older audience who praises it...in large part because they think it does a good job of reaching the audience it doesn't reach.

Posted by flapjaxx on 04/30/09 at 12:19 PM

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