From The Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #673 (2012)
While I’m partial to cities like Metropolis, Gotham City, and Opal City in my comics, there’s certainly something to be said for having a comic book take place in an actual city. You can tease emotion out of readers in way that would be tougher to do in a city that only existed on paper. Such emotion was accomplished in The Amazing Spider-Man #673.
This issue is the calm after the storm that was Spider-Island. With Spider-Man’s help, New York City was able to overcome a virus unleashed by the Spider-Queen. After nearly all of its citizens turned into giant spiders, New York needed all of the help it could get and Spider-Man came to the city’s aid. When calm, and an antidote, descended onto the city, Mary Jane took Peter to the top of a skyscraper to show him that the lights of the Empire State Building, that icon of New York, had been changed to blue and red in Spider-Man’s honor. It was a touching moment that used the reader’s history with a real building to covey the relationship between a city and its hero. And it worked. Dan Slott, Stefano Caselli, and colorist Frank Martin nailed it.
Special thanks to iFanboy’s own Ali Colluccio for the recommendation of this Great Page.
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That… or the Rangers won.
lol. Nice
I’m from New England and New York will always suck but that’s a nice moment.
haha. yeah.
Doesn’t hold a candle to this one:
https://ifanboy.com/articles/great-pages-ex-machina-1/
This was one of those moments that reminded me there is a good reason Spider-man, as a character, is so popular. This and the crane scene in the ASM movie.
Nice choice today, I loved Spider Island and this page was perfect at the end of that story.
I really liked this image when i read it. Great moment, and very touching.
Fantastic choice. I just read Spider-Island this weekend, and this stuck out to me as a great page, too.
Gee they make a nice couple don’t they…