written by Jonathan Hickman
drawn by Marco Checchetto
colored by Matt Wilson
This was a review I actually started months ago, right after I had read the comic, but life just caught up with me in a major way and before I knew it, two months had passed and two more issues had come out, but I will persevere anyway and publish this review.
So in this issue, thirty-five year old Peter Parker, having only just learned that it was his destiny to fight crime with super powers, and having only just acquired said super powers, heads out in an attempt to fulfill this destiny that Tony Stark told him about in the last issue. Things do not go nearly as well as Peter had hoped, and he finds himself on the verge of calling it quits, when he finds support from the most unexpected of places.
While it's certainly not the most marketable point, I find it deeply fascinating that a key facet of Hickman and Checchetto's alternate take on the Spider-Man mythos is something that has never been done before, i.e. what if Spider-Man was motivated by something other than guilt?
It's early days so we'll wonder if his conviction will be as strong enough for Peter to stay the course, but Hickman and Checchetto are well and truly making a case for this new iteration of the character. This issue truly had me looking forward to more.
8.5/10
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