In 1986, a little book came out in which a retired superhero, who's past his prime,
goes out to once again bring justice to a city that's slowly going to hell.
Frank Miller's and Klaus Janson's
"The Dark knight returns" is considered one
of the best graphic novels out there, and for
a very good reason.
This book single-handedly, well,
almost single-handedly kicked off the Dark Age of comics, which was
way more realistic and gritty than everything that was being published
up until then.
In it, a retired Bruce Wayne once again Takes on the mantle of the bat to fight
Crime in Gotham City.
it's a very dark and gritty tale.
So, what does this have to do with Spider-man and Spider-man reign?
Well, since Spider-man reign is a parody of "The Dark Knight Returns", pretty much
everything.
I'm Dave Marcel and this is my comic book obsession!
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Spider-man reign came out 2006, and it's always been very open about its roots as
a dark knight returns parody.
There's even a character in there
called Miller Jansen who is a very clear a homage to the creators of the original
Dark Knight Returns.
So how is this book?
It's a weird carnival ride for sure.
30 years in the future, New York City is a crime-free city, under the totalitarian
control of its mayor, who uses a gestapo-like police force called
the reign to mercilessly crush anything from crime to rebellious
teenagers.
In this future, a lonely and broken Peter Parker, age late sixties
to early seventies haunted by hallucinations of his wife Mary Jane,
who died of cancer, brought on by years of exposure to Peter's radioactive
body fluids.
Heh! Radioactive body fluids.
that's pretty dark.
Spider-spunk, Spider-spunk, From radioactive Spider-junk,
destroys the chromosomes in your genes, your cells come apart at the seams,
look out!
Here comes the Spider-spunk!
Although this is still a better way to end his
Marrige than the whole
"I'll sell my marriage to the devil, so Aunt May can live another year!"
thing of "one more day"
it's eventually revealed that Peter was with MJ when she was dying, but
swung-off when there was gunfire outside.
When he came back, MJ was already gone, causing him to hang up his webs
for good.
being recently fired from his job as a florist, Pete witnesses the police
brutally take down a smart-mouthed graffiti artist.
what bothers me here is that there's no spider-sense, nothing to keep Peters
Brittle bones from being broken "like a bar of soap" here.
I mean, come on.
the kid runs into him.
the guard falls on him and breaks his arm that way, there are clearly
no
spider-powers left here, yet by the end of the
issue, his speed strength and agility is
back allowing him to later survive a severe beating by the Sinister Six.
Ok the setup is kinda long winded and Peter's inner monologue here is kinda
Crappy, but wow! the payoff for that one panel right there,
that's pretty awesome!
So let's get to: The Verdict
Writing: peter being, well, insane with grief,
and Jonah Jameson being….
whatever kind of crazy that is,
it works pretty well in this alternate reality, parody setting.
It takes the tried-and-true, and let's be honest kind of tired
"Peter Parker messes something up because he shirks his responsibilities,
but then he comes back at the last minute and he fixes it"
thing, runs it through a gritty, dark, hopeless, joyless filter, and then lets it fly to
see what happens, and that works out really well.
So, is this a good book?
No! no it's not! it's bad! it's really bad!
it's AWESOMELY bad!
Mary Jane dies of spiders-sperm poisoning,
Doc Ock's arms come alive and decide they're going to save spider-man because
they're Ock's sons and that's his last will.
Venom becomes a politician-
uh, spoilers by the way, sorry.
it's just really bad, and I think they wanted it
to be this bad, because it's pure comedic genius!
you know, this is so bad it's really good!
I'm giving this five stars for the writing!
Artwork:
Again, it's like a funhouse mirror version of "The Dark Knight Returns"
My only gripe with this is that some of the backgrounds and some of the inking
you can clearly tell this is early usable computer graphics and I'm really not a fan
of those but the set up to certain scenes is
good, the payoff is great, the action feels
tight, I really like the art in this.
Digital enjoyability:
You don't need to Zoom, but if you do most of the panels go to the full
tablet screen, and there is just some minimal fuzziness, so again, four stars.
Value for money: this is going for around three dollars
so again, there's nothing to complain
about here that's what a single issue of a new comic book is going for and you're
getting four issues here.
So that's my review of Spider-man Reign please click like and subscribe,
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check out one of these other videos over here and I'll see you around for the next
video!
Spider-spunk, Spider-spunk, From radioactive Spider-junk,
in your lap or in your mouth, your health is going south, look out!
Here comes the Spider-spunk!
In the Dead of the night, You're the scene of the crime,
'cause his DNA's, gonna break you in time!
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Look out!
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