BACK TO BASICS, PART TWO
An alien invasion hits New York City and the only one who can stop it is…Spider-Man?! But that’s far from all you’ll find here—a revelation from the past puts Peter Parker’s job, relationships, and whole life in jeopardy! And if even that’s not enough, you’ll see a new roommate, new love interests—and a new villain! Spider-Man goes back to basics courtesy of Nick Spencer (SECRET EMPIRE, SUPERIOR FOES OF SPIDER-MAN) and the Marvel debut of RYAN OTTLEY (Invincible)!
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Eric O'Grady (LMD)
Curt Connors
Michael Marko
Anthony Davis
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Tony Masters
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I refuse to support marvels constant renumberings. Variant art, and story telling that I have seen before. Peter needs to grow up.
He did, actually, way back when Straczynski took over. Then it all got retconned. Then they tried it again, then it got retconned. Then he had a family, and it got retconned. I gave up on it too. Let the characters evolve or, *gasp* die and be replaced.
They decided to undo everything from the last 5 years or so of Spider-Man. Tiresome as hell.
It's progressing with regression if that makes any sense. I am just upset that in an attempt to make it feel like classic and old Spider-Man they are bringing Peter all the way back down. It gets so old. It's just horribly manufactured.
I thought #2 was a little less down than #1. (Loved the bookfair section and Peter feeling so on-top that he was kinder to the D-listers.) Maybe the "bringing down" is also part of clearing the slate, especially since Spidey is often distinguished by his resiliency. I appreciate that in this issue, it's through the support of others that lift him up. (MJ and Connors.)
It seems the power set for the character keeps changing. The version from Spider-Men II seems different to the incarnation in this and from Secret Empire that I read.
Spectacular Spider-Man just had a whole arc about Taskmaster! He's back now in the new series??!
Agreed. My only gripe with this issue was making Taskmaster seem like such a chump. I'm biased though, I love Taskmaster.
Doesn't take much to correct the the mistake of ending MJ and Pete's relationship.