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Possibly the saddest graphic novel I ever read. But that's just how great it is! I've read Hulk: Gray, Daredevil: Yellow, but this is by far the best one (not sure why other people say Yellow is). I'm not that big of a Spider-Man fan, and I have no knowledge who killed Gwen Stacey, but that was not really necessary in this story even though I'm really interested to find out now! The artwork is spectacular although I prefer the artwork in Superman for All Seasons. Lois Lane just blows all the girls in Blue away. But the ending is like just so sad, I never thought a comic book can make you feel this way.
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Man, this story was good!!! This story takes place after the death of Gwen Stacy(gets killed by the Green Goblin). what makes this a really great read is that Peter Parker is caught between two women, one being Mary-Jane and the other is Gwen Stacy. His choice and struggle between them make this Graphic novel a collectable. Loeb is a fantastic writer. He adds a kind of innocence in his stories. which i like a lot. Tim Sale art is awsome as always.
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When you buy a product like this, there are two things that are important, to me there are anyway, namely the story and the quality of the book(paper, colouring, ...) and both are of a really high standard.
The story is a nostalgic one. Peter Parker/Spider-Man tells the story of how he met and came to love Gwen Stacy into an old recorder. The story is told with a voiceover. A storytelling devise Jeph Loeb uses a lot in his stories. We see what is happening while we can read what Peter's thoughts are about this event so many years later, which explains the whole nostalgic tone. I found that the whole dichotomy between Peter Parker and Spider-Man was played out very well. The (sometimes over)-confident Spider-Man who has a comeback for everything and a bumbling Peter Parker who hasn't yet found the same confidence in his social skills that he has in his crimefighting abillities.
As for the art, don't expect a style like Long Halloween or Dark Victory, the style Tim Sale uses here is more playfull than that. Don't expect the long faces or dark style, it is still identifiable as Tim Sale, which I love, but he adepts more to the character of Spider-Man.
I'm not really a Spider-Man connaisseur, all I know about Spider-Man has come from the movies and the animated series that was made in the nineties, although I've always loved the character. I was drawn to this graphic novel because of the creative team that is behind it. I've loved the works of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, as individuals, but perhaps most as a duo (Batman: The Long Halloween, Batman: Dark Victory).
Then we have the quality of the book. This is a really good purchase, the book is slightly larger than other graphic novels and the hardcover has a really lightblue colour to coincide with the title.
The extras are there, but not overpresent. So don't buy this book for the extras, buy it for the story and the art.
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One of my favorite Spider-Man stories, let alone Jeph Loeb stories. It truly is a heart-felt journey, and I was glad I took it.
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This isn't too bad, somewhat pretty, but not overly interesting. Seems a decent excuse for them to draw some retro high school hip chicks, I suppose. Throw in Spidey's rogues gallery, as well. It is perhaps trying to hard to get that balance between retro and modern enough to appeal to the kidlets of today.
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