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I'm a big fan off Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb. I love the work they've done with Batman, and out comes another fantastically told story.
I did not grow up with Gwen Stacy. I'm not a rabid Spider-Man fan. In fact, you might not even call me a rabid comic book fan. I enjoy them, but I'm more casual. I like short run series, and this is one of the best ones I've read in a while.
It was honestly one of the most satisfying reads I've had in a very long time.
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Blue is a well drawn work. Tim Sale's art does not disappoint nor do Steve Buccaletto's colors.
Where Blue stumbles is the horrible, trite "humor" spouted by Spidey during his fisticuffs.
Jeph Loeb is a talented writer and should have made Spiderman's banter humorous not cliched and wretched. It's a very irritating distractor.
Ultimately, Blue fails to deliver anything new or original to Spiderman's early days. It's a decent work but nothing special.
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Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale worked a lot of magic for DC with their various Batman mini's and Superman For All Seasons, but their work for Marvel has never come close to the excellence the pair achieved together for the rival company. Daredevil: Yellow was good, and detailed the love of Matt Murdock and the late Karen Page, and Spider-Man: Blue more or less follows the same blueprint. Spider-Man: Blue is basically a love letter to Gwen Stacy, the first true love of Peter Parker who met an untimely and tragic death at the hands of the Green Goblin. Sadly though, much of Loeb's attempts to coax emotion out of the reader fall flat, and before you know it, Blue becomes too overly boring, and sadly, even feels overlong as well. Tim Sale's artwork on the other hand is beautiful and a sight to behold to say the least. His renderings of Gwen Stacy are reason enough alone to check out this TPB, but Loeb sadly comes up short. All in all, Spider-Man: Blue is a disappointing work from Loeb and Sale, but it's still worth checking out for Sale's gorgeous visuals alone.
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What can I say? This comicbook was great. Awesome artwork and the story fit in well with how Peter Parker felt. It's no secret that Gwen Stacy would have married Parker if it wasn't for her ending. Too bad she had to go, but at least this comicbook is a nice tribute to Parker's first love. Anyways, if you want a comicbook that looks into Parker's soul and realize how much he loves both Gwen and MJ, check out this book.
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Four words: I love this book. Never has a hero captured my attention more than Spider-Man. For years, I've been reading Spidey comics, to the extent that if you'd ask me, I can give you a concise history of the life of Spider-Man. I thought I knew him inside and out.
Then I read this story.
Spider-Man: Blue #1, which is collected in this trade paperback, is now my favorite comic book ever. Oh, you may say, this can't rival such epics as "Watchmen" or "The Dark Knight Returns". You're right. It can't. But something doesn't have to be the best to be your favorite.
Spider-Man: Blue explores Spider-Man's life at its most classic point. Here you battles of Spidey vs. Goblin, Rhino, Vulture, Kraven, Lizard, and more. You have the budding romance of Peter and Gwen. There's the introduction of Mary Jane Watson. It's the best of Spidey. He's at high points, he's a low points. But it all follows one pattern. Bad before Good.
And thankfully, this graphic novel is a story that's ALL good.
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