Comments on: Amazing Spider-Man #578 Review

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:00:24 +0000

I'm not puzzled by his style. I just don't think it's very good wrt compositions and figure drawing. There are others who do similar styles better, like Rivera. I hope you'll realize that and change your mind. I think JR Jr is still underrated. I suspect that people can't see past his simple, blocky surface to see the good-to-excellent compositions and practically unmatched dynamic poses beneath.

By: Leocomix

Leocomix — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:42:10 +0000

OMD needed to happen because the writers need a single Parker in order to have the right feel for the character. Marcos Martin is currently the best Spider-Man artist. I understand that some people are puzzled by his style but I think they will change their mind.

By: Glen Newman

Glen Newman — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:22:04 +0000

With this, New Ways To Die and Joe Kelly's recent two parter, BND seems to have finally hit it's stride. I still only seem to buy ASM depending on the creative teams though but now i coming back more regulary. Oh, and with this issue, Marcos Martin just became my favourite penciller at the moment.

By: Anthony Cheng

Anthony Cheng — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:56:48 +0000

But this begs the question: was that little snippet critical to telling the story Waid set out to tell (especially considering its dropped immediately when the "real" action starts)? If I could step into his brain, I would guess the elements of this particular plot have been in his head well before OMD. Going over the whole BND run, most "single Peter" moments are about this trivial. Even the new Betty & Veronica angle they cooked up early on fizzled out completely. The (largely nonsensical) Lilly Hollister subplot is the only outlier, and even THAT doesn't require a single Peter to work.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:57:37 +0000

The model scene is in the issue because of Peter being single - if he were married, it wouldn't be there.

By: Anthony Cheng

Anthony Cheng — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:16:03 +0000

I agree, this issue was par excellence for Spidey. And in general, the BND run has been pretty good.

I only wonder why OMD had to happen to get good Spidey books again. Nothing in Waid's story required a magically single Peter Parker to work.

By: MarkAndrew

MarkAndrew — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:01:25 +0000

Yeah. Man. That was really good! Alternately goofy and moody in 'bout equal measure. I'm quite glad you posted the Marcos Martin scans way-back-when. Now I'm buying all his issues.

By: tk.

tk. — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:59:49 +0000

Personally, I'm a huge fan of Bachalo, and although I don't collect ASM too much these days, I had to pick up the issues that he did and it was definitely worth it. I can't wait to see him back on something regularly, and I certainly wouldn't mind if he went back to UXM. I think JRJR is at his best doing Thor, though, his Asgardian costumes rock.

By: Joe H

Joe H — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:34:34 +0000

Ever since New Ways to Die there hasn't been a bad Spidey story and that was, what, two months ago? Not so long, but that's six great Spidey issues. Man, I love getting Amazing 3 times a month.
But so far my favorite artists on this title have been Bachalo, Rivera, Martin, JRJr, and McNiven.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:22:18 +0000

Matt D - that's from Keith Giffen's most recent column on CBR.

By: Rusty Priske

Rusty Priske — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:18:30 +0000

I REALLY don't like Marcos Martin's work... but this issue was a LOT better than his previous Spidey appearance.

By: I. Glow

I. Glow — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:45:40 +0000

It's neat that Rivera and Martin were put back to back, there's kind of consistency that way. I prefer Rivera and #577 in general, but Waid and Martin have definitely proved themselves as "buy on sight" names for this title to me.

By: Matt D

Matt D — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:10:36 +0000

A sort of interesting question there is whether stories can just exist as stories in 2008 or whether they need something more. I forget where I saw it, but I swear sometime in the last week I heard someone ask "Doesn't anyone ever just rob banks anymore?"

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:48:05 +0000

Marcos Martin is ok, but both JR Jr and the last issue's Paolo Rivera are better. Martin's easily better than Barry Kitson (ASM #574) and narrowly better than Chris Bachalo, though.

By: Bat2supe

Bat2supe — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:07:42 +0000

I enjoyed this issue & Amazing Spider-Man so far, it needed a reboot & it's way better that the pre-OMD stories ( doesn't mean that OMD was good, hell no !!!).

My only concern, & that's why I dig this issue, is the way Peter Parker/Spider-Man is depicted.
The writers tend to make him way too juvenile, sometimes even a newbie & that doesn't work for me, maybe they tried too hard to expose the "new" , post-OMD Peter Parker/Spider-Man.

Although they sometimes push too far the comedy aspect of the character & it's like the latest Eddy Murphy flick simply NOT FUNNY.

Coming back to the subject: nice issue Waid & Martin.