Comic Review: W.E.B of Spider-man
For those following over on YouTube, you will have seen that I have started collecting Atomic Mass Games Marvel Crisis Protocol. So, I have a real itch for some Marvel goodness. Here enters this library find: W.E.B of Spider-man. If you don’t already, go check out my YouTube Channel (Link)
Title: W.E.B. OF SPIDER-MAN
Cover Art: Gurihiru
Illustrator: Alberto Alburquerque
Writer: Kevin Shinick
Blurb:
Peter Parker. Spider-Man. Scientist. Troublemaker? Thanks to Tony Stark, a new scientific research station for the teenage heroes of the Marvel Universe has just been completed — and Spider-Man just got an invitation to join! Working alongside some of your favourite faces from the MU, inventing and studying a bunch of awesome new gadgets, and with Iron Man keeping an eye on the Worldwide Engineering Brigade, surely everything will go great, right? Either way, thanks to his newfound friends, Spider-Man is about to take his great power and responsibility across the globe. Unfortunately, where the wallcrawler goes, chaos usually follows! And Spidey and the W.E.B. are about to run into a prominent, green, angry example of chaos personified! Collecting W.E.B. OF SPIDER-MAN (2021) #1-5.
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
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Review
This missed the mark, sadly. Even though it was 5 issues long, it failed to flesh out the characters or adequately explain what was happening. It seemingly started plot threads and then forgot about them as the story progressed, and even though this is designed with young readers in mind, I feel it has done them a disservice. It also did a terrible job of making Peter Park seem like Superman, "Oh no trouble! Hey, where's Peter? Look, it's Spider-man". It is so lazy for a character like Spider-Man. He deserves better. Also, aren't these kids meant to be super bright? How can they not spot this?
The artwork was solid, some of the characters seemed a little random, and overall, I would give this an above-average meh on the review scale. You may like it, but I was left disappointed.
