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A review by beaconatnight
Spider-Man: Blue by Tim Sale, Jeph Loeb
2.0
This is about Peter Parker mourning the death of Gwen Stacy by recording the story of their relationship on tape. Unfortunately, the way Peter tells the story there really wasn't any depth to their relation at all, and from the few glimpses that this comic gives us you get the feeling that there is a certain irony in Gwen's attitude towards him. No character development whatsoever. The story also desperately lacks some sort of climax or closure.
To be honest, I expected a lot more from the team of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, which is, among other things, responsible for the fantastic Batman: The Long Halloween. I somewhat liked the artwork, or at least how Spider-Man and his opponents look (especially the old Vulture looked pretty cool). But what's with Craven hunting Spider-Man by hiring Spidy's classical villains to kill him? The twist that Craven was behind all that was just ridiculous, not to mention that the attacks interwoven with what is happening in Peter Parker's life seemed just completely irrelevant. Other than this one sentence "I could never get to know you because I was always busy being a superhero" (or something along those lines), so maybe this is the reason why his narration is so impoverished?
To be honest, I expected a lot more from the team of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, which is, among other things, responsible for the fantastic Batman: The Long Halloween. I somewhat liked the artwork, or at least how Spider-Man and his opponents look (especially the old Vulture looked pretty cool). But what's with Craven hunting Spider-Man by hiring Spidy's classical villains to kill him? The twist that Craven was behind all that was just ridiculous, not to mention that the attacks interwoven with what is happening in Peter Parker's life seemed just completely irrelevant. Other than this one sentence "I could never get to know you because I was always busy being a superhero" (or something along those lines), so maybe this is the reason why his narration is so impoverished?