The first episode begins when Peter, who has just lost his uncle and who takes responsibility for the death, accumulates the wrestling matches under the pseudonym of "Spiderman" to make money, for the sole purpose, for now, to provide for his old "Aunt May" widowed. This first episode and follows in the footsteps of a mini-series back in 2008 by David Lapham and Tony Harris: Spider-Man: With Great Power ....
Subsequent episodes see the young "in Monte-air" faced with an enemy named "Clash". This is a young marginal student, former fan of "Spidey" who, disappointed by his idol, decides to become himself a superhero with his gifts for sound inventions ...
Total Overhead continuity: Dan Slott offers a reinterpretation of early career of "Spiderman" exploring behind the scenes, that is to say everything that was not told at the time by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in the pages of the first episodes of the series. It develops the events between the lines (or between the boxes!) Original episodes imagining the intimate life of Peter Parker and his first procrastination entant superhero apprentice. This is a good starting point, because this story is working to develop which, in the original version of 1962 was suggested in a handful of vignettes.
We follow and the inner thoughts of the main character. We live its existential questions from within, by finding that learning this new existence to be exceptional -but differ- is not easy. The young Peter begins by rejecting the idea of using its powers, refused to assume and constantly trying to circumvent its new responsibilities.
This narrative element is the best part of this replay, which thus develops the events of the original mythology of the character with more maturity and depth that had done at the time, the authors of the series, while lighting a whole section of this mythology that had not yet told us as much detail.
The second important point of this mini-series is the advent of the character named "Clash", a brand new "villain" in the tradition of the original villains of the series, but is needed more directly as a "double" of our heroes, both entant civilian character (both are marginal students, mocked by their peers), and both entant that superman costume (the range of "Clash" posing as a kind of "negative" from that of "Spiderman").
This component is a bit less interesting than the previous one because it gives off a repeat of perfume. It was soon feel here and there, this story has been told us repeatedly (eg in Amazing Spider-Man by JMS - Ultimate Collection Book 3 or in Spider-Man's Tangled Web - Volume 1).
In reality, this retro-going operation has a slightly fictitious dimension since Dan Slott has not imagined the past of this new character innocently. The writer has in fact scheduled a return to the current series (following the return of the hero after the events of the saga Superior Spider-Man, and operating an extension of this rereading the long term ...
In doing so, fabric slightly Slott mythology of his character in the taking from its origins and by linking to back-continuous events, much as was done with his Ed Brubaker Captain America.
The shaping of its episodes is by against too much in-between (not to say "between two stools"), because Ramon Perez cheek Steve Ditko and Dan Slott too often seeks to regain some form of naive to not be too out of step with the episodes of 1962, while practicing a more modern narrative. His soliloquies (inner monologue of the character) thus replace the thought bubbles but sham. That is to say, they are placed in a form filling, to fill the gaps, plug a lazy storytelling, not to complete cutting (they have the same role as the thoughts of bubbles without becoming conceptual as in a Frank Miller, where soliloquies and cutting operating a narrative merger and result in a sequential rhythm).
Perez drawings are properly awful. The characters look terrible (Peter Parker and Aunt May have never been so ugly!). Trying to see the style of Ditko, Perez does not much spoiled us aesthetically. And we still despair, something like proofreading of the first adventures of "Spiderman", to find retro success, conceptual, exceptional aesthetics and narrative of a mini-series like Spider-Man: Blue ...
