![]() ![]() It fired my imagination and impressed me with the nuances it explores in superhero and villain roles. SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #1 is actually confusing for different reasons than I expected, and not always in negative ways. I’ve never fallen for the idea that a renumbering meant that it was going to be any easier to “jump on board” with continuities that were already immense and tangled, so I was prepared to be confused. ![]() Putting aside the media frenzy, which also entailed plenty of speculation about how altering the Spider-Man mythology might impact the newly rebooted Spider-Man films, I picked up a copy of THE SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #1. ![]() Surprisingly, the big outcry on social media was that Otto, in Peter’s body, might get to make a move on Mary Jane Watson, not the idea that a villain might be able to walk around the streets with a superheroic safeguard for his covertly dastardly actions. I thought it was worth a shot, and certainly had that ring of originality, something superhero comics hadn’t seen in exactly that form before. ![]()
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