The Diary of Spider-Man

by Unknown Author

Hardcover

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[Theediscerning]

A fair enough young Marvel story. This is what you'd expect – a diary from a young Peter Parker, as he learns his Spidey-skills, finds people looking like Vultures, Sand Men, and Octopuses, and so on. It's fairly obvious from the start there are issues with the formatting, though – for this is unlike a lot of diary-styled young readers and is pasted over a week-to-a-view journal. This means we get the obvious beats where homework and other things get in the way of the daily entry, but also means the word count is really low when you want a lot more combat detail. How can you dismiss the first fight with Doc Oc in what amounts to four lines?! Other fights just get mentioned and never once properly conveyed.

Still, there is an audience for such a story with deliberately restricted word count, and for them this is a win. The illustrations – both the fresh-from-the-spinner style ones that count as Peter's journalism photos, and the scribbles and doodles he produces with his own penmanship – are great, and this reads nicely. Oh, and once a month or so there is a little puzzle to join in with, although a lot are really easy. By the end you see something that is a little too arch in its foreshadowing, but that actually has been a decent bit of fun. With low expectations, come great marks – or rather, now that goodreads have discovered fractions, 3.75 stars, for if you don't demand wonders of this it is a success.

[A]

I received this ebook for free from Netgalley & Igloo Books.

This time I had to use my PC instead of my phone, as my phone decided it was the best time to act up. The art looked good, but I couldn't zoom in to get its true quality. The doodles of a young boy coupled with newspaper clippings, letters, pictures and his thoughts. I noticed that it was solely in black and white, which appears to be by design.

Unlike my previous review, TMNT: Casey Jones, I'm well versed with the Spider-Man comics. This was a retelling of Spider-Man's Year 1 in diary form. Bless his little heart, he was so optimistic in the beginning, I knew he would not be able to accomplish all his goals. We get to see his growth as Spider-Man, and how much it affected him as Peter Parker. This version of Peter Parker's quite young and optimistic, while clearly struggling to juggle his two lives.

I did like the mini puzzle/games in the comic, they were fun to solve. We're introduced to some of Spidey's rogue gallery, and some other future important folks.

This was a good entry comic for young fans to get into Spider-Man, they will be able to relate to him more. Peter Parker is just a kid trying to do right because with gre–... Nah, I wrote write the line. Kudos to the writer, Ned Hartley and illustrators, Mark Bagley (comic) & Jon Davis (doodles) for effectively giving us this version of Peter Parker.

[Steph]

This is a household that loves Spidey, so when I saw this in the supermarket, I knew I needed to get it! This is going to be perfect in the classroom (I know kids love Spider-Man too!) In this, you get a year in the life of Peter Parker as he tries to juggle school work, being a superhero, being a good person and dealing with general life. Told in miniature diary entries (which have his voice spot on), this is brilliantly readable and such fun! Some cameos from some of Spider-Man’s favourite (and least favourite) characters. I really enjoyed this!

[luce]

i love peter parker’s brain. he’s such a dork i love him.