Spider-Man #2

Spider-Man (2016) (Single Issues)

by Brian Michael Bendis

The Avengers are down and Miles Morales stands alone against a villain with the power to destroy the universe. More importantly, his grades are in the toilet.

Genres: Comics, Spider Man, Marvel, Graphic Novels

20 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 2, 2016

About the author

A comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics. For over eight years Bendis’s books have consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the nationwide comic and graphic novel sales charts.

Though he started as a writer and artist of independent noir fiction series, he shot to stardom as a writer of Marvel Comics' superhero books, particularly Ultimate Spider-Man.

Bendis first entered the comic world with the "Jinx" line of crime comics in 1995. This line has spawned the graphic novels Goldfish, Fire, Jinx, Torso (with Marc Andreyko), and Total Sell Out. Bendis is writing the film version of Jinx for Universal Pictures with Oscar-winner Charlize Theron attached to star and produce.

Bendis’s other projects include the Harvey, Eisner, and Eagle Award-nominated Powers (with Michael Avon Oeming) originally from Image Comics, now published by Marvel's new creator-owned imprint Icon Comics, and the Hollywood tell-all Fortune and Glory from Oni Press, both of which received an "A" from Entertainment Weekly.

Bendis is one of the premiere architects of Marvel's "Ultimate" line: comics specifically created for the new generation of comic readers. He has written every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man since its best-selling launch, and has also written for Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate X-Men, as well as every issue of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Origin and Ultimate Six.

Brian is currently helming a renaissance for Marvel’s AVENGERS franchise by writing both New Avengers and Mighty Avengers along with the successful ‘event’ projects House Of M, Secret War, and this summer’s Secret Invasion.

He has also previously done work on Daredevil, Alias, and The Pulse.

Reviews

[Terence · Rating 4 out of 5]

Miles and Peter have a talk about the name Spider-Man.

This issue was fun. It captures the energy of the teenage super-hero who is unsure of himself and also seems to have more homework than he can do while fighting crime. The homework part gets a bit dull for me, but I do remember always having homework in high school and college. Miles is a fun character and I enjoy reading about him.

I do wish Marvel would ease off having to mention they have minority heroes in the comic books themselves. I've seen that a few different times and it's getting old. I don't need a page wasted to have characters discuss the fact that there are minority heroes.

All in all Spider-Man #2 was really good.

[Sierra the Nerdgirl · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75 Stars

Honestly, I'm not entirely sold. Don't know if I will continue these or not.

[Dennis Brock · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very Good. Can I say again ((I'll always love Peter Parker)) but I ALSO really love Miles Morales. It works. And not because of some political correctness thing. I hate any tokenism in comics/movies/TV. Give us solid story and things work. We dont need forced diversity or forced representation because of some SJW agenda. But give us great story first, and diversity and representation can flow naturally. Miles is awesome!

[inhonoredglory · Rating 5 out of 5]

Adore the ‘chibi’ ish Spider-Man doubles section in this, and Bendis’ writing always shines with heart n humor. I love the addressing of the issue of his being a ‘black’ Spider-Man and how it shouldn’t be about labels but just identity.

[Airy Peña-Camacho · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5/5

Esta nueva entrada nos habla de como los superheroes clásicos están coexistiendo con los nuevos, como es que Miles Morales recibe la bendición de Peter Parker para también defender Nueva York, y como es que los villanos ya derrotados por Peter podrían tratar de volver a atacar.
Ademas se toca en este mismo universo lo mismo que nosotros nos cuestionamos hoy en día
¿un Spider-Man negro? ¿Thor Mujer?

Entretenido, emocionante y original.
Listisima para el próximo numero.

[Stacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this. Art is lovely. The flashback and some of the plot devices were choppy, though. The timing of characters being conscious, not conscious...etc. I can write it off because it is a comic and these are common tropes, but this time around I noticed them more than I have before. Still on board with the series.

[DéShawn Fairbairn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exciting fun for spidey,social media

I really enjoy reading this series. It follow today's trends and more importantly encapsulates the new spideys culture. What's most important here is the big secret which blows up on social media. You're in for a treat.

[TrillDRACULA · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall a fun issue but a little bit of a letdown. I love the social issues the series is already addressing.

[Yuri Dratxenko · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mola, mola, mola mucho.

[Dominique · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ok, I'm liking Miles' spiderman. This should be interesting :)