Spider-Man Noir (2020) #1

Spider-Man Noir (2020)

by Margaret Stohl, Juan Ferreyra (Artist), Dave Rapoza (Cover Art)

MURDER AND MYSTERY IN THE MIGHTY MARVEL MANNER! DATELINE, 1939! As the specter of war looms on the horizon, SPIDER-MAN: NOIR fights the good fight at home, stopping the injustices of a more friendlyneighborhood variety. But after a dame is murdered at The Black Cat nightclub and all clues point overseas, Spidey will have no choice but to board the next flight to Europe and kick off a globetrotting adventure through yesteryear of the Marvel Universe!

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Spider Man, Comic Book, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Noir

22 pages, ebook

First published March 4, 2020

About the author

Margaret Stohl is the #1 New York Times, PW, USA Today, LA Times and Internationally bestselling co-author or author of twelve books, including the BEAUTIFUL CREATURES NOVELS, the DANGEROUS CREATURES NOVELS, the ICONS NOVELS, MARVEL'S BLACK WIDOW NOVELS, ROYCE ROLLS & CATS VS ROBOTS THIS IS WAR (forthcoming!) She writes the MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL comic for Marvel Comics (ongoing) and has contributed to countless videogames; currently, she is a Narrative Director at Bungie.

From the author:

Goodreads Peeps! Please note I no longer review the books on my shelf, "stars"-wise. I do list books I read, and they're all automatically marked as 5 stars. That's because a) I don't list books that I didn't like enough to finish and b) I didn't want to delete the ratings I had already given. If I particularly love a book and feel inclined to comment, you'll still see the comments here. Sadly, I have to ask: please don't reproduce these comments on book jackets, websites, or in any other medium for the marketing of books. They're only meant for fellow goodreaders. Thanks so much!

ABOUT ME:

Writing has gotten me in and out of trouble since I was 15 (back then, mostly just in trouble.) For 10 years, I designed &/or wrote for lots of video games, one of which was nominated for “Most Innovative Game Design,” but I lost to a rapping onion. If you know games you get why my two bad beagles are named Zelda and Kirby.

School: I spent more years in it than a person ever should, because let’s face it, reading books is so much better than having a job. I fell in love with American literature at Amherst and Yale, earned an MA in English from Stanford, and studied creative writing under the late great poet George MacBeth at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. I taught Intro to Film as a TA at Yale and Romantic Poetry as a TA at Stanford. Don’t tell the people at Yale but sometimes I taught the section before I’d seen the movie it was about...

I live in Santa Monica, CA, with my family, most of whom were enslaved into working with me in one form or another on my first YA book for Little, Brown. I’m not kidding; when my daughters wanted to go to school I said “Why are you so selfish? Get back in there and edit,” and by said I mean yelled and maybe threw things, it’s all a haze. Now the Beautiful series has wrapped, but you can see the movie on February 13, 2013 or read my new book ICONS on May 7th. Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy.

Reviews

[Panda Mother Supreme · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favourite Spider-man of all time!

[Álvaro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Soy fan de Spidey desde los 8 años más o menos, pero más que nada por la serie de TV. Ese niño de 8 años quedó muy en el pasado, pero gracias a la moda del cine y un poco de los videojuegos, nunca dejé de consumir el entrenamiento de Marvel.

Nunca leí nada de Spiderman Noir, es una cosa completamente distinta, un estilo que nada tiene que ver con lo que conozco de Marvel, pero que me gustó, y aunque este volumen te deja con más preguntas que certezas, también me dejó unas ganas tremendas de seguir mirando viñetas de un Peter Parker en los años '30.

[Spidernoirsleftboot · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really don't understand why people are hating on the 2020 spider noir comics, yes the story is confusing at times or the art style can look a little funny but as a whole theyre so well written, I love how noir's character is portrayed in these and the fact that spider-god is kept in the story unlike in into the spider-verse makes it even better. The people complaining clearly lack basic literacy skills or just don't understand spider-noir as a character.

[Liz (Quirky Cat) · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed Spider-Man Noir's appearance in the latest Spider-Verse run (the comics and the movie), so I was really excited to see this coming out. I can safely say that it did, in fact, live up to all of my expectations! This was highly entertaining, and did a great job of showcasing what this character has to offer.

[Joe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun!

[Leigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

It reads like a 1920s crime noir. I don't know how I feel about it at all. I might read the next one. It all just depends

[MrColdStream · Rating 3 out of 5]

War II-era stories and classic globetrotting soy thrillers are some of my favourite things. Combine that with Spider-Man and you should have a classic. Alas, this run just never didn't for me. The dialogue is heavy, the story hard to follow and there seems to be no clear goal with anything. The art is gorgeous though and it was nice seeing classic baddies reimagined.

[Parker · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a great globe-trotting story featuring everyone's favourite webhead taking on Nazis! What's not to love?

[Chad Bunch · Rating 4 out of 5]

A definite sleeper...