Удивительный Человек-Паук. Новые способы жить

The Amazing Spider-Man (1999) (Collected Editions) #30-31

by Fred Van Lente, Brian Reed, Joe Kelly

Хамелеон вернулся, и у него новое задание… в этот раз на мушке мэр Джей Джона Джеймсон! Антипаучий отряд Джей Джей Джея всё сильнее портит жизнь Пауку, но Питер Паркер получает новую работу! Сблизит ли это его с Мэри Джейн, недавно вернувшейся в город? А также: берегись, Паучок… Чёрная Кошка тоже здесь, и она куда опаснее, чем раньше! Тем временем Раптор пытается отомстить человеку, который, по его мнению, убил его семью: Бену Рейли, клону Человека-паука! А ещё: Эдди Брок находит новый способ жить… будучи Анти-Веномом! Появление Джекпот! И нападение Дэдпула!

В книгу входят комиксы "Удивительный Человек-паук" #602-611, "Человек-паук: химический роман", "Человек-паук: корень всех бед", "Удивительный Человек-паук представляет: Анти-Веном. Новые способы жить" #1-3, "Удивительный Человек-паук представляет: Джекпот" #1-3, материалы из "Паутины Человека-паука" (2009) #1 и "Удивительной семьи Человека-паука" #6.

Genres: Spider Man, Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels

480 pages, Hardcover

First published March 27, 2019

About the author

Fred Van Lente is the New York Times-bestselling author of comics as varied as Archer & Armstrong (Harvey Award nominee, Best Series), Taskmaster, MODOK's 11, Amazing Spider-Man, Conan the Avenger, Weird Detective, and Cowboys & Aliens (upon which the 2011 movie was based), as well as the novels Ten Dead Comedians and The Con Artist.

Van Lente also specializes in entertaining readers with offbeat histories with the help of his incredibly talented artists. He has written the multiple-award winning Action Philosophers!, The Comic Book History of Comics, Action Presidents! (all drawn by Ryan Dunlavey), and The Comic Book Story of Basketball with Joe Cooper (Ten Speed September 2020).

He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Crystal Skillman, and some mostly ungrateful cats.

Reviews

[C.T. Phipps · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honestly, not great. I bought this because of Black Cat and my obsessive love for the fictional character. However, she is a bit of a shallow representation of herself being little more than typical flirts and double entendres. The rest of the stories of the book also feel a bit off with Eddie Brock teaming up with the Punisher. I actually liked Eddie's obsessive desire to protect a prostitute named Jenna from herself but Frank was just a jerk. Neither of these two would tolerate the other's existence for long. Eddie also is at his most deranged. Silk and Jackpot also have big roles but neither of their stories impressed. Jackpot's story being a case of "women in refrigerators" with a surprising male fridging of an interesting character that just made Jackpot II (or is it I?) generic. It's okay but not great.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some pretty solid Spider-Man stories. I'm not sure how these issues fit into the larger Spidey canon, but I did enjoy learning more about some aspects (such as JJJ as mayor and the whole Ben Reilly thing). Some stories were definitely darker than I expected--like the Chameleon suffocating people and then dissolving them in acid! But then there were moments with good ole Spidey fun (such as the one where money from a bank robbery kept magically coming back to him). Some stories didn't focus on Spidey at all--like the ones with Anti-Venom and Punisher and then the stories with Jackpot. Those were still interesting and worth reading, though. I don't know much about Anti-Venom, and Jackpot provided a look into the wider Marvel universe, while still having a connection to Spidey. All in all... a nice collection. Not my favorite Spidey stories, but still worth checking out.

[José Oyervides]

awensome, almost porn comic

[Corey · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed getting more Black Cat again! Kane - eh.

[Harrison Delahunty · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is going to be true of any collection with so many disparate stories crammed into it, but this one’s a hell of a mixed bag.

First off, I don’t know what Fred Van Lente’s damage is but his stories here are varied kinds of genuinely screwed up. He seems to think Michele as written by him is charming, but she comes off as a horrible abusive sociopath. Chameleon sexually assaults and/or rapes her and that just gets basically handwaved away. In general, the way this guy writes women is pretty gross.

Joe Kelly’s story with Black Cat are a lot of fun. I don’t really know at what point McKone’s art went a bit off, but more often than not his Spider-Man looks like an overgrown child with a bobblehead and it’s really off-putting. He went from being one of my favourite artists of the Brand New Day years to the most mixed.

JMD’s Web of Spider-Man issue feels like he phoned the writing in hard and it’s still good. Even when the guy’s not trying his stories still manage to have soul.

ASM 608-610 feature Adi Granov on covers and Marco Checchetto on interiors, so they’re each artistic home runs. They’re written by Guggenheim though, so the narrative is take it or leave it.

611 is an out-of-nowhere Deadpool one-off. I haven’t been big on Deadpool since high school, but this showed me that in a small dose he can be fun. Eric Canete’s art is highly stylised and it mostly hits for me.

“A Chemical Romance” and “The Root of All Annoyance” are both fun little popcorn comics. Michael Ryan’s art on the latter is especially dynamic.

Both of the three-issue ASM Presents stories are very skippable. Frankly, I don’t care much about Anti-Venom or Jackpot.

Overall, it’s hard to find any sort of consistency or real through-line when so much of this collection is trying to do wildly different stuff. At least, aside from certain bits from Lente’s work (Jesus, man), none of it outright offensive.