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Marvel Comics from Diamond Distributors for August 11, 2021

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Review: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN No. 1 / #802 (2018)
MARVEL COMICS – @Marvel

[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]

STORY: Nick Spencer
PENCILS: Ryan Ottley; Humberto Ramos
INKS: Cliff Rathburn; Victor Olazaba
COLORS: Marte Gracia; Edgar Delgado
LETTERS: VC's Joe Caramagna
EDITOR: Nick Lowe
COVER: Ryan Ottley with Laura Martin
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Shane Davis and Michelle Delecki with Morry Hollowell; John Romita, Sr. and Terry Austin with Jason Keith; Erik Larsen with Dean White (Remastered); Jim Cheung with Justin Ponser; Greg Land with Jason Keith
56pp, Color, $5.99 U.S. (September 2018)

Rated  “T”

Spider-Man created by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee

“Back to Basics” Part One

Here we go.  Back in the summer, Marvel Comics published yet another The Amazing Spider-Man #1, but the publisher did not jettison its “Legacy” numbering.  So this new #1 comic book is also The Amazing Spider-Man #802.

It is a fresh start, of sorts, with a new creative team.  Nick Spencer is the new series writer.  The new art team is Ryan Ottley (pencils) and Cliff Rathburn (inks).  Laura Martin is on colors, and Joe Caramagna is on letters.

The Amazing Spider-Man #1 finds Peter Parker still trying to get his life back together in the wake of the crash and burn of his company, Parker Industries.  He shares an apartment with roommates, and he has reconnected with M.J. - Mary Jane Watson.  But something is wrong.  People are giving him the side eye, when they aren't being outright hostile and dismissive.  And he and the Avengers are in the middle of a massive alien invasion.  Is there a conspiracy against Peter Parker and Spider-Man?

I enjoyed Dan Slott's run on The Amazing Spider-Man.  Of course, I only experienced the second half of Slott's long tenure on the title, and I understand that some readers and fans were ready for Marvel to move on from him.

I don't know if readers are satisfied now, but I like this almost tripled-sized issue.  Without reverting Peter Parker to childhood, Spencer takes Peter Parker back to the days when he suffered the bane of a hero's existence – no good deed goes unpunished.  Indirectly and directly and by action and inaction, Parker and Spider-Man are causing trouble for the people for whom they care.  Obviously, there is a lot of dramatic tension and conflict.  Still, Spencer writes a light-hearted comic book with both wry humor and dark undertones.

Ryan Ottley, known for his long run on Robert Kirkman's Invincible (Image Comics), is the perfect Spider-Man comic book artist, for now.  He reminds me of Mark Bagley on Ultimate Spider-Man, and, at the time (late 2000), both that comic book and Bagley were much needed breaths of fresh air for the Spider-Man franchise.  Ottley recalls the past while being something different, essentially an indie superhero comic book artist taking on a venerable mainstream superhero franchise.  Ottley is back to basics without being retro.

Cliff Rathburn on inks accentuates the newness of Ottley's clean pencil art.  Laura Martin's colors seems out of place, too heavy for Ottley and Rathburn's illustrations.  There is nothing distinctive about Joe Caramagna's lettering.  At least, it seems that way to me.

Former Amazing Spider-Man series artist, Humberto Ramos, delivers a killer back-up story.  With his striking illustrative style, Ramos usually presents potent storytelling, and his tale enforces my belief that this Amazing relaunch could be something special... at least for awhile.

8 out of 10

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"


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Marvel Comics from Diamond Distributors for July 11, 2018

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Review: GENERATIONS: Sam Wilson Captain America & Steve Rogers Captain America #1

GENERATIONS: SAM WILSON CAPTAIN AMERICA & STEVE ROGERS CAPTAIN AMERICA No. 1
MARVEL COMICS – @Marvel

[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]

STORY: Nick Spencer
ART: Paul Renaud
COLORS: Laura Martin
LETTERS: VC's Joe Caramagna
COVER: Paul Renaud
VARIANT COVERS: John Cassaday with Laura Martin; Paolo Rivera
36pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (November 2017)

Rated T+

Captain America and Steve Rogers created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby; Sam Wilson created by Stan Lee and Gene Colan

“The Americas”

The Marvel Comics event comic book, Generations, comes to an end with a tale of two Captain Americas.  A 10-issue anthology miniseries, published weekly, each issue is written and drawn by a different creative team, and each issue features a different team-up of a classic Marvel superhero with his or her modern-day counterpart.  The series is meant to unite the legacy of classic Marvel Comics superheroes with a new generation of heroes, as both the original characters and the new ones move into the future of Marvel Comics storytelling.

The tenth issue (by my account) is Generations: Sam Wilson Captain America & Steve Rogers Captain America, which brings together two versions of a classic Marvel Comics character, Captain America.  The first is the original Captain America, Steve Rogers.  Rogers first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 (cover date: March 1941).  The second is Sam Wilson who first appeared in Captain America #117 (cover date: September 1969), and who was originally the superhero, Falcon.  Wilson became Captain America and starred in the series, All-New Captain America #1 (2014).  This issue of Generations is written by Nick Spencer; drawn by Paul Renaud; colored by Laura Martin; and lettered by Joe Caramagna.

Generations: Sam Wilson Captain America & Steve Rogers Captain America #1 (“The Americas”) opens with Sam Wilson-Captain America being questioned by government agents about why a particular group of ten superheroes disappeared (including Wilson) during the “Battle of Washington” (as seen in the Secret Empire event).  Wilson disappeared and reappeared in the 1940s as the United States of America gears up to enter World War II.

Unlike the other nine heroes, Wilson spends a lifetime in the world to which he is transported.  When Wilson enters the war as an enlisted man, a special enlisted man, the “Man in the Air,” he meets his friend Steve Rogers, a young man trying to find his way as Captain America, so the question is will Sam Wilson also find his own path?

While reading the first nine issues of Generations, I found several that I liked and two that I called the best of the lot.  But Generations: Sam Wilson Captain America & Steve Rogers Captain America #1 takes the prize.  I wish Marvel would consider turning this into its own series; it could at least make an excellent, thought-provoking, twelve-issue series.

In this final issue of Generations, Nick Spencer delivers a Generations manifesto, which is this.  It is okay to have personal heroes and roles models.  It is okay to be inspired by someone's achievements.  Once you begin to take your own path, however, it is your own path, not your inspiration's path.  You don't have to live up to the legacy of another; make a legacy of your own that is worth living up to.

Artist Paul Renaud's compositions and art for this tenth Generations is both subtle and evocative.  He conveys a story that takes a trip down memory lane, but nevertheless reaches towards the future and its infinite possibilities.  Laura Martin's colors quietly amplifies the moods and emotions and summons the sense of each time period in which Sam Wilson travels.

Generations: Sam Wilson Captain America & Steve Rogers Captain America #1 brings Generations to a close on a high note that the earlier issues did not necessarily suggest.  As event miniseries go, this is one of those single issues that are worth remembering even when the overall event miniseries is only remembered for its central plot or concept.

A
9 out of 10

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"


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Marvel Comics from Diamond Distributors for January 7, 2015

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2012 Comic Book Bin Awards Announced

written by Leroy Douresseaux

I am also a writer and quasi-editor for the website, the Comic Book Bin. A few years ago, the Bin initiated the Binnies (or BINnies), the site’s very own comic book awards.

The guy behind Binnies is writer/editor, Zak Edwards, who announced the results of the 2012 Binnie Awards (the Third Annual Binnies) at the end of this past week:

http://www.comicbookbin.com/Welcome_to_the_2012_Binnie_Awards.html

Third Annual Binnie Awards Winners and runner-ups:

Best New Series: Saga
Runner-Up: Hawkeye

Best Mini-Series: Bedlam
Runner-Up: Before Watchmen: Minutemen

Best OGN: The Underwater Welder
Runner-Up: Wild Children

Best Anthology: Dark Horse Presents
Rocketeer Adventures 2

Best Ongoing Series: Batman
Runner-Up: Rachel Rising

Best Artist: Terry Moore
Runner-Up: Matt Kindt

Best Writer: Scott Snyder
Runner-Up: Jonathan Hickman

Best Comic Adaptation: The Avengers
Runner-Up: The Dark Knight Rises

Biggest Surprise/Best Moment: Death of Agent Coulson
Runner-Up: Marvel NOW!

Biggest Disappointment: DC Comics
Runner-Up: The Dark Knight Rises

Best Publisher: Image Comics
Runner-Up: Valiant


For your interest, dear reader, here, is how I voted:

Best Writer:
Chris Ware – Building Stories (Pantheon Books)

Best Artist:
Chris Ware – Building Stories

Best New Series (An ongoing series that debuted this year):
Bad Medicine by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir and Christopher Mitten (Oni Press)

Best Ongoing Series
Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto (VIZ Media)

Best Mini-Series (The series should have either started or ended this year):
The Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee with Scott Dunbier as editor (IDW)

Best OGN (original graphic novel):
Batman: Earth One by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank (DC Comics)

Best Anthology (we sometimes collapse this and OGN together if we can't fill up the space)
The Judas Coin by Walter Simonson (DC Comics)

Best Moment/Biggest Surprise
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (HarperCollins) – a history of Marvel Comics by Sean Howe

Biggest Disappointment:
The Dark Knight Rises (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Comic Adaptation:
The Avengers (Walt Disney Pictures/Marvel Studios)

Best Publisher
VIZ Media

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