I’ll confess; I’m a Spider-Fan.
Peter Parker, Mary Jane Watson, May Parker, Eddie Brock, J. Jonah Jameson, Betty Brant, Flash Thompson, etc. are names I grew up with.
Venom, Sandman, Doctor Octopus, Green Goblin, Carnage, Vulture, and Rhino are the villains I feared as a kid coming into my room to beat me up, not the boogie-man.
And while I don’t think I ever had Spider-Man underwear, I know I had the issue that started the Maximum Carnage storyline, and a hologram cover for “Amazing Spider-Man #300.”
I grew out of comics when I moved to Texas, many years ago, and only recently jumped back into that world after a long hiatus, but, oh, what I’ve missed.
It’s the stories that can be contained in a single issue, or spread out over dozen. Characters that grow and change over time, but never lose what makes them great. Fantastic worlds, people with amazing powers, and struggles that can be as big as the cosmos, or as real as smoothing over a troubled relationship can be in any issue of the book.
Spider-Man has all the best elements of comics, and I’m super excited about the upcoming Spider-Man 3.
I’ll be counting down for the next ten days, posting a little each day until the premiere of Spider-Man 3.
Stay tuned, true believers!
