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I Remember Stan - A Review of "I Remember Gwen" From Amazing Spider-Man #365

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  In the summer of 2015, a 14 year old kid went to the Boston Comic-Con to meet someone they thought was one of the greatest comic writers they’ve ever known. He was known for being a grandfather figure, and was one of the few comic book creators that lived since the golden age of comics. The kid went to the meetup, and there he was, Stan Lee. Photo by Gage Skidmore Stan Lee, born Stanley Martin Lieber, was born on December 28th, 1922. He broke into comics as an assistant to Joe Simon for Timely Comics in 1939, at age 17. His cousin, Jean, was married to the publisher of Timely Comics, one Martin Goodman, whose ideas on comics were basic at best. Meanwhile Joe Simon and artist Jack Kirby were creating Captain America. Timely’s first really iconic hero, who fought the Nazis and stood for the people…when he wasn't being cloned by Hydra. Stan’s first ever story was a Prose in Captain America Comics #3, which also introduces his iconic shield. The story was called “Captain Americ...
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Spider-Man: Chapter One - Misunderstood or Understood Well Enough?

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  Sometimes it’s best to never meet your heroes. I had a lot of those…all of those turned out to be bad people…except for Denzel Washington. One of these heroes was none other than John Byrne. Photo by Luigi Novi John Byrne was once one of the great superstar artists of our time. He first got work as an artist for Marvel in the mid ‘70s when writer Chris Claremont saw his work in Charlton Comics and wanted to work with him on Iron Fist, a series in the “Marvel Premiere” series of books. After all that, he worked on Avengers, The Champions, and Marvel Team-Up. The Team-Up books were written by Claremont, and the duo would later work together on the best X-Men books of all time. The Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past, still considered the best X-Men stories in their entire 60 year run.  Claremont and Byrne were essentially the Stan and Jack of the 80s, because they teamed up a lot. My Stan and Jack duo was Bendis and Bagley. Eventually, John Byrne would leave the X-Men ...
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The Black Cover.

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Back on Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, a tragedy occurred. Two planes were hijacked by terrorists, who then crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York City. This event changed the world forever, and society swore to never forget. It was unexpected for the US; it was unexpected for everyone. I wasn't born yet, but I've heard stories from a lot of people who were there when it happened. It seems like everyone remembers where they were on 9/11. This real-world event interrupted a lot of things, and one of them was the Amazing Spider-Man comic series. Now, the Marvel Universe is always described as "The world outside your window", what happens in the real world also happens in the Marvel U, and you get to see how the various characters react to what happens in the real world. Marvel HQ is in New York, and a lot of their characters live in NYC. Spider-Man is a New York icon and pretty much a worldwide icon, so J. Michael Straczynski and John Romita Jr. made a com...
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Fuck you, fucking piece of shit.

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 GWENPOOL 5. BY CAVAN SCOTT AND STEFANO NESI. I couldn't leave the series unfinished, could I? Let's take a look at this shit.  The cover looks like shit. That's it. There was no variant to review. Gwenpool (Stacy) or whatever her stupid name was is telling that one guy with the red X on his face that everyone is dead... I don't recall Kate Bishop dying but I don't like remembering this series. Whatever, Gwen (Stacy) and the red X dude start fighting until... Get this...  CYBORG GWENPOOL SHOWS UP. If this were any other comic, I'd be laughing... No, just kidding, I'd still be pretty fucking confused. And then Spider-Man shows up... Why isn't he a cyborg?  And Kate Bishop also shows up. And Jeff.  And then- and then, the X guy is unmasked to reveal... Cavan Scott. Woooooow. How creative, Cavan, write yourself saying how much you hated writing the series... You didn't have to write it like this. Whatever, Cavan hurts Gwen's feefees and then everyon...
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Spider-Man Fortnite.

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Fortnite is literally one of the greatest things to ever exist, ever. This is common knowledge, much like how Spider-Man is also pretty great. So why not put him in Fortnite? It's a pretty amazing idea but, for some fuck all reason, it took YEARS. Like, they started collabing with Marvel, right? At some point, pretty early in the game's life. Y'know, for fun. Mostly for money but for fun. They did a limited time game mode where you just GOTTA be the first one to get the infinity gauntlet. Upon getting it you into Thanos, becoming very powerful and strong so no person could ever stop you, ever. I think, honestly I'm doing this off memory and stuff I watched on YouTube since I never played the mode. Sounds fun, maybe.  Made some shitty old skins based off Star Lord and Black Widow. Except, like, they didn't make new models for them. They're just reused from their original skins, slap something together, and there's your fuck...
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FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

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PART 4. GWENPOOL. CAVAN SCOTT. STEFANO NESI. I'm aware of the fact that I said I wasn't gonna look at the original cover, but this one's interesting because it shows us something that happens in the book... Gwen Stacy holding a dead Spider-Man. I do not like how Chad Hardin draws eye lenses for Spider-Man OR Gwenpool. My point from the last fucking review still stands, how the fuck am I supposed to be shocked by this if you show me what happens on the fucking cover? At least the JMS Spidey covers kept things from us, sure, they were bland but they didn't tell you what to expect. Let's remember the Amazing Spider-Man 121 cover, it showed us a bunch of faces telling us that someone was gonna die but didn't explicitly tell us who. I'm not saying you can't show important events in your cover but please don't show events that are TOO important, sure, you can tell us what to expect, but maybe not for character deaths. If everyone fucking dies, what's t...
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