Miyazawa’s Ultimate Spider-man

14Apr10

Now I had read a year or so ago that they performed a little re-boot on the Spider-man comic books, literally starting the character over again. I wasn’t reading comics anymore, so I had no right to be angry… but I was. As I read the article I sat back and thought about my younger days of reading back-issues of Amazing Spider-man that I would find as small pocket-size paperbacks at the library… yes, I was supposed to be looking for real books, blame the local library system in Indianapolis. Sorry, let’s get back on focus here. So I started thinking about what attracted me to the Spider-man character… obviously it was the fact that he was a kid; he was young and stressed and flawed, and that spoke to me. I loved watching the character come into his own and have his first encounters with The Fantastic Four, The Avenger, Wolverine, The Hulk… it was awesome. Spider-man was a fan of many of the heroes and as a reader I could feed off of his excitement. And as I realized all of this I began to see why they would start Spider-man over again; for the younger generation to feel the same excitement I felt. So I let it go.

Then, I ran across a few pics online of the “Mary Jane Loves Spider-man”, done by this artist named MIYAZAWA. I was hooked. He was, and is, one of my favorite new comic book artist. I love the innocent of his style and (this is going to sound weird) how you can almost read the characters by the body language of their fingers and inward-turned feet. He captured the innocence of high school and young love very well.

Therefore, now committed to reading comics again, I ran out and purchased “Ultimate Spider-man” No# 8. Again, it reminded me of my childhood, even to the point of having Spider-man living with Ice-man and The Human Torch… obviously a throwback to the animated series “Spider-man and His Amazing Friends”, which everyone my age watched EVERY Saturday morning. If you haven;t seen it, I think they still air on Disney or Cartoon Network or one of those animated heavy channels… worth the viewing. This was Spider-man pre Venom, pre marriage, pre college drop-out, pre Kraven suicide. Very light and charming, much like Ultimate Spider-man.

Definitely worth checking out.

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