Peter Parker was originally bitten by a radio active spider in Amazing Fantasy #15 published i 1962. He was fifteen years old. I was five. In 2021 peter Parker seems to be around 29/30 like most "human" super-hero types. I'm now 63. Time works differently in the Marvel Universe we are told.
Spider-Man was older than me when he started out, now he's younger. That's just how comics work. For me and most fans that's fine. I hope that new readers in the years to come enjoy reading the adventures of heroes like Peter, Clark, Bruce and the others in familiar settings to them long after I've gone.
But what if it didn't........
What if the heroes aged as we do. How would their stories have panned out?
That is the premise of this story originally published as a six issue mini-series back in 2019. That's how things develop here with the world as it was and is in the Marvel Universe behind the lives of Peter Parker, His friends, loves and Aunt May.
As Peter grows up Iron Man is active in the Vietnam War whilst peter, still a student "simply" fights crime on the street. Should he do more and set a example. His old nemesis "Flash" Thompson does go to Vietnam and dies for his country as he thinks it's what Spider-Man would do.
Peter marries and still confronts the Green Goblin, walks a lonely life and as each chapter takes us through another decade Peter ages as do the others. Tony Stark becomes the menace we all expect in the Civil War but there's more. How will Petey's life finally end. This is his entire life story after all.
Six chapters covering six decades with the most interesting of premises. One that could eventually be applied to other denizens of the Marvel Universe. The Fantastic Four being probably the best bet after all they along with Spidey form the basis of all that Marvel is, was and will ever be.
Give this is the third printing by Panini in the UK this story has attracted a lot of positive attention. If you have yet to read this wonderful tome please add it to your list!
Rating 5 Stars Plus
I wasn't aware of this comic, it looks good so I will be searching this one out .
ReplyDelete