SuperHeroBooks - Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours
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Manufacturer: Pocket Star
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781416510680
ISBN: 1416510680
Label: Pocket Star
Manufacturer: Pocket Star
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2006-06-27
Publisher: Pocket Star
Studio: Pocket Star
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Summary: Innuendo ahoy!
Comment: I read all of these Marvel paperbacks, and this one was better than a lot of them. This passage alone pretty much makes it worth it:
"Don't worry, MJ," Felicia said with a feline smile. "It won't be like with Peter, but I'll get you there."
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Summary: Loved it!
Comment: I've been a Spider-Man fan for years and Jim has done the web head total justice in this novel. JB's snarky style was perfect for Spidey.
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Summary: Loved the book!
Comment: Dialogue is wonderful and hilarious (For instance, Spidey asking Dr. Strange why he can't just magically fix his fractured wrist: "For you, isn't this just a bibbity-bobbity boo-boo?")...characterization, dead on...plot, well thought out...writing outstanding.
I highly recommend!
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Summary: Super Reader
Comment: This is pretty good, in fact, I like it more than the couple of Dresden files books out there.
After encountering the Rhino, Spidey learns that Morlun wasn't the only one of his kind, and there are three more of them coming. Luckily, he has help. The Black Cat is around, and doesn't want the Spider eaten, and Doctor Strange offers some sneaky help that isn't help, and a nice sandiwch thanks to Wong.
When the Rhino's employers, the Ancients, turn on him, and Spidey saves his grey leathery hide, he agrees to help the pair of heroes with their plan.
I have actually read a trade recently of Spider-Man fighting the Morlun guy, so perhaps that was fortuitous, as I haven't read much of him for a long time, but this book is definitely enjoyable, wry, amusing, action packed, altruistic, and other stuff.
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Summary: Fun, Surprisingly Well Written First-Person Narrative!
Comment: I have been aching to read another Spidey novel since the ones written in late 90s. I am a huge fan, however the last five years until J. Michael Straczynski wrote Amazing.
I knew of Butch from Dresden files, underrated show but worried how he'd write Spiderman especially knowing it would be a First-Person narrative! HOWEVER I was most thankfully surprised! He is a true fan and does Parker and the Spiderman universe and characters proudly!
I LOVED this book being different, being a first person narrative (don't see that often in ANY books these days) let alone a Marvel Book. But Butcher captures Peter's insatiable wit to the tee and at the same time his genuine humbleness.
Many moments I laughed out loud, Butcher REALLY got into the essence of Spidey/Peter's character! The action is heavy, but there is a nice B plot with Peter being a fill in coach, and his relationship with MJ does not disappoint. There IS depth here, it's no Dicken's obviously but it doesn't need to be.
The characters are drawn out nicely, have depth and psychological impact. Even the Rhino gets his horns into some sympathetic meat!
Butcher deliver's a fun, insightful, caring and engrossing novel here. It DOES have psychological depth and deeper more meanigful and more personal themes than most other Spidey novels I've read.
I REALLY hope Butcher will do ANOTHER FIRST PERSON SPIDEY narrative!
It was such a treat to read being First Person, I must say. And Butcher (repeating myself =) is so good at it!
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Peter Parker's life has hit a peaceful stretch. No evildoers have tried to flatten him in weeks, his marriage to Mary Jane isstronger than ever, and he's enjoying his job as a high schoolscience teacher. Life is good. Naturally, that doesn't last. When Peter learns that his old enemy the Rhino is on a rampage in Times Square, he suits up as Spider-Man to stop the destructive villain in his tracks. But he's unexpectedly foiled in his attempts by the Black Cat, a former ally and old flame. The Cat informs Peter that the Rhino is just a distraction -- the real threat comes from a group of Ancients, members of the same race as the being called Morlun, who Spidey defeated in battle years earlier. The Ancients are now looking to exact revenge -- and hope to steal Spider-Man's life force in the process. To defeat such powerful beings, Spider-Man is going to need all the help he can get, especially from the Black Cat. But what will Mary Jane Parker have to say about that? Peter isn't sure which is worse -- the Ancients trying to drain his life force, or the wrath of a jealous wife....
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