Spider-Man: Blue (a review)

Alright, confession time: I’m not a Spider-Man fan.

I don’t hate the guy, I’m just not a huge fan. When I was a little girl, I really like the Spider-Girl series by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz and I saw a couple of episodes of the 90s Spider-Man cartoon but that’s it. Spider-Man was never integral to my childhood or my current comic tastes. Maybe he’s too mainstream for my weird-ass self. Maybe it’s because I think teenagers as a whole are annoying and Spider-Man was a teenager for a good chunk his run (and yes, that annoyance extends to my past teenage self). Maybe I saw too much of myself in him or he reminds me too much of one of my ex-boyfriends.

……No further comment on that last sentence.

With all that in mind, I went into Spider-Man: Blue, released between 2002–2003 by Marvel, determined to put my bias aside and understand why he’s well-liked by comic book fans.

Loeb and Sale return for this series and they aim for an aspect in Spidey’s life that’s surprisingly forgotten today: Peter Parker’s relationship with Gwen Stacy in the midst of his career as Spider-Man. We get Spider-Gwen and Gwen-Pool shoved in our throats so much that we forget about OG…