EP0083: Amazing Spider-man: Renew Your Vows, Volume 3, Shadow/Batman, Patsy Walker: Hellcat, Nightwing, Volume 5
Oct 14, 2018 ·
22m
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It's a brand new format as discuss four different comics: * Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows Vol. 3: Eight Years Later * Shadow/Batman * Patsy Walker: Hellcat * Nightwing, Vol....
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It's a brand new format as discuss four different comics:
* Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows Vol. 3: Eight Years Later
* Shadow/Batman
* Patsy Walker: Hellcat
* Nightwing, Vol. 5: Raptor's Revenge
Affiliate links included.
Transcript:
Brace for a brand new format as we discuss not one but four different trade paperbacks: Spider-Man, Batman, the Shadow, Patsy Walker and Nightwing. We'll talk about them all straight ahead.
Welcome to the Classy Comics Podcast where we search for the best comics in the universe. From Boise, Idaho here is your host, Adam Graham.
This is the start of a brand new format. We begin the series with doing two episodes a week, generally covering one book per episode – though there were a couple episodes where we did go ahead and extend it out, and do multiple episodes for a single book. So now we're going to go through generally three to four different graphic novels/trade collections, and probably not go into detail as much so that we cover more books, and hopefully in a little bit less time. And we'll only be doing one episode a week. So we'll start out with Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, Volume Three eight year later.
The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows mini-series was a tie-in to the Secret Wars event and then it led to a series that was initially written by Spider-Man legend Jerry Conway, and with art by Ryan Stegman who took over the writing duties after Conway left. With Issue Thirteen Jody Houser took over the writing duties and it was decided to take the story of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Parker, and their daughter Annie eight years ahead. And I think there a lot of good reasons to move this story to when she's a teenager, just because there's so much more you can write about with a teenager in a series as they're facing so many choices about what direction they're going to take in life. So, I think this definitely had potential.
There are two stories in this volume which collect Issues Thirteen through Eighteen of the series. First three Issue arc eight years later finds the family going for a day off at Coney Island when the Lizard attacks and they all change into their costumes. While Spidey and Mary Jane have the same costumes they did previously, Annie AKA Spiderling has got a new costume and it looks nice. It plays on the classic Spider-Man design but with a greater emphasis on the blue, with just a few red accents like the webbing across her chest is blue. So, I think it's a good design. At any rate it turns out that the Lizard does have a reason for attacking, and that there are a bunch of people who are deformed or who would be identified as freaks who are imprisoned in the sewer, and so they have to fight to save them. It's not a bad story but it's also nothing special. There is one point in the story where Peter gives her a lecture about what it means to be a hero, and the type of decisions that heroes make and need to make, and the risk that they have to decide to take. That wouldn't be out of place if she was just starting off, but she's been doing this thing for eight years. So it doesn't feel like a particularly believable interaction.
The second story is, ‘Fast Times at Midtown High'. Peter gets a job teaching at Annie's high school – which is the same high school that Peter went to when he was a kid. Annie finds a couple of kids who have developed superpowers and lies to her dad about it, and decides that instead she's going to train with them and train them to be superheroes. However, things get out of hand and she ends up needing some help from her parents. I like this story.
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* Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows Vol. 3: Eight Years Later
* Shadow/Batman
* Patsy Walker: Hellcat
* Nightwing, Vol. 5: Raptor's Revenge
Affiliate links included.
Transcript:
Brace for a brand new format as we discuss not one but four different trade paperbacks: Spider-Man, Batman, the Shadow, Patsy Walker and Nightwing. We'll talk about them all straight ahead.
Welcome to the Classy Comics Podcast where we search for the best comics in the universe. From Boise, Idaho here is your host, Adam Graham.
This is the start of a brand new format. We begin the series with doing two episodes a week, generally covering one book per episode – though there were a couple episodes where we did go ahead and extend it out, and do multiple episodes for a single book. So now we're going to go through generally three to four different graphic novels/trade collections, and probably not go into detail as much so that we cover more books, and hopefully in a little bit less time. And we'll only be doing one episode a week. So we'll start out with Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, Volume Three eight year later.
The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows mini-series was a tie-in to the Secret Wars event and then it led to a series that was initially written by Spider-Man legend Jerry Conway, and with art by Ryan Stegman who took over the writing duties after Conway left. With Issue Thirteen Jody Houser took over the writing duties and it was decided to take the story of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Parker, and their daughter Annie eight years ahead. And I think there a lot of good reasons to move this story to when she's a teenager, just because there's so much more you can write about with a teenager in a series as they're facing so many choices about what direction they're going to take in life. So, I think this definitely had potential.
There are two stories in this volume which collect Issues Thirteen through Eighteen of the series. First three Issue arc eight years later finds the family going for a day off at Coney Island when the Lizard attacks and they all change into their costumes. While Spidey and Mary Jane have the same costumes they did previously, Annie AKA Spiderling has got a new costume and it looks nice. It plays on the classic Spider-Man design but with a greater emphasis on the blue, with just a few red accents like the webbing across her chest is blue. So, I think it's a good design. At any rate it turns out that the Lizard does have a reason for attacking, and that there are a bunch of people who are deformed or who would be identified as freaks who are imprisoned in the sewer, and so they have to fight to save them. It's not a bad story but it's also nothing special. There is one point in the story where Peter gives her a lecture about what it means to be a hero, and the type of decisions that heroes make and need to make, and the risk that they have to decide to take. That wouldn't be out of place if she was just starting off, but she's been doing this thing for eight years. So it doesn't feel like a particularly believable interaction.
The second story is, ‘Fast Times at Midtown High'. Peter gets a job teaching at Annie's high school – which is the same high school that Peter went to when he was a kid. Annie finds a couple of kids who have developed superpowers and lies to her dad about it, and decides that instead she's going to train with them and train them to be superheroes. However, things get out of hand and she ends up needing some help from her parents. I like this story.
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