What makes Issue 07 great? A lot of things. I wouldn’t have picked this issue out if I didn’t have a lot of good things to speak about this issue. All the boys will love this one cause it has a lot of action and very little emotional drama. But the majority of the comic reading audience is boys. I’ve met very few girls who are into comic books. And the ones who are, are usually artists or illustrators themselves.
Let’s begin. Our Spiderman, who is only 7 issues old, is also 15 years old and is still a beginner Spiderman. So, he hasn’t yet learned how to swing across the city with his newly developed Spider-web. And this is his first Supervillain fight, for which he is much too inexperienced as of now. So I really liked seeing Spiderman panic when The Green Goblin threw him from a great height. And Spiderman has no idea how to save his own life as he plunges toward his death. Now as a last resort, Spiderman uses his web to make a net, but he was clearly extremely unsure of the success of his idea. Luckily, the spider net works and he shoots out alive from this predicament.
With the Spider-net technique succeeding at saving his life, Spiderman is a bit more confident to explore other ideas. And I liked Spiderman admitting he wanted to try this particular idea in a safer environment but decided to try it anyway, winging it. Yes, you’re correct, he tried his first web-swing. I like how fun-loving and light-hearted his conversations with himself are. It’s so peaceful to just hear Spiderman’s monologue. Like Ryan Reynolds. As long as Ryan Reynolds keeps talking whatever he wants to in a movie, I would love it, he’s such a delight to keep listening to. Or maybe his writers and he do a wonderful job at writing his lines. I don’t know yet.
Another awesome moment is when Spiderman uses his web on The Green Goblin, but misses, and shoots the Helicopters behind him. SIMPLY FANTASTIC… The author has done such an incredible job at picking out all these tiny moments that you’d face in real life if you were Spiderman. And no movie, anime, or animated series can cover all these moments as cheaply as comic books can do. For that Comic Books rule big time. All the movies in the world would not be great without the foundational groundwork that comic books provide them. Comic Books can tell a much more elaborate and deeper story than a movie. But then again, novels beat comic books when it comes to more content. Anyway, I’m digressing.
Getting back to Spiderman. Another beautiful moment is when Spiderman tries to stop the Green Goblin but ends up being pulled around by the giant green monster as he jumps across buildings. Embarrassed about his lack of expertise, he tells himself he needs to take night lessons to improve his web-shooting and fighting skills. So Hilarious! Another classic scene from the life of Spiderman is when the Cops see Spiderman as a criminal even though he is fighting the bad guy. I can understand that a common man wouldn’t be able to tell the difference cause he’d be panicking in a stressful situation like this. But I would have expected that Cops have the training to stay calm and think rationally during an active violent situation and have the ability to tell the difference between the good guy and the bad guy. Or perhaps it’s the author’s partiality that tells a biased story and shows Cops as nothing more than order-following unintelligent government employees.
And once the fight is over and the Goblin has presumably drowned, Spiderman escapes the scene. And Peter Parker comes out of the tattered school pretending he was just pinned under a chalkboard. I liked the last scene too where the kids, the police, and the reporters are still trying to piece together what had happened and who or what the Green Goblin is. The part where Harry has a meltdown and screams that the monster is actually his father Norman Osborne brings back the drama and emotion such traumatic experiences have on the characters, which is quite intelligent and thoughtful storywriting. Harry thinks the monster was trying to kill him, but Peter knows it was trying to kill him instead. In reality, both don’t know for sure what the Green Goblin actually wanted.
All in all, this a brilliant issue if you love Spiderman and want to experience special moments in the journey of Spiderman trying to fight crime, save people, learning new techniques, and getting the experience of being 'The Ultimate Spiderman'. People who can’t get enough of Spiderman content would surely love this comic book series.
