J.J. Abrams' SPIDER-MAN Comic Book Is Completely Different To What Everyone Expected - SPOILERS

J.J. Abrams' SPIDER-MAN Comic Book Is Completely Different To What Everyone Expected - SPOILERS

J.J. Abrams is teaming up with his son Henry for a new Spider-Man comic book series, but the director pulled some big surprises out of his Mystery Box with some huge shocks in today's debut issue...

By JoshWilding - Sep 18, 2019 05:09 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics
Before the release of Spider-Man #1, it very much sounded like it was going to be a typical story featuring the wall-crawler taking on a new villain, despite the impressive creative team of J.J. Abrams and his son Henry (along with artist Sara Pichelli). Well, it turns out that there's a lot more to this tale than meets the eye! 

In the prologue, Spidey comes up against a formidable new villain called Cadaverous and while we don't see how that battle started, Peter has clearly been through the wringer as his arm has pretty much been destroyed. Moments later, Mary Jane winds up being killed by the villain, and it's then we learn that these two have a young son: Ben. 

Jump forward twelve years and it's revealed that this series is actually about the young Ben Parker as he discovers that he has spider powers! He lives with his dad's Aunt May because the one-armed Peter has turned out to be something of a deadbeat father who travels the globe as a journalist. 

As the issue ends, May discovers that Ben has superpowers and tells him to go into the attic where he finds the tattered remains of his father's Spider-Man costume (he clearly gave up being the hero after what happened to MJ).

Now, it seems like this tale will actually be about the future Marvel Universe getting a brand new Spider-Man...

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crawley
crawley - 9/18/2019, 5:35 AM
so it's about a young boy learning to find himself after living in the shadow of his famous dad? that's cute.
shadowspider9
shadowspider9 - 9/18/2019, 2:40 PM
@crawley -
continuezero
continuezero - 9/18/2019, 5:36 AM
Interesting concept, I’m not sure I’m on board with a one armed deadbeat dad Peter Parker. But I’ll trust JJ and where he’s lookin to take things.
theFUZZ008
theFUZZ008 - 9/18/2019, 6:11 AM
@continuezero - "But I’ll trust JJ..."

jj2112
jj2112 - 9/18/2019, 6:22 AM
@continuezero - I trusted JJ until the Alias finale.
FinnishDude
FinnishDude - 9/18/2019, 10:24 AM
@jj2112 - His two Star Trek movies made sure that I will never trust him.
rebellion
rebellion - 9/18/2019, 5:39 AM
Knew it would suck. I guess nobody can write spiderman without ruining mj. Like they couldnt just have a kid and you know.... Actually parent? Naaah, leta leave that to aunt may, who must be 200 at this point.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 9/18/2019, 5:41 AM
Hmm IDK, some of it sounds very Fanfiction-ish and a little edgy in parts such as the violence and the fridging of Mary Jane. I really was expecting something different.
nibs
nibs - 9/18/2019, 5:41 AM
pretty sure there's already a beloved future spider-verse and spider-kid, but go off i guess
GhostDog
GhostDog - 9/18/2019, 5:42 AM
GhostDog
GhostDog - 9/18/2019, 5:44 AM
God forbid Peter and MJ have a kid and it’s NOT TRAGIC. Peter as a dead beat dad just doesn’t correlate...like AT ALL.
tmp3
tmp3 - 9/18/2019, 5:50 AM
@BlackBeltJones - "Peter as a dead beat dad just doesn’t correlate...like AT ALL."
Hmm...
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 9/18/2019, 5:51 AM
@tmp3 - washed up and deadbeat are not necessarily the same.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 9/18/2019, 5:44 AM
It's okay, for a first issue. A lot of similarities to M2's May Day. Peter growing up to become Keanu Reeves is a bit weird.
continuezero
continuezero - 9/18/2019, 5:48 AM
Actually I gotta think after his dad and Uncle Ben there’s be no way Peter would be a deadbeat absent dad. Not to mention as someone pointed out above, we’re just gonna Aunt May step in and take care of Peter’s kid too now?
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 9/18/2019, 5:50 AM
Sigh. It's 2019 JJ, you can have a superhero quit his job without having to kill his girlfriend. It's a reviled trope for several reasons, and already overused with Spidey.
IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 9/18/2019, 5:50 AM
If there is one thing Hollywood likes to have our greatest CBM heroes do...is quit.

Sigh....😕
Spiderfan2226
Spiderfan2226 - 9/18/2019, 2:20 PM
@IronGenesis - I know what is the deal with that?! It feels like writers being too obsessed with subverting expectations. Some times audiences expect certain things because they just don’t WANT to see the alternative. Because it’s just a bad idea. Seeing heroes like Luke and Spider-Man give up for a meaningful period is not something I want to see.
tmp3
tmp3 - 9/18/2019, 5:51 AM
What are the odds that the "new villain" they were promising is just this kid or something? And he dimension hops to 616. idk
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 9/18/2019, 8:31 PM
@tmp3 - Mary Jane's nameless telepathic mutant stalker from the late 90s/early 00s that committed suicide.
Polaris
Polaris - 9/18/2019, 5:51 AM
Killing MJ is a bad move, and how is Aunt May still alive?
Spiderfan2226
Spiderfan2226 - 9/18/2019, 2:09 PM
@Polaris - canon is dead anyway. Everything is just a self contained story that resets when it’s over so the next writer can do whatever crazy shock jock idea he/she wants to do, with no thought of how that effects the greater universe or character pathos. It’s the opposite of the mcu.
Matador
Matador - 9/18/2019, 5:54 AM
So it's like May Parker and in that universe his dad is missing a leg.



Nothing new here.
Odin
Odin - 9/18/2019, 10:03 AM
@Matador - My exact first thought reading this article was, that this sounds like some gender-bend version of MC2. And a bit fanfic-ish of that.
Matador
Matador - 9/18/2019, 10:18 AM
@Odin - Had they left MJ alone and it's fine if he lost his arm but to ditch his family to be a photographer with one arm; really.

If he stayed with his family MJ alive but maybe followed his other passion science or become a teacher that could have been a better story.
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