Summary: Peter Parker relives how he fell in love with Gwen Stacy in <a href="https://amzn.to/2CjFs02">Spider-man: Blue.</a><br> Find out what Adam Graham thinks of <a href="https://amzn.to/2ChgVsv">Watchmen</a> and Pirate comics.<br> The Doctor and Clara meet up with some World War II pilots carrying an Atom Bomb in <a href="https://amzn.to/2yCK3XT">Doctor Who: Skyjacks</a><br> Donatello accidentally opens an inter-dimensional gateway allowing Bane to come through to their New York which means time for another Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Team-up in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Batman-Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles/dp/1401280315/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1539579262&sr=1-1&keywords=Batman%2C+TMNT+2&dpID=51GSMBZx5iL&preST=_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_QL70_&dpSrc=srch">Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II</a>.<br> Also we take a look at Graphic Audio and present another Hero of the Public Domain as we look at Blue Lady who appeared in <a href="https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=71">Amazing Man Comics #24-26</a><br> Transcript below:<br> Today Spider-Man’s feeling a little blue, Batman meets up with the Ninja Turtles once again, and we talk about a little comic book called Watchmen, straight ahead.<br> <br> 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.<br> Today we have four different graphic novels to discuss, and then we have a couple of what I call ‘department segments’ we’ll get through which are not our typical reviews but I think you’ll find interesting. Alright, well we’ll go ahead and we will get started with Spider-Man Blue, written by Jeph Loeb and art by Tim Sale. It’s a 2002-2003 miniseries in which Peter Parker is making a recording to Gwen Stacy, and recalling that time in his life when he met Mary Jane Watson but also started to fall for Gwen Stacy. Essentially the book retells mini incidents that occurred in the early part of Stan Lee and John Romita’s partnership on The Amazing Spider-Man.<br> Now the art on this book is just great. Tim Sale always does a fantastic job whenever he’s assigned to a project, particularly with Loeb, and in this case it’s no exception, and what he does here is he really captures the feel of the John Romita era and makes that whole John Romita senior feel be really apparent in the way that he draws the book. So it was very authentic and well done. <br> The plots are good because they’re essentially the same plots that Stan Lee used. However, the story by Loeb it fills in some plot holes from the time, for example, well one thing that happened in this early period with Amazing Spider-Man is Peter goes out and buys a motor scooter which is really odd because the comics portray Peter as always being in a constant battle with poverty. So, where’d he get the money for that? And this book answers that sort of question, so it takes away some of the silly stuff, and it gives some reflection and depth to Peter’s emotional state because this is Peter Parker who has grown up, he’s gotten married and he’s gone through all those things that Spider-Man has gone through through 2003. So he’s more in touch with his feelings and better able to express a lot of things that were going on in his head and going on in his life at the time. So it’s got the gift of hindsight and a little bit of additional reflection. <br> Now one criticism I’ve seen out here for this book which I don’t think is particularly fair is that the book doesn’t really give a whole lot of depth to Gwen Stacy. Well that is really not Loeb’s fault because he’s going based on what Stan Lee had, and there really wasn’t a lot of depth to Gwen Stacy as written by Stan Lee. In addition, as the story is about him recalling his thoughts on falling in ...
