Set in Peter Parker's earliest days as Spider-Man, this series gives us some new adventures of everyone's favourite wall-crawling superhero. It's not too serious, it's not covered in continuity, and it's never a chore to read. It's also perfect for new or younger readers. Most of all, it's cute. The Spider-Man stories weren't anything earth-shattering, but they felt fresh. Spidey jokes around a lot, which he's always done, but the writing in this book manages to capture something interesting. Spidey is funny, but he's not hilarious. He's funny in that he's not great at being funny yet, but he's still making quips. Quips and thwips. That shit's working. It's the Peter Parker Portions that are a bit of a snooze, and damn if they don't tread a lot of familiar ground. Flash Thompson is his antagonist, and Parker could mop the floor with him but doesn't because he feels like getting his head dunked in the toilet is the only way to keep his secret identity secret. This book is surprisingly boring. I mean I get that it’s a more serious story but can’t you still make it exciting? I shouldn’t feel like a superhero comic is dragging at a slow pace. The story is pretty bad. So I thought it really had potential to be cool but Zdarsky is simply a bad writer IMO. The main problem with this plot might be that Zdarsky changes things that honestly have NOTHING to do with Spider-Man aging so it’s even stupid in a “what if” scenario.

Spiderman: toda una vida es un ejercicio similar al que hizo John Byrne con batman y superman en generaciones, la premisa principal es representar como sería la vida de los superhéroes si hubieran envejecido como personas normales. En este caso tenemos la historia dividida en seis números, en cada uno de los cuales se cuentan algunos de los principales acontecimientos que ocurrieron en la vida de spiderman durante una década, empezando por la década de los 60 y terminando por los 2010+. En el transcurso de las décadas spiderman (y los demás personajes de su entorno) va envejeciendo a un ritmo de mundo real y la gracia en mi opinión estaría en observar las diferencias que podría haber en los distintos puntos de inflexión y las aventuras si en lugar del peter parker en sus eternos veintisiempre los hubiera vivido dependiendo de la época un treintañero, un cuarenton, un cincuentón... es decir, alguien con algo más de experiencia al principio, y según va avanzando la cosa un Parker cada vez más cascado físicamente y cansado de problemas, con mujer e hijos, etc. Oh, I will say, the art is badass. The action is really cool, reminiscent of Nightwing from Scott McDaniel, but more colorful and 10% more Looney Tunes.Synopsis: Spider-Man: Life Story is a six-issue miniseries by Chip Zdarsky and Mark Bagley set in an alternate universe where we see Peter Parker grow and age in real-time starting from his adolescent years during the 60s when he first gained his superpowers to 2019. Había oído y leído cosas muy buenas de este cómic desde que se publicó en EEUU pero cuando finalmente lo he leído me ha resultado una decepción. No me malinterpretéis, no es un mal cómic ni mucho menos, pero cuando hay tanta gente que le da un bombo desmesurado a un cómic mainstream como se le ha dado a este yo al menos espero algo que sorprenda, y en mi caso al menos sorpresas pocas. In 1962, a 15 year-old boy named Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider . . . " - from the intro You know that big thing some people complain about comic characters, that they never really age, and nothing really evolves much cause of timeline restraints. Well Chip is given the opportunity to start Peter's life in the 60's and through the decades age him and have the world around him change. In other words, we grow with Peter through his teen years to an old man. Last year I wrote an article that was critical of comics', especially Marvel's, tendency to de-age their characters. They've made some diversity movements, and that's cool, but in terms of age we haven't seen as much movement. Ms. Marvel, Iron Man/Iron Heart, Moon Girl, Nova, Miles Morales, Totally Awesome Hulk. ALL bringing forth diversity in just about every way. Except age.

This book is pretty unpredictable as it shows a different take on Spider-Man and really the Marvel universe as a whole. It is a love letter to Spider-Man? I didn't think so. I felt like it was more of an incredibly detailed and well-planned twist on the iconic storylines of Spider-Man. Okay, and I know this seems totally unrelated...does Ain't It Cool News dislike anything? I feel like every comic I look at, Ain't It Cool News has something great to say about it.I'm not sure what my specific problems with the final issues were. Maybe because they're rooted in modern event comics that are already being forgotten, like Spider-Man being a totem of spiders or Doctor Octopus taking over Peter's body. Or maybe I just didn't want Spider-Man to die. The ending is painfully bad. So many terrible ideas and lines of bad dialogue crammed into that last issue with a slightly stupid in general way of wrapping it up. A long time ago . . . someone told me that 'with great power, there must also come great responsibility.' I can help. So I do help. Or try to, anyway." -- Spider-Man, regarding his chosen avocation, to an inquisitive Captain America, in chapter 10 WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND BRIEF POLITICS, IF THE LATTER UPSETS YOU DON’T READ THE BOOK EITHER. Gun to my head favourite superhero? Spidey, easy. There was a time when I followed just about all of his exploits, but these days I'm a bit more selective in my comic reads. I tend towards the big-buzz and critically-acclaimed comics regardless of who the hero in tights might be. So I was pretty excited when Chip Zdarsky's middle finger to continuity Spider-Man tale started to pop up again and again on 2019 best-of lists.

And then finally in 2019 when its the superior spider-man with a final confrontation with all of his major enemies, and Peter going out with a bang a great thing with Miles. Its a lot to take in but its the stories of this decade I know and I love how he does it and he fulfills his promise to his uncle and aunt and even redeems the villains and like legacy and everything. Its so well done and emotional and made me tear up a bit. But its just ugh so good. Also, a lesson in self-worth. Dude, I have SUPER low self-esteem, as evidenced by the fact that I have to prove to the faceless internet that I'm not a racist asshole even though I'm like 100% sure. I also routinely eat things off the floor because I feel like I dropped them and there's a price to be paid. And even I don't think kissing porcelain is the answer here. In Spidey, the Spider-Man stuff works, the Parker stuff feels like an afterthought. Robbie Thompson nails it with the Spidey stuff, less nails it with the Parker stuff. Maybe staples it or something. What's less than a nail but still okay? Of course we all know that part - but what would've happened if Peter Parker, a.k.a. The Amazing Spider-Man, had realistically aged throughout the ensuing decades (like we readers have *cough cough*) yet still maintained the burden of the "with great power comes great responsibility" angle?This tells the story of Spider-Man except he keeps aging like a real person since his first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15. It’s sort of a “what if” story as it shows how things changed for Spidey and those around him if he were to keep getting older. My Thoughts: While I definitely would not consider myself a scholar in the Spider-Man lore (or Marvel in general), I am familiar enough with the character through movie/TV adaptations and a handful of random comics here and there to have a sufficiently good idea of the universe. As a result, I was easily able to get into this comic along with the fact that it was a stand-alone series and a bloody bodacious one at that. The stories were meh. In this day and age the best the writers of a Spider-Man comic can do is still have the Daily Bugle call Spider-Man an evil menace and have everyone believe it. Spider-Man still gets no help, no hope and no real friends, he still has to "Hide" who he is from the real world and let others claim all the glory. I wanted to love this. I have several friends who enjoyed it and a lot of people say it’s a must-read for Spider-Man fans and to those friends, as always, I’m glad others enjoyed it even if I hated it but I honestly can’t see why they liked it. In 2017, Sex Criminals artist Chip Zdarsky, who had been writing for Marvel for a couple of years, took over the newly published Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, which for years was very much the secondary Spidey title after The Amazing Spider-Man. Along with Adam Kubert, who primarily did the art throughout the run, Spectacular was a fun but flawed spin on the web-slinger that may go off in crazy directions, but had a healthy balance of heart and humour. After a pitch-perfect final issue with #310, it felt like Zdarsky had his final say towards Peter Parker, until two years later with a more ambitious Spidey story.

I'm quoting myself, which is the definition of being up my own ass. But I didn't want to do that math again. I tried, okay? I wanted to love this... but no... I really should have known better than to try another Chip Zdarsky book... However, the last half drops off as far as art. Don't get me wrong André Lima Araújo is a great artist, and I do like his style, but to follow Bradshaw is just not fair. It is such a drop off as far as styles that is actually quite jarring. I know we cant have artists do entire runs, but man, this really suffered from the transition. In Spidey, Parker is in love with Gwen Stacy, he has to find a job taking pictures for the Bugle. The Peter Parker stuff couldn't be more by-the-(comic)book.

For the most part, I enjoyed this quite a bit. Zdarsky and Bagley take Spider-Man and the Marvel Universe into some interesting directions. The first four issues were gold. I thought the last two could have been better, though. Seeing some of the older storylines play out in this new timeline was great, as was Peter actually growing up and growing old. La premisa aquí es potente: ¿y si pudiéramos leer la vida de Peter Parker de forma lineal y en tiempo real? ¿y si joven Spiderman envejeciera con el paso de las décadas? Chip Zdarsky guioniza esta experimental miniserie de seis números que comienza con nuestro querido y vecino Spiderman en 1968 para llevarlo, década a década repasando y ligando algunos de sus acontecimientos más importantes, hasta 2019, donde Peter Parker es ya casi un sexagenario.