Amac Productions

Got to love another attempt to reinvent the wheel.

My goodness.

A few weeks ago, I sat here typing away, calling the new Superman movie something new. Something incredible.

I mean, at least we’re not treading where we’ve already been.

The Spectacular Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man, Marvel’s Spider-Man, and now Friendly Neighborhood all show Peter exactly the same.

I’m not talking style or even storytelling.

Every single one of those are set in Peter’s teenage years.

Do you know how long he was a teen in the original comics? Just a handful of years.

But everyone is obsessed with turning Peter into a teen permanently.

It started with the Andrew Garfield series. Though they did not achieve their goals, the idea was to focus on a Peter still in high school. Something that was promised to us yet again when Tom Holland and Marvel took off.

So much so, that he was snapped away for five years which froze him in time for those five years. Returning to us again as a teen.

In the comics, they did One More Day to get rid of Peter’s marriage for fear of it making him too old. Or that divorce or widowing him would also age the character too much and make him unrelatable.

Why is being an adult so unrelatable?

We all grow up.

Jeez.

They’re convinced that the only story worth telling is the one of Peter in his youth. His teens. Unlike the Spider-Man Animated series from the 90s. I mean, at least he got to go to college in that one.

Otherwise, it’s not allowed for Peter to turn 20.

Nope. Unacceptable.

Except, it’s all anyone wants from Marvel.

Fans have been begging them to undo One More Day since it happened. Clamoring for moments and fragments of Peter growing up. Seeing what the next chapter of his life should have held for him.

Such as Into the Spiderverse, where we see Peter B. Parker start over with MJ and have a baby.

Renew Your Vows. Which was so popular they brought it back for another run.

Or the current ongoing series set in alternate universe where Peter gets his powers much later in life. When he already has a family with Mary Jane and two kids. It’s flying off the shelf.

So much so, it’s been so hard to find them on my local comic shelves.

Think about the acclaim that Superman & Lois had for showing a Superman with kids and a family life. He had to worry about teens and saving the world at the same time. No easy feat.

It broke ground.

Smallville and teen shows like Gotham were good in their day. They had their time. But that time has passed, and we want to see new stories.

Because if we want to see Peter as a teenager, we can go back read those stories, watch the older cartoons, and so on. Even if they’ve aged, some issues never go out of style. Some problems are universal.

So aside from telling a story no one wants, this trailer attempts to modernize Spider-Man in all the wrong ways.

The music is reminiscent of Into the Spiderverse, making it feel like I should be watching Miles Morales, not Peter swinging around New York.

Which, hey, I’m all for that. Let’s show the world that Spider-Man too. He could use his own cartoon series.

I’d watch that.

So the music doesn’t fit Peter.

Then there’s just the animation itself.

Oh, for crying out loud. I don’t need a moving comic book to understand this is a comic hero. Like…? It’s not even good.

This seems like it’s trying really hard to be everything that Into the Spiderverse is and doing it poorly. Everything just doesn’t… fit.

It doesn’t feel like Spider-Man. It feels like an AI computer was given a brief synopsis of the hero and forced to write a show. Just lifeless and bland.

Unlike the video game by Insomniac that felt like it was made with love and a passion for the character, this just does nothing for me. It felt like it was made by robots. Robots who were told what was cool and interesting and current, but no life or context to match it.

It’s just nothing.

Instantly forgettable.

How can you do that to Spider-Man?

One of the most recognizable and popular superheroes in the world?

Then the modernization of him with the cellphones and Tik Tok and Instagram like atmosphere. Nothing about it screams anything interesting.

It’s nothing new.

We’ve seen it all before.

Add a cell phone, change the costume, bring it to the beginning, whatever you do. No amount of minute changes will make for an interesting story.

In this case, it doesn’t even make interesting to look at.

Bummer.

I wish for more for Spidey.

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