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I really loved this crossover.

Though I will admit, I liked the first one much better overall. Including all the little stories they tossed in for flavor. This was still good, but the other one was definitely my favorite.

But I’m always down for a good team-up and this was definitely fun.

I love everything about this.

How sweet and wholesome it is as Peter and Clark realize they have way more in common than they thought. Which for me, is really fun since I love these two characters so much.

Superman has always been my absolute favorite superhero.

Once, a long time ago now, I wrote a story featuring Superman and Spider-Man doing a team-up. I’m pretty sure I’ve told this story before because it involved me now getting to tell my father ‘I told you so’ since they did actually team-up. A thing he claimed could never happen.

To be fair, it had happened when he said that as well since these are celebrating the anniversary of the original crossover.

Over the course of time, Spider-Man has found a place in my heart. As a kid, I loved Spider-Man, but I didn’t really relate to him very well. Being a goodie two shoes myself, I found myself relating to the outcast that was Clark Kent more as a child. Especially watching Smallville every week when I was younger.

I didn’t really understand the struggles Peter faced in his daily life. Struggling to pay bills. Make time to see people. Be there for everyone.

Superman can get home as quickly as he leaves. But Spider-Man cannot. He tends to leave people in the lurch and not return nearly as quickly. He’ll come home bruised and beaten up. Peter deals with an irate boss who is an HR nightmare on his best day. Girl troubles. School troubles. Bully troubles.

I grew up with Peter, aspiring to be like Superman.

These two characters are cut from very similar cloth.

Their stories and lives may have different looks or tones. But they have the same heart. Similar values. An inability to sit on the sidelines when they could be helping, even at a great personal cost.

Peter continues to do the right thing day in and day out even when the world isn’t very nice to him. Even when most people would give up in the face of everything that’s happened to him. Instead, it merely pushes him further. To protect the people, he loves so they never suffer the same fates he has.

Clark does the right thing every day. He gets up choosing to be kind. To use his power for the greater good of the world, not to enforce his will upon people. To tell them what is right. Instead, he is an example of true kindness.

I really love this team-up between these two and I hope we don’t have to wait too long for another crossover between them.

Also, I hope that Marvel gets the same sales numbers that DC got, since they had to do a second publishing. Which – hooray! I love that.

I love knowing that print isn’t dead. It’s such a fun little reminder that we love our colorful stories of people dressed in skintight suits saving the day. Love to see it.

For my next confession, I will admit that I really enjoyed the story between Gwen and Lana comparing notes over their very strange boyfriends. The ones who disappear and return with the worst excuse known to man. Would probably lose their heads if they weren’t attached kind of guys, who will also drop everything to help a little old lady cross the street.

Because each of these women described Clark and Peter perfectly.

Then sigh at the end that they’re going to marry these guys as Peter and Clark arrive on scene. Clearly fresh off rescuing people with some of their worst excuses ready.

And I know it’s not funny, not really, but it amused me, so I needed to share it – because I know the truth. I’ve seen their futures. The countless versions of Peter and Clark there are. Whether on TV, big screens, books, or comics, or whatever else we got. It will never be either of them.

For as cute and wonderful as Lana and Gwen’s relationships to Clark and Peter are, they were never meant to last.

Even though it may have been Gwen who was supposed to end up with Peter via how Stan Lee originally pictured his world. Mary Jane changed everything by just existing in the same universe. Fans wanted her to be with Peter. So did writers. Artists. And countless others who have time and time again chosen her even though they could pick Gwen.

Take the new Ultimate Universe for example. They could have easily written Gwen as his wife in a world where Spider-Man didn’t exist. Except they did not. It’s Mary Jane.

Much like Lois and Clark. Who have been confirmed to be soulmates destined to end up together countless times over the course their history. I mean, they’re not even a question really.

If there’s a Lois and there’s a Clark, they’ll be together. It’s just how it is.

Mary Jane and Peter have slowly worked their way into that. Maybe they’re not destined to be together, but they have forged themselves into the perfect partner for each other.

And it just tickles me silly when we go into their pasts and find them and their girlfriends so convinced that they’ll be together forever.

Like I laugh myself silly every single time I see clips from Smallville when Clark is like ‘I don’t know how I’ll ever love anyone like Lana’ and then Lois enters the scene right after that. Or we reference Clark’s next great love and Lois is the following shot. Every time. I’m just laughing my butt off.

Because if only you knew!

One day, I just want a series where we go into the past of these characters and we’re like, yes Lois you end up with Clark. Sorry, Clark, Lana is not the one. Get over it. (Especially on Smallville.)

If you only knew!

I don’t know why I find this so amazing. Maybe it’s because I like that the audience gets to be in on the things with the writers while the characters remain oblivious. It’s way more fun that keeping me in the dark when I get to shout that the main character is an idiot.

Or have moments when you feel terrible for Clark (again Smallville) because he thinks he’s destined to be alone because he has no idea how anyone could ever really accept him. And I’m just like, dude, there’s someone. She’s just not here yet. You’re going to be fine. But you get into that moment with him, because it must feel awful to feel like you’ll be alone forever. But you know! You know there’s a happy ending somewhere.

We just haven’t gotten there yet.

It’s also why I love rewatching so much. I can see things I missed before because I was trying to figure things out rather than catching a lot of nuances.

Regardless, I love this comic, and I hope they do more! Like an annual thing or something, guys!

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