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A review by hinterlands
Spider-Man: Life Story by Chip Zdarsky
3.0
A realization of a fun thought experiment (how could you work the long and convoluted Spiderman canon into an actual life story where Peter ages like a normal person) and really nothing more. Genuinely just a long string of going "oh i get what this is adapting".
In a way its kind of like the opposite of All-Star Superman, one of my favorite comics of all time. That comic embraces and centers all the strangest and silliest aspects of the superman mythos while being one of the most human and beautiful superhero comics you'll ever read. This tries to fit all of the most serious and important spiderman stories into the scale of a human lifetime and comes up with a bland and pasty mouthful of comic book mulch.
Plus, if you're going to invoke Watchmen in your super-hero alt-history like that you've gotta come out swinging a bit harder. You can't just invite that comparison for fun, you're undermining yourself.
In a way its kind of like the opposite of All-Star Superman, one of my favorite comics of all time. That comic embraces and centers all the strangest and silliest aspects of the superman mythos while being one of the most human and beautiful superhero comics you'll ever read. This tries to fit all of the most serious and important spiderman stories into the scale of a human lifetime and comes up with a bland and pasty mouthful of comic book mulch.
Plus, if you're going to invoke Watchmen in your super-hero alt-history like that you've gotta come out swinging a bit harder. You can't just invite that comparison for fun, you're undermining yourself.