A review by cmbussmann
Spider-Man: Life Story by Chip Zdarsky

3.0

***1/2: nice to see Mark Bagley back on art. Chip Zdarsky’s story is inventive, a great premise: aging Spider-Man in real time from 1962 to the present and using that conceit to reinterpret each decade’s major Spider lore. The problem is that, as a limited series tackling one decade per issue, things are inevitable rushed. Chip also doesn’t really vary his contemporary writing style across the decades so his dialogue feels retroactively anachronistic. That said, I really enjoyed the story: the new wrinkles on familiar events as they unfold in real-time with an aging Peter Parker was engaging.