Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Amazing Spider-Man #533

Amazing Spider-Man #533
Better than last issue, but sorry, I'm still not buying the underlying premise. Ignoring for the moment the damage that this current storyline does to the underlying Spider-Man mythos, it just doesn't make sense. How is the country served by Spidey's unmasking? Who thought this would be a good idea? Why are MJ and Aunt May so gung ho that Peter's doing the right thing? Do they have no sense of self-preservation or need for privacy? It has always been an issue of right to privacy. If I run around making citizens arrests, but choose to wear a mask as I'm doing so, I break no laws. If a police officer chooses to wear a full face helmet while performing his duties, he breaks no laws. Why should Spidey - who hasn't the strength to actually cause property damage, and has never instigated violence, be held responsible for the actions of supervillains, and thus forced to relinquish his basic human right to privacy? Like I said, I'm not buying it.
Nitpickingly, check out the illustration on page 13. Peter's smart enough to know that when you put two telephones together so that the parties on each end can talk to each other, one of them must be inverted with respect to the other!!! Otherwise, each phone will be speaking to the mouthpiece of the other, and nobody will hear anything!
Check out Atlas' headpiece on the final page. Are those two "A" pieces on his forehead decals? If not, then how do they stay on without being attached to anything?
I find that I have a hard time believing that all the heroes pictured on the last page would actually go so far as to hunt down fellow heroes who merely excercise their rights to passive dissent. Since when did the United States of America become a fascist regime? I won't be surprised if Tony ends up to have been impersonated by the Red Skull. Ugh, this stuff is really AWFUL.

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