Reveiw of Spider Man Blue

For every Gwen Stacy Fan, this book is a must read. It treats the Bridge of Death way differently than any other mag has so far. This book is hard bound, and costs $21.99. It comes with a very nice color cover with commentary and illustrations. Very well done.

The premise is that Pete is remembering Gwen by dictating his thoughts into an old Cassette recorder he found in the attic. In this, he relives some old adventures that aren't exactly Canon, but entertaining none the less. The thing here is that he is remembering what happened, maybe not exactly as it happened.

Gwen is treated very nicely here, is the book is basically in her memory. We don't see her die. We do see more like what Pete noticed early on in their life, and a re-doing of the M.J. appearance.

Dialog wise the book is excellent. None of the beat-nick lingo that Marvel had the kids speaking at the time. It rolls, locks together, and doesn't confuse. Background art is very good, and there is an effort in at least one panel to pay homage to John Romita's version of Gwen. Most of the characters hardly resemble the ones from the time period they are supposed to be in, though, and for that I just put it down to Artist License.

Overall, it is excellently done, and the quirks can be overlooked. Its a nice love-story, triangle, action adventure, tragedy that is worth it to the collector.

It wraps up the sub-plots, plots, and storyline nicely in the end.

There is an introduction by Romita, and notes at the end of the book.

Peter tells her shes the first one there at Flash's Party.

Gwen asks "Do I win a prize?"

For those of us who love this character;

"Oh yes."