Amazing Spider Girl: This is the way to write a Spider Comic Book

I have purchased the original Spider Girl from issues 50 to 100, with a n exception of 1 or 2 issues. I did not bother to purchase 1 - 49. This is because it was relaunched into a new series called Amazing Spider Girl. And I have issues 0 to 6 right now.

The picture on the left is the cover to Amazing Spider Girl issue number 0, and the one on the left is issue # 1. I find the one on the left to be one of the best covers in any comic books I have ever seen. We have Spider Girl here holding her dad, Spider Man, perhaps saving him from danger or something. It's very hilarious.

In an alternate universe Peter Parker and Mary Jane's baby girl did not die. She lived. And in this universe she is May Parker, the daughter of Spider Man. This is how I remember Peter Parker and Spider Man when I was a kid. He was a teenager with teenaged problems. He was a super hero, and with problems as well.

The same goes for May Parker, except as Spider Girl. And she has to contend with what her dad had to contend with. May or as she is often called Mayday has different motiviations, and a completely different approach to crime-fighting than her dad.

Amazing Spider-Girl feels as fresh as a summer breeze after a particularly cold and drab winter. The comic book is presented in a first person point of view. This is makes the book a more friendlier perspective. You get to see Mayday's tirals and tribulations. And it doesn't matter if you are in the USA or in the Philippines or wherever, you will encounter similar troubles as a teenager. So a lot of teenagers can empathize with this book.

Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz, long time scribes to the Amazing Spider Man years back knows this character from heart. Just like the Amazing Spider Man, Mayday has a great array of supporting cast that defines Spider Girl and her universe. She has a baby brother. She has her mom, Mary Jane. She has a reitred super hero for a dad in peter Parker. She has a whole bunch of friends in school. And she has an array of super villains to make her super hero life very interesting.

The best part of this series is that you have a young super heroine in Mayday who still feels the thrill of being a superhero. In the regular Marvel Universe, Spider Man is getting too bleak. Spider Girl brings that classic feel of teenaged angst and problems, thrill of being a new super hero, and light hearted though at times darkened moods. May's wit with her interaction with the villains reminds me of a young Spider Man.

In Issue 0 basically it is telling you the world that Spider Girl lives in, like who her supporting characters are and a rogue gallery of colorful villains.

In issue 1 you basically have Mayday, who promised her parents that she'd stay out of danger and hang up her superhero costume. May gets a new hairdo and it is shorter. She looks more mature after high school. And she is happy. No angst, just enjoying her teenaged life.

In issue 2, you have the villain The Hobgoblin. He has gotten his array of weapons from the original Green Goblin's stash. Frenz and DeFalco portrays him as a man who wants to be thought of as having class. Simultaneously he characterizes Hobgoblin as a ruthless, methodical madman reminiscent of a murderer as attested by his dialogue, "...I want you to target the shelter's teenage volunteers. Attack them one at a time until you flush her out." He wants Spider Girl.

His henchmen carries out his orders, but the looks on their face showed like them having a problem carrying out the sanctioned orders, as if it was wrong. And these are the bad guys.

The Hobgoblin is a technical genius as well.

Now back to Mayday Parker, I like her interactions with her mom, Mary Jane. It's like a real mother-daughter heart-to-heart talk. At the same time it can also be antagonistic, but respectful. Characterization at its fullest.

The battle sequence is superb. And it includes that special brand of spider wit that compliments the comedy sequences in her school.