Zap! Bam! Kapow! Saturdays – A Week of Spider-Man +GIVEAWAY

What I’m reading (and seeing and watching!) this week…

First Up – I (finally) saw Spider-Man: Homecoming

I am basically the last person on the planet to see it but 1. I didn’t realize it was out until release day and 2. Release day coincided with all that traveling I did. ANYWAYS, I loved it and here’s why:

• If you’re reading the current comic series (and you should be), Tom’s Spider-Man will be familiar to you. The joke-y, down on his luck Peter is who you are getting. He’s also a teen! And he tests just like any teen should. And he makes mistakes, just like any teen should. This is totally awesome for us fans of YA.
• They don’t drudge up Uncle Ben. Again. It’s done, we know his origin story. How many times do we have to kill the parents/uncles/whoevers before people realize that EVERYONE knows about Uncle Ben?
• The villain was kind of boring (to me) until he wasn’t. If you’ve seen the movie, you know what I’m talking about.
• It’s FUNNY. I don’t watch a lot of comedy and I don’t do hokey stuff but I laughed a lot during the movie. 
• Tony Stark. I will seriously watch RDJ as Tony all day, any day. I am so nervous for the day he is no longer Iron Man. My heart can’t take it! 
• The nod to Miles Morales. You may not have caught (I didn’t…and I literally finished Miles Morales on the walk to the theater) the nod but Donald Glover plays a character named Aaron Davis. Aaron is the uncle of Miles. Peter’s suit even picks up on him as the Prowler. I hope this means we will see Miles in the MCEU soon!

One of my favorite booksellers described this book as 25% Spider-Man and 75% Jason Reynolds, which is completely accurate. I absolutely LOVED Miles Morales and can’t recommend it enough. What Jason does to transform the history and legacy of Miles in just 272 short pages is incredible. 

Miles is a 15 year old black-Puerto Rican youth with a whole lot going on and, oh, he also has the same powers as Spider-Man. The old mantra “with great power comes great responsibility” sounds great except when you’re trying to keep your grades up at your all-white private school and the world is working against you. Miles has to worry about his parents and his neighborhood far before he will be saving the world, a lesson his dad shares with him at the very beginning of the story. To say I loved the family dynamics in this story is an understatement.

Without spoiling the story, I have to tell you…The villain in this story? Jason knocked it out of the park and hit home on our current world. Miles doesn’t have all the privileges we see in typical superhero stories, which makes his story compelling and true. I can’t recommend this enough!

I also had the opportunity to see Jason speak about Miles this week and it was a treat. Signed copies of the book are available at Kepler’s and I’m giving away a signed ARC at the end of this post, as well

Any cute collectibles?

My Miles Morales Funko Pop isn’t new but I did jailbreak him out of his box for this photo. I love his spidey-suit! 

Looking forward to…

Gotham Academy: Second Semester #12 – Last issue and I am devastated. Gotham Academy was the first comic I read and got me hooked on comics. I’m not ready for it to end!