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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder



You don't need to know about Spider-Man comics to read this, as the novel explains everything as it goes on.

The story setting is in New York, Manhattan. One night, Spidey is swinging around the buildings when he sees a crime happpens, he stops it but a citizen is hurt. J Jonah Jameson, head of the Daily Bugle, who has called Spider-Man a menace rather than a hero, quickly puts on the news and frames the accident on Spider-Man, of course Spidey has endured him for a very long time. But when a robot attack, led by Electro, injures Peter Parker's students and Jameson then blames it on Spider-Man again. Peter has enough, he then decides to take their fight on a deeper, personal dimension. As the webslinger clashes further attacks, his spider-sense warns that Jameson himself is behind them. Driven by anger, he declares war against Jameson. But in their pursuit of winning, they both lost themselves in anger, madness and blindness, falling victim to the dark secret behind the attacks.

The story is pretty good, well developed. There are tons of action, combining with humorous quote by Webhead. It has some hard vocabulary so you have to figure that out yourselves. Christopher L. Bennett has been really focusing on the characterization of Spider-Man and Jameson so they feel very realistic and human. It is overall a good book based on a superhero comic.

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