Back in Black

by Ron Garney and J. Michael Straczynski

Look what someone found in their closet! Reeling in the aftermath of the Civil War that's wracked the Marvel Universe, Peter Parker has got plenty of reasons to consider a change of wardrobe. Black is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785125523
• ISBN13: 9780785125525
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
• Length: 144 Pages

Customer Reviews

Pure awesomeness!

Great great great comic. Beautiful story in which the reader follows Spider-Man as he continues his busy life after the Civil war saga.

Reviews in 20 words or less

Amazing writing. Loved reading all the story lines reach their pinnacle. A must read prior to One Day More.

Dark Spidey

After his aunt is shot Peter goes BALLIASTIC He dons the black suit a suit he doesn't wear because MJ doesn't like how it looks too much like Venom's costume. (Peter is whipped). In ASM Spidey wages a one-man war on crime to figure out who tried to kill him and accidentally ending up shooting his aunt. I believe the guy was actually trying to kill MJ. However, if this Graphic Novel includes FNS written by Peter David just skip that story. This great review is for JMS write on ASM, okay.

Powerful story, not happy times for Spidey!

Collecting Amazing Spider-Man 539-543, Friendly Spider-Man 17-23 and Annual 1, this is the first book of two Back In Black hardcovers detailing Spider-Man's life after the Civil War events in the Marvel Universe, where his identity as Peter Parker had been publicly revealed. Focusing on the aftermath of an assassin's attempts on his family, the story has Spider-Man facing the darker aspects of his character. Well told and drawn as usual, it cuts off rather abruptly at the end of the ASM issues. Would have liked a little more conclusive end point.

A dark chapter

I thought that the first half of this book was amazing and I would recommend it to anyone. The book features a darker Spider-man than in the past fraught with the shooting of his aunt and gets into the consequences of acting without the mask. I can't wait to read the rest in One More Day. Where the book does fall out is the last half when it switches from Amazing Spider-Man to Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. There's a story about the Sandman that's not very interesting but sort of serves to set up the next story which features the end of Ero (who shows up in the end of The Other). This story was dull up until the last bit of the story during the final fight between Spider-Man and Ero but it drags until then. Either way the book is totally worth the read.