kirbyverse

Superior is the best cycle of Spiderman since the original Ditko run, and while Slott is telling Spiderman in a completely new way, it is with the same majestic authority and unfettered artisic license that Lee wrote and the same wild enthusiasm and sublime freedom that Ditko drew. The legacy of "The Logo" has not been so honored and alive since Kraven's Last Hunt. Slott is not at all destroying Spiderman ( which had been nothing more than an epic vapor trail since Issue #122 ) he is reinvigorating a mythology that had been all but dead for 40 years. Nothing like this has happened to an original Marvel hero since Steve Rogers was pulled out of the Arctic, and Slott knows it. Fittingly, Slott paid homage to The King with a brilliant Funky Flashman reference, signalling that he knows it is only a matter of time until the first man to write Spiderman like Lee did when he was still a rebel without a cause, becomes the next Kirby, a king forever in exile, betrayed by The Man that the rebel became when the company he conquered became him. It's a story to rival Fidel and Che, Lenin and Trotsky, Bill and Beatrix, Romeo and Mercutio .... well, you get the picture. Now get this. Atlantis has resurfaced true believers. Take a look before it sinks again.