None of the panels show faces, instead being shots of hands or bodies or the backs of heads, giving it an more impersonal yet intimate feel. We open the issue on a 9 panel grid of Jameson preparing the dinner table for his interview with Spiderman. Andy Kubert is great but there is something about the way Walsh lays out a page that just feels so much more intimate and works better with Zdarsky’s brand of comedy. To start, it’s made me wonder why Walsh isn’t the main series artist.
But enough character analysis, what about the actual issue? How is it? Then again, he does have reasons to be incredulous, ones Zdarsky weaves into the issue so that even if you are a new Spiderman fan, you can understand the why behind his anger, even if I feel the ways he express it feel off. Maybe there was some extra bad beef between the two of them in Slott’s run or Mark Waid’s mini-series “Family Business” but as it stands, instead of trying to work with Jameson, he’s actively antagonizing him. His temper is short, his demeanor is confrontational and constantly insults Jameson. He hasn’t been the teenage goofball in a long time, true, he’s been running an international company but I don’t get why he’s acting so immature with J. Let me get to the reason I say this, I’m not sure if I’m sold on the way Zdarsky characterizes Spiderman in either this issue or the series as a whole (but mostly this issue). I say all this for two reasons: one, because I know next to nothing that Dan Slott has done over the last decade with Peter and his cast (save for that Doc Ock body switch thing) and two, because I think it’s important to know where a reviewer is coming from when they look at something as long running and varied as a Spiderman story.
JMS’s Spiderman run was the very first comic book I ever read and I always get a little happy when part of his run is used as it has become retroactively somewhat null and void (looking at your ‘One More Day’). Last time I did was for the ‘Spider-Verse’ crossover and I only read that because Morlun was back. It’s been a while since I’ve read a spider-book in the main 616-cannon. PETER PARKER: THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, MY DINNER WITH JAMESON is one tale you won’t want to miss! Jonah Jameson’s got the scoop of the century - a once-in-a-lifetime interview with the menace of Manhattan…SPIDER-MAN!
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