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THE HIT '90s ANIMATED SERIES RETURNS! After searching to the ends of the Multiverse, PETER PARKER - the AMAZING, the SPECTACULAR, the RADIOACTIVE Web-Head himself - A.K.A. SPIDER-MAN, swings back into the streets of New York City with his beloved Mary Jane WATSON in tow! But what's this? One of these villains is not like the others: Witness this universe's debut of not one, but TWO of Spider-Man's greatest villains from the comics! Legendary Spider-Scribe J.M. DeMATTEIS and rising star artist JIM TOWE bring you the return you've all been waiting thirty years for! And you're never going to expect the twists and turns ahead for your friendly ne more
If you're going to do a comic series based on an animated series as beloved as Spider-Man, you HAVE to nail the artwork. Jim Towe & Jim Campbell absolutely excel at that and capture the look & feel of the series to absolute perfection. The artwork captures that nostalgic feeling you get from rewatching a beloved series years later. You can really tell how much care, love & effort went into their work and it really comes across the page. Read Full Review
Towe does an amazing job of capturing the visual style of the animated series while also enhancing and elevating it with the action and character moments. Read Full Review
J.M. DeMatteis, Jim Towe, and Jim Campbell's Spider-Man '94 #1 is truly a bittersweet. There's the sweetness of the bright colors and vibrant, yet cheesy in a 90s cartoon way banter between Spider-Man and Molten Man as well as the authentic emotionality of his interactions with Mary Jane, especially with how the animated series ended. But then there's the bitterness of DeMatteis and Towe's wholesale transposition of the spider totem part of JMS' Amazing Spider-Man run, Morlun, and all. Read Full Review
'Spider-Man '94' is off to a promising start, giving its animated hero a new lease on life and offering fans some surprising new threats. After such a long time, it feels like a miracle that this comic exists. Read Full Review
Ultimately, Spider-Man '94 #1 gets far more right than it does wrong. Despite the incongruities in the artwork, the story is a perfect continuation of the classic cartoon's cliffhangers. This series should prove a welcome slice of nostalgia for fans of the animated series. Read Full Review
Spider-Man '94 #1is a gift of nostalgia granted to those who don't squint too hard, the advertising pitch incongruent with the book's true narrative soul. As much as this does return us to the world of the classic animated series, this sings with the mid-to-late nineties voice of a J.M. DeMatteis who is still as sharp as he always has been. While a visual let done, there is nonetheless still much to appreciate as the team blends the Spider-Man lore of today into the semi-natural next steps of yesterday. Read Full Review
I wish we were getting the Mary Jane retrieval arc but oh well. This was still a solid start and feels like the old show. Would score it higher if Towe could draw faces. Everything else looks great tho. Peter especially has some ROUGH panels.
Used to love JMD but uhhh, couldn’t help but feel this story felt off.
The art…at times…is pretty bad
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