Also: Friday Night Fights, starring Spidey vs. Psycho-Man!
What's awesome about comics is you get people punching each other. That probably makes me sound like a bad person, but that might only be because there's so much more behind that phrase but all I can do is sum it up with "people punching each other." Things like underdogs overcoming crushing odds. Like people blessed with talents and stretching them to their limits. Like brightly colored icons throwing brightly colored energies about. Like performing a complicated choreography of movement.
And the fact that the best physical battles really do mimic the internal battles that seem equally crushing, stretching, and complicated. Spider-Man takes all the great tragedy, overwhelming responsiblity, and personal determination that threatens to subsume him and fights back.
"And it's ALL MY FAULT… juslt like MARLA… just like UNCLE BEN. I didn't save him. He died because I was WEAK. Because I wasn't GOOD ENOUGH. I made a promise to him that day that I could NEVER be good enough to keep… but I swore I'd never stop trying.
I KNOW I'm not good enough. I never WILL be. That's no excuse to STOP FIGHTING. No matter how much it SCARES me. No matter how much it HURTS. Ben Parker taught me that. And NOTHING scares me more than letting him down."
From Amazing Spider-Man #661 (2011)
by Christos Gage, Reilly Brown, Victor Olazaba, and John Rauch
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