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R.I.P. PETER...

Oni wat yoh perlu kobos?

His last breath...
I don't know if many of you out there realise this but, Peter Benjamin Parker (Yes, Benjamin is Peter Parker's real middle name...go find out in Wikipedia is you don't believe me) just died in July in the Ultimate Sipderman Series: The Death of Spiderman. Personally, Peter's death was a bigger loss than Clark Kent's simply because I think Spiderman had a more appealing storyline, with a strong attachment to the real world. So guess who killed him? The Green Goblin of course...his age old nemesis.

I was a comic junkie since I was 7 years old, and the first comic I read wasn't Mutiara Naga, Raja Rimba, Juara Wira or Pendekar Laut. It was actually The Spectacular Spiderman (and also The Dark Knight series) and to tell you the truth, I didn't have an easy time reading it coz, in the world of American brand comics, a superhero's story is intertwined in different layers and universes. I got the biggest headache trying to sort out the things happening in the X-Men Universe because too many things happen at one time and too many storylines take place simultaniously. Lucky for me, those days I kept my mind set on simply reading Peter Parker's Spiderman. 

Another reason for sticking to just one story was mainly because I could only afford one comic at a time. Hahaha...I use to buy it at this Mamak bookstore in India Street each time I had the opportunity to go to Kuching with any family member. It used to cost RM 6.80 per comic book and that was quite a big sum of money those days. But these days, I notice even the Hong Kong comics cost this much so you can imagine how much inflation is affecting people's interest in buying comic books.

Marks Belgey's artwork of Spiderman. He makes the jumps look so cool!
What I liked most about Spiderman especially in the 1990s was the artwork drawn by Mark Bagley coz of the way he drew Spiderman's postures and 'motion' was imaginative to the point whereby as a reader, you can really 'see' the dexterity and agility of Spidey's movements. The guys at Marvel really worked their hats off to bring out the lines and colours that make flipping the pages of the Spiderman comics a joy.

Miles Morales is the new Spiderman
So now that Peter's gone...is Spiderman also dead? Nope! His powers and superhero indentity exist in another teenager, and this time..the new Spiderman is Latino-Black. So the Spiderman story is being rebooted with a totally new alter-ego.That means I'll just have to reboot myself with the story once again, hahaha but it's a good thing..at least now, I have a comic storyline that I can honestly say I've read from the VERY BEGINNING.

So long Pete...
 Rest in peace Peter Parker....


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