The Night Gwen Stacy Died

I came across this comic on a list of recommended reads from a YouTube channel called Variant comics. The Night Gwen Stacy died was one of their top listed recommendations.

If you have watched the Spider-man movies, this one loosely ties in with the Toby McGuire versions. The comic story is actually pretty damn tragic and somewhat troubling. I can’t believe how brutal Stan Lee could be! There are some major differences between the movie and the book, but the story is very similar.

If you’ve only watched the movies, then you’d think that his love interest was always and only MJ. This is actually true across most of the movies I’ve ever seen. However, as is evident by this comic, that has not been the case. In fact, I don’t know if Peter Parker and MJ are ever together in the comics. I haven’t gotten that far into them.

So one thing that I didn’t really understand was why everybody in this comic book series is so damn angry. If you look at the expressions on all of their faces, including Peter Parker, the police officers, Norman and Harry Osborn, I mean everybody has these crazy freaking expressions on their faces.

I will admit that I was also surprised to see that even Peter Parker was a bit of a jerk to some people. Harry is all strung out on drugs and Peter treats him pretty nasty. I didn’t expect that.

As the comic progresses, I understand that he’s pretty upset about Gwen Stacy dying, I get it then. But overall, Parker needs to get that anger under control.

I’m fairly new to comics and I think that some are better than others. I would love to see an updated version of this story with some current art and perhaps updated language. This one is fairly old and some of the language and references are kind of dated, but that doesn’t stop it from being a magnificent read. This story, though tragic is still pretty good and has given us some great films over the years. Even if they changed his actual love interest.

If you are a fan of Spider-man then you will enjoy this story. Though like I said, it is pretty damn dark. Don’t go expecting any happen endings around here.