Rayboy's Review: The Spider #1 (Moonstone)

The gang over at Moonstone has done it again. Writer Martin Powell and artist Pablo Marcos serve up an eerie, cool & atmospheric adventure of the Master of Men in The Spider #1. I’ve read plenty of the original pulp magazine stories of Doc Savage, The Avenger, The Shadow, Tarzan, etc., but I haven’t read a single Spider tale. This means that although I am somewhat familiar with the character, I was able to read this issue without predispositions. You've just gotta love that awesome Dan Brereton cover too!

That worked to my advantage and it allowed me to appreciate Powell’s story on its own merits. If you like zombies, two-fisted adventurers who prefer to kick ass and take names and to hell with the consequences, The Spider #1 might suit you. Pablo Marcos is well established in the industry and he brings to bear some topnotch visual storytelling cues that propel this half of the book to its bone-chilling conclusion. I also really appreciated the three color look of this books coloring. It added a great deal of wallop to the overall tension of the events playing out on the page. If I’m not mistaken, The Spider was always a bit harder edged than some of his pulp-era contemporaries and that dynamic is evident here, although perhaps softened ever so slightly to appeal to a more diverse readership that has certainly become somewhat jaded on hardcore violence over the last couple of decades due to the influence of entertainment media.

Thus, the simple straightforward manner in which the lead character and his supporting cast are introduced, works even better by simply getting down to the business of telling a "kicking" action yarn. I hope that The Spider works his magic on readers, so that he sticks around for a while. Recommended!
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