Amazing Spider-Man #4 - Enter Sandman

With the recent release of the third installment of the Spider-Man movie franchise, I thought that it might be a good idea to write a review about everyone's favorite wall crawler. It's been a while since I total shit talked Spider-Man, not since I did those reviews of the Spider-Man drug free and bicycle safety comics. So I figured, "Why the fuck not?" considering my last review of Spider-Man comics didn't lead to any pending litigation I should do it again.

Now when I first heard that one of the major villains in this movie was going to be the Sandman, my first reaction was: "What the fuck is Sam Raimi thinking? Sandman sucks!" and I stand by that assessment. Sandman is possibly one of the most pathetic Spider-Man characters, not only because he has stupid fucking powers, but he's just not that big a deal. I mean, figure it this way: The last two villains they chose for Spider-Man movies were characters who were huge pains in the ass for Spider-Man right from the get go. So they follow up using life-fucking bad-ass villains like the Green Goblin and Dr. Octopus by having a movie with the Sandman in it? Fuck on toast, I think the only way they could have picked an ever worse villain to use was if they decided to go with the Vulture....

... Oh by the way, I'm planning on releasing a Version 2.1 of my review later in the year to include out takes where it has alternate sentences of the one you just read above, where I say picking an even worse villain would require them making the Kangaroo or Hypno-Hustler the villain....

For the purpose of this review, we're going to take a look at Amazing Spider-Man (Vol 1) #4, which featured the first appearance of the Sandman, and take a look at his humble beginnings. Get yourself ready because this comic reaches near Pre-Crisis DC goofiness at some points!

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