A comiXologist recommends:
Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #1

by: Jonah Chuang

Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows is pretty great. It brings back the Peter Parker: Spider-Man that many of us grew up with and still love. For veteran fans, reading this book is a lot like you grew up with a favorite restaurant, then one year they tore it down and you were sad but the new restaurant they put up in its place was pretty good so you kept going, then one day you walk in and find that the original restaurant is there again!

One of the most appealing things for me about Spider-Man is the Average Joe aspect of his characterization. The pre-Brand New Day Peter Parker was married to MJ and swung around New York fighting bad guys and had marital and career problems. He was very relatable. This book plops Peter and MJ back in that setting again, but changes the world around them into a crazy, dangerous, and exciting alternate society. Even if you’re not a Spidey veteran reading this book for nostalgia’s sake, this book has got crazy fights, great art, and pretty good character development.

It opens with a classic fight about Peter juggling home life and Spider-Man-ing, then ramps up into a mystery surrounding dead and missing New York super-heroes. Without giving too much away, Peter is faced with having to choose between helping with an omega-level threat to the city and dealing with a danger to his family, and his choice has some real serious consequences.

ASM: Renew Your Vows was the book that I was most excited about in this Secret War event, and it did not disappoint. It’s a very well executed return to the amazing Spider-Man of yesteryear, and I can’t wait to see what impact this has on Peter for the stories to come.

[Check out Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #1 on comiXology]

Jonah Chuang is a Production Coordinator Assistant at Comixology. He has always considered Peter and MJ to be the ideal couple (unless it’s the cinematic ASM, because there it’s Peter and Gwen for sure).