Early Morning Workout
With the start of a new monthly series I figured I'd give it a shot. It was a pretty decent first issue. The story revolves around Peter needing some money because Michele is painting the apartment and since she is a lawyer she basically connives her way into making Peter split the paint job. Needing money he tries various ways and eventually has a run-in with a villain and his usual Parker luck. Also the involvement of three High School girls will no doubt lead to trouble. There is also a co-feature written by Stan Lee, which is pretty cute I guess.
The Good
The art wook is actually pretty good in this issue, I prefer it over ASM, but there are some variations. Also without a doubt Spider-Man's jokes at the expense of Jonah's Spider-Man hunting squad. It made me chuckle. Also the Co-Feature was vastly entertaining.
The Bad
This book is entitled Peter Parker and I understand that Peter is Spider-Man, but for the limited amount of time he does appear, he appears mostly as Spider-Man. I could read this in ASM if that's what it's going to be, he is literally Peter Parker on 3 pages. With that being said, half of the pages in the main story are attributed to Jonah and these High School girls. Maybe I'm taking the title too literally, I don't know.
The Out of Order
On the intro page he tells that this is a story before the Gauntlet with Peter still working for the Front Line. Since this is pre-Gauntlet it's pre-600, which is before I picked up the series, so I don't know. I'm not a fan of comics jumping out of order.
Overall it was a decent read. It's worth at least taking a look at, but the cliffhanger all but assures that you're going to want to see the next issue to see whats going on. The co-feature was actually really entertaining, so I would probably buy this issue for that alone because it pushed the rating up to 3.5