{"id":2883,"date":"2009-01-16T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2009-01-17T11:42:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T11:42:24","slug":"spider-man-the-lost-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2009\/01\/16\/spider-man-the-lost-years\/","title":{"rendered":"SPIDER-MAN: THE LOST YEARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2884\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2884\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/spider-man-the-lost-years.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2884\" title=\"Spider-Man: The Lost Years\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/spider-man-the-lost-years.jpg\" alt=\"Spider-Man: The Lost Years\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/spider-man-the-lost-years.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/spider-man-the-lost-years-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spider-Man: The Lost Years<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>By J.M. DeMatteis, John Romita Jr. &amp; Klaus Janson (Marvel)<br \/>\nISBN: 978-0-78510-202-1<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n(UK Boxtree edition ISBN: 978-0-75220-359-1)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you mention \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Clone Saga\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to an older Spider-Man fan you&#8217;ll probably see a shudder of horror pass through the poor sap, although many will secretly profess to have liked parts of it.<\/p>\n<p>For the uninitiated: Peter Parker was cloned by his old biology teacher Miles Warren AKA the Jackal; defeated his double in a grim identity-battle, only to discover years later that he was in fact the doppelganger and a grungy biker calling himself Ben Reilly was the true, non-artificial man.<\/p>\n<p>Irrespective of how that saga played out, was retro-fitted, ignored, reworked and such-like, at the time this classy little book was released, that was the web-crawling state-of-play and that&#8217;s all the new reader needs to enjoy a cracking good read.<\/p>\n<p>Collecting a mini-series that ran parallel to the saga unfolding in the four regular monthly comics, this is the tale of what happened to the character who lost that Parker-on-Parker battle, going on the road across America and ending up trapped in a crime war in distant Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p>Dark and brooding, our hero-on-the-edge is embroiled in a drama of bloody betrayal made doubly deadly by Kaine: a flawed and degenerating Parker clone also created by the Jackal, now let loose with a deadly agenda of his own.<\/p>\n<p>DeMatteis is on terse, tense, top form and the bombastic art from Romita Jr. and Janson adds a rawness and gritty texture to this yarn which is utterly accessible to even the freshest Spider-phile. Well worth your time even if clones do make you shudder\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a9 1996 Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By J.M. DeMatteis, John Romita Jr. &amp; Klaus Janson (Marvel) ISBN: 978-0-78510-202-1 (UK Boxtree edition ISBN: 978-0-75220-359-1) If you mention \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Clone Saga\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to an older Spider-Man fan you&#8217;ll probably see a shudder of horror pass through the poor sap, although many will secretly profess to have liked parts of it. For the uninitiated: Peter &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2009\/01\/16\/spider-man-the-lost-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SPIDER-MAN: THE LOST YEARS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","tag-spider-man"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-Kv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}