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wingsofdamnation
10-09-2005, 02:58 PM
love? hate it? personally i hated it but im sure theres plenty of people who saw some potencial in this character. seriously whachathink
Young Avenger
10-09-2005, 03:23 PM
I got all four issues of Spider-Man india. I thought it was decent. The mystical aspects of the story didn't go well with me but I beared with it since Indian culture is much more mystic than sci-fi.
...Indian culture is much more mystic than sci-fi.
Yeah, and seeing the ways in which the writer juxtaposed the decidedly western Spider-man mythology with the more traditional Indian elements was what really made the mini cool for me.
That and the art....loved the art.
Bearpod91
10-09-2005, 07:37 PM
Why's he in India?
Never got the issue and I actually never heard of it before.
Young Avenger
10-09-2005, 07:45 PM
Why's he in India?
Never got the issue and I actually never heard of it before.
He never went to india. Spider-Man India was a 4 issue mini-series of an indian Spider-Man.
streator
10-09-2005, 09:30 PM
how did this sell? any figures?
/i passed, not interested in it
//i am interested though in how it sold, or more specifically why marvel published it and what they gained
Artemis1
10-09-2005, 09:40 PM
Read it at a book store. Didn't like it.
Venom
10-10-2005, 06:29 AM
Bought all four issues. I thought it was very good and it does have potential, they might make it ongoing if it sold well but I don't know if it did sell well.
Murrocko
10-10-2005, 02:31 PM
What was the name of anime-ish version of Spider-Man?
OrochiNaga
05-20-2006, 10:48 AM
I like the idea - but not the end effort - for starters, they could have just kept him a 'mutant' - there is nothing special about India that required him to be mystical - they just did that thinking it would be cool to infuse mythology...
The art was beautifull, and worth buying just for that (Jeevan Kang has some major talent), but the story was just a re-hash in an Indian setting. Im more interested in the new original Indian comics that Virgin are doing.
Im not sure if adapting things to new settings is a good idea - Indians can easily indentify with the original Spider-Man, so it was just a gimmick - yet also a gimmick that had to be tried at some point. Worth all collectors, and people interested in Indian comics, getting I guess
protege
05-20-2006, 11:58 AM
It would have been tricky, considering how devout indians are in their religous beliefs.
Billy Parker
05-20-2006, 07:10 PM
I read issue #1 and it sucked so bad I could not continue. The art was beautiful but I thought at the same time misguided, so in a sense the art actually sucked bad. I thought they drew Peter and uncle Ben all wrong. They made Peter a supermodel American looking boy. They should have made him look different. Maybe if it seemed like they were ACTUALLY in India and that he was actually Indian, I think that would have been interesting.
Maybe if it seemed like they were ACTUALLY in India and that he was actually Indian, I think that would have been interesting.
The story was set in India. I'm not sure how they could have made it more like it was "ACTUALLY in India," since it was in India.
The series had several India-centric elements too, enough to merit a modest glossary in some of the issues.
Sorcerer Supreme
05-21-2006, 11:41 AM
I saw it and didnt bother picking it up, the pants put me off
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