Spider-Man: Homecoming - 11 Things From The Comic You Need To Know

5. It's Not An Action-Packed Issue

Despite the fact that this issue saw the "debut" of the symbiote suit and Spidey's new powers, it's not exactly a rip-roaring issue. It sees Spider-Man playing around with his new powers and patrolling the city, but it's more like a post-origin story, with the hero flexing his muscles rather than taking on any major threat. It's probably best to think of it as a pause after the excitement of Secret Wars.

It also actually comes from a period for Spidey that was pretty silly. After Secret Wars represented a new beginning of sorts for Spider-Man, following issues see him battle match fixing in football, battle Jack O Lantern, Red Ghost and his Super Apes, Rose and Puma: not exactly watershed moments.

How It Would Work In The Film

We're being led to believe that the film will be inspired by John Hughes films, so hopefully we're going to see more focus on Spider-Man coming to terms with his superpowers. Inevitably, that also means that once again we're going to get the superpowers as puberty metaphor