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The Origin Story

Welcome Fellow comic lovers to the first, suitably actionpacked, issue of Kerrpow! My limited edition blog on the ever changing faces and maskes of the Comics industry. To start, lets tackle the the big boys by doning our secert identities, taking to the rooftops and going toe-to-toe with Marvel. Marvel Comics has always been a great source of pleasure to me, continually managing the balance between the new wave of dark antiheroism and its own playful 60's roots. However, I fear that this may be their downfall. Unlike their biggest rivals, DC, who over the last 70 years have been forced to evovle both their writing and artistic styles in order to remain relevent to modern readers, Marvel has remained largely unchanged since the goldern era of the mid 90's. Peter Parker, dispite going through the kind of daily truma that would drive lesser men isane, remains the "friendly" neibourghood Spiderman Now I'm not saying that this doesn't work, Marvel comtinues to m