Yes, the Spider-Man: House of M mini goes above and beyond in explaining how the Scarlet Witch’s new reality impacts Peter, but this lack of story progression in the main book encapsulates one of the general frustrations I have with the comic book industry as a whole – why can’t a big idea just be explained within the series where it is first introduced? I understand that panel space is limited in an eight-part series but it’s completely disingenuous to end on such an ambiguously shocking note as House of M #1 does for it only to be explained in a separate mini-series.
The main series doesn’t actually return to Spider-Man/Peter’s story until many issues later. For example, the first issue of the series ends with Spider-Man being engulfed in a white light and then waking up in bed next to a beautiful blonde that I only figured was Gwen Stacy based on what I had read about House of M prior to sitting down and reading the actual comics. The premise of House of M is that Scarlet Witch goes crackers and creates a new reality that affects the entire Marvel universe and presents the mother of all “what ifs” for my favorite superhero: what if Uncle Ben and Gwen had lived, Spider-Man was revered as a hero, and the world thought Spidey was a mutant (in a world where mutants were loved rather than feared).Īs a whole, House of M is similar to some of the more recent Brian Michael Bendis events that present broad ideas that are interesting on the surface, but are inconsistently paced to the point that it detracts from the story. While this mini is far from a “Spider-Man story,” of all of Marvel’s big events from this timeframe, save “Civil War,” House of M probably presents the most interesting interpretation of Spidey which is then fleshed out even more by the corresponding Mark Waid, Tom Peyer and Salvador Larroca Spider-Man: House of M five-parter. House of M is yet another in a long line of mini-series/events Marvel produced in the early-to-mid 2000s that was off my radar thanks in large part to the fact that I had only JUST started to get back into buying monthly Spider-Man comic books at the same time (you can reference my Marvel Knights: Spider-Man and New Avengers #1-6 posts for additional context into this time of my life).
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