The long-awaited debut of “Spider-Man India”:
Gotham Entertainment Group (GEG), based in Bangalore and New York, has launched four issues of the comic in the United States and will introduce the first of the four-part series in India next month, in a deal with Marvel Enterprises Inc. [Reuters/Yahoo!]
The first issue is available directly from the publisher. Possible drinking game: Take a shot every time you catch a peek up Pavitr Prabhakar’s dhoti.
Oh good lord. Now THAT'S a drinking game I'll happily take part in. He looks kinda hot.
Its not bad actually. Its being done by Indian writers as well, so the stories are interesting. Green Goblin is like a rakshasa, and Uncle "Bhim" gets killed in an alley ala "great powers comes greate responsibility." Also Pavitr gets his powers from a yogi. Neat.
I just read this this weekend. It's actually not bad - the art and inking is really nice, and the storyline is interesting. I especially like the way it's been re-written in an Indian context (there's even a glossary at the end of each story with explanations for the Indianized terminology - eg Bhaijaan, salwar-kameez, Shahrukh Khan). My only beef: I wish they'd stuck to the radioactive spider as the reason for Spider-man's 'powers', instead of giving it a supernatural twist.
