Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt

Great story and good material books

The story is spider-man at its best, and honestly my favorite serious spider-man comic as apposed to some of the fun goofy stuff out there. the way the characters are written and think two or three things at once back and forth feels like such realistic dynamic internal dialog compared to the generic slosh you generally get. a good way to explain it is in most comics thoughts seem like broad statements on what someone is doing, here people think something and try to push the thoughts away with something else but they cant escape the thoughts nagging them. its just so well done and I think thats why people feel kraven is such a cool character in this because he feels so real! the story also gets compared to batman comics a lot but to me its a lot more like watchmen with all the symbolism involved in the panels.

I LOVED THIS BOOK! I got it at the recommendation of a friend and am I glad I listended. The story really isn't about Peter so much. Its really almost all about Kraven, and the lengths he'll go to to prove that he is the superior to Spiderman. He's always seen Spidey as an elusive prey, as the one creature that taunted him and beat him. But what happens when Kraven realizes that behind that mask and web shooters and powers, that Peter was just a regular nerd who got tapped on the shoulder by fate? That the one man who always beat him, was just that; a man.In short, the story is awesome. The whole of it takes place at night and in the rain, but it is a solid read. All the parts with Kraven had chills sent down my spine and just kept me wanting to read more. At the end, you even feel sad for Kraven, but even also a bit of respect for him, as he finally accomplished what he always wanted. To be the best hunter ever

Is said that the fear of spiders is a genetic memory, from the time distant ancestor lived in trees. This is the story of Kraven fighting that fear, or at least I read it in this way, in the shape of Spider-Man, we see little of Spider-Man after all. In the beginning Peter Parker says to himself who and what is him so the readers understand that Kraven's hunt is driven by the wish of a very old man to fulfill a last inconcluse task, but maybe a task build upon a misunderstanding. The fear of death, pain, defeat, taints the thoughts of all main characters, including the Vermin, whose participation is interesting too. Kraven is not mad, in part he is beyond our experience.Nevertheless although I liked it very much I didn't love it. The continuous use of the thoughts contaminated by the fears in all characters, including Mary Jane that could not be under the poisoned induced delirium by Kraven, is used without stop, so it loss its impact and made the monologues and dialogues a tad less natural to me. Zeck's art is very good and professional, he conveys very well the athletic and energical prowess of a giant as Kraven. In the writing side the work by J.M. DeMatteis is great. Stories like these are the reason I love to read adventures of Peter Parker: he has not the experience of a mature super hero to take his life for granted, he is like a stranded sidekick whose life is at risk by the older villains that have pleasure in attack him or the general public, because his youth, to blame him for everything.

Now I heard a rumor that Kraven the Hunter might be the villain in the third Spider-Man film. If Marvel Studios ever gonna do a third Spider-Man film with Kraven as the villain, then it should based on this story because this is the darkest '80s comic book story arc since "Daredevil: Born Again". It starts with Kraven defeats Spider-Man and then drugged him with a tranquilizer dart. Kraven buries Spidey alive and then wear Spider-Man's costume to fight crime. Luckily, Spider-Man rose out of his grave and went after Kraven. Shocking climax of Kraven kills himself with a rifle. However, the story ends when Spider-Man defeats a villain known as Vermin.Great graphic novel. I hope the third Spider-Man film will be based on the "Kraven's Last Hunt" story arc.

This was an amazing story I cannot believe I hadn't read. I loved this book. Nice and cheap too. Very well done. A terrific dark tale inside spiderman. Totally worth it.

Can’t beat this story, one of the all time classics. Dark and much more disturbing that most of what Marvel publishes. This story really has three main characters: Kraven, Vermin, and Spider-Man.

I'm not the biggest fan of marvel villains, and no almost nothing about Kraven, but you see the planning that he has done, and the pain he has caused Peter. I don't read much Spiderman, so I decided to give it a try, and it's the very best. Wish more story lines were like this.