Review:
Yu is an average teen who's failing his classes, has no friends, and skips school to work out on a climbing wall. One day, he happens to find an abandoned and surprisingly well-made Spider-Man suit - and when he discovers that it includes web-slinging tech, he comes to the conclusion that it might actually belong to the real Spider-Man. When he gets spotted trying the suit on, he feels obligated to uphold Spider-Man's honor and fight nearby crime. However, he really is just an ordinary teen. Can he keep this up without getting himself killed? And what happened to the real Spider-Man?
This was somewhat disappointing, since I expected there to be more actual Spider-Man. Kudos to the writer for not making Yu and super-special teen who somehow magically figures out how to be a badass superhero when he puts on the suit, but that made it even more frustrating when one of Yu's classmates found out his secret (or thought she did - she assumed he was the real Spider-Man) and Yu never did anything to clear up the misunderstanding.
As far as the actual Spider-Man went, this turned out to be a Spider-Man and Venom story in which Spider-Man was trying to deal with being taken over by the symbiote. That part of the story isn't fleshed out very well at all, and in fact you have to read the notes at the end to fill in the details on how the volume's villain got hold of Venom in the first place.
All in all, this was just okay, from the story, to the characters, to the kind of clumsy attempt at adding an element of LGBT inclusion.
Extras:
Several full-color illustrations and a notes section with Easter egg breakdowns.
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