Fearful symmetry\ in the forests of the night.\ Immortal hand-eye.#HAIKUPRAJNA - The Amazing Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt
Will be adding more comic trade paperbacks to my reviews, starting with "Kraven's Last Hunt" by J.M. DeMatteis and Mike Zeck, which collects six issues across three Spider-Man series ("Amazing", "Web of" and "Spectacular").
Literary symbolism plays a key role within the plot; to understand and become his prey, Kraven uses mysticism to consume a representation of whoever he's hunting, which he also uses to consume his prey in fear. Kraven consumes and becomes the idea of the Spider in order to overcome the Spider's fear of being consumed by or being seen as Vermin. In the end, when he has "bested' Peter by proving himself to be the superior Spider, Kraven himself knows he had failed in being a better "Spider-Man", as even Mary-Jane knew right away that he was not Peter. Peter won against Kraven in the same symmetrical way, consuming a superior "Spider", in order to overcome his own mortal terrors.
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Allen W. McLean
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