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Review: 'The Megalomaniacal Spider-Man'

(Entertainment Weekly) -- This perfectly timed parody retells the origin of Spider-Man, just like the movie -- except that here, Spidey fights supervillains while thinking such heretical thoughts as ''Didn't I 'defeat' this lunatic last week? What a revolving door our justice system has become!''

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As written and drawn by indie-comics misanthrope Peter Bagge (''Hate''), this Peter Parker decides the superhero biz is ''all so...unhealthy!'' and, after reading too much Ayn Rand, becomes the greed-head CEO of Spider-Man, Inc.

He exploits his fans and turns down a fund-raiser for UNICEF, sneering, ''Are you out of your mind? You know how I feel about the U.N.!''

Who knew Marvel Comics had such a good sense of corporate humor? Of all the Spider-Man movie tie-ins, this one's the most subversive.

Grade: A