Amazing Spider-Man issue number 622.

February was full of “big deal” comic book news. Copies of Action Comics and Detective Comics set sales records, DC made some high-profile management changes and Comic-Con announced it might leave San Diego for Anaheim. But rather than add my words to the many which have already been written about those topics, I’d rather rant about a one-page scene from the Feb. 24 issue of “Amazing Spider-Man.” What was so special about issue number 622? Well, in it, writer Fred Van Lente sends Peter Parker to a vampire bar. Trendy, I know. But it’s not the plot point that’s interesting in and of itself. It’s what someone says to Peter as soon as he enters the club. Wearing fishnets on his arms and other cliche goth accoutrements, Peter gets criticized for looking like he’s just stepped out of 1992. “Myths change,” a character says to him. “They evolve with the times.” Observing the other clubgoers, Peter realizes this.