iFanboy has scans up (now posted in hi-res elsewhere) from Entertainment Weekly’s “Amazing Spider-Man” cover story. The piece itself is so much P.R.-driven fluff (EW, after all) but there’s some new stuff to see: Action poses of the new suit (still looks like an overdesigned mess to me, and the least-likable thing about the Raimi-era suit – the “texture” stuff – is turned up to eleven) first look at Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben (MEGA-SPOILER!!! He looks like… Martin Sheen in a work shirt!!!) and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy.
The big “nerd-minutiae” stuff is real, visual confirmation that the web-shooters are oldschool mechanical – which pretty-much everyone has known for over a year now (yeah, I’ll brag about it – called it right off the bat as the easiest bit of fanservice they could do) but it’s still nice to see.
Still no explanation for Spidey’s odd metal toe-shoes – at least, no official one. It’s not solid enough for me to “tip my hand,” but some of the early rumbles suggest that the “source” of Peter’s powerset (and maybe even transformation/origin itself) are getting a major overhaul that leans heavy on the home-made-hero angle; so take that for what you will.
MOVIEBOB CENTRAL 
Hold on, THAT suit is supposed to lean heavy on the home-made-hero angle?????????????
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Wow. This looks more and more like the Twilight-ing of Spiderman the more I see it. Color me uninterested. I'll wait until Marvel gets the rights back
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Well I certainly buy that he's playing an awkward teen Spidey because he sure as hell looks like it in that getup.
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Not a fan of the costume, but I do really like Garfield. I'll have to wait and see for this one.
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That hair… just yuck.
Does any woman here honestly find Edward Cullen's hairdo attractive?
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The only things that don't work for me are Garfield's hair (they couldn't cut or style it to something better?) and Aunt May looks a little too young to resemble an iconic character.
On the whole, I'll wait until I see a trailer before I determine whether I'm truly interested or not. Still, I'm calling MovieBob to hate this more than he hated Green Lantern.
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So how exactly is this “not” a reboot again?
Also, I think the costume design is really cool, but I still hate it for reasons I can't quite put my finger on. Spidey's had a lot of different costumes over the years so I'm okay with different designs. I really loved the design in the Raimi films. I loved that, at a time when other Marvel heroes were donning black leather, Raimi actually stuck to the iconic Spider-Man costume, just with some minor tweaks. I liked the texture and the logo designs on it. But I hate the texture on this one. I think it's because with the Raimi costume, it still looked like cloth, while this looks like rubber. Too shiny.
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The cheap shot at geeks in the article was a classy touch.
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I'd call that less a cheap shot and more a statement of fact.
I don't like the costume much, but a more “home-made-hero angle” actually sounds pretty intriguing to me, since it would emphasize the whole “Peter Parker: Scientific Genius” thing, that I hear often gets neglected.
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Can't say I noticed the hair one way or the other. The guys his hot, I love his face, I don't care what's on top of it.
I guess it is puffy though. Meh. I like it better than Tobey Maguire's Spiderman. Then again I was always distracted by the guy's bulging eyes so I can't remember what his hair looked like either.
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We already had First Class, we can't expect them to all be good.
It looks poor, and they've managed to ugly up Emma Stone, something I didn't believe was possible. It looks like a Green Lantern style stinker, and I'm calling it now.
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