Yesterday Disney released a new trailer for Captain America: Civil War and, while the trailer showed us some stuff we’ve seen and other, lengthier takes, we were also treated to some interesting new material.

Of the new material presented, the most intriguing occurs at the tail end of the trailer where we finally get to see a certain web-slinging wise-guy make his first formal appearance in the Disney Marvel Universe films:

And the fanboys go wiiiiillllllldddd!

Seriously,  People went crazy for this.  Over on i09 James Whitbrook offered an entire post dedicated to screen grabs/gifs of Spider-Man’s appearance in the trailer:

Here’s our best look at Spider-Man’s fabulous new costume

And for the most part comments were positive.

For the most part.

Me?  I’m not all that impressed.

In fact, and I hate to say this considering how much I enjoyed the Rousso brother’s previous Captain America film, The Winter Soldier (I consider it one of the best superhero films ever made, second only to Richard Donner’s Superman), but the trailer left me rather cold.

Perhaps to some it’s going to sound like heresy but here goes: I think the above trailer is weak soup compared to the latest/last Batman v. Superman trailer.

To begin, the visuals (we’ll find out soon enough how the stories compare) alone blow Captain America: Civil War away.  The B v S trailer, further, just feels a hell of a lot more exciting.

But let’s get back to Spider-Man and his new costume.  Thanks to Jaren Cole over at Byrne Robotics I can cut-n-paste his handy reference regarding the various Spider-Man costumes presented over the previous few years:

and finally…

If I had to pick which one I liked the most, I’d go with Amazing Spider-Man 2, then the Sam Raimi Spider-Mans, then Amazing Spider-Man 1.

Alas, I feel the Spider-Man presented in the Civil War trailer, while certainly not horrible, is nonetheless the version I like the least, though I will admit I liked the way the whites in his eyes narrowed (this is a cool tip of the hat to the comic books which hasn’t been used in the films -at least to my awareness- until now).

So there you have it.

While people will no doubt soon enough argue the merits (or lack thereof) of the film to come, at least to me the “new” look of Spider-Man -as well as the overall look presented in Captain America: Civil War– isn’t doing all that much for me at this point.

POST-SCRIPT: It suddenly occurs to me that both Batman v Superman and Captain America: Civil War seem to be dealing with roughly the same idea: How does humanity react to super-beings capable of inflicting mass destruction as presented in previous films?

Interesting…