Like other people who didn't get to go to SDCC, I was content to try and forget it was happening. But something yesterday woke me from my self-induced SDCC-blindness: The Amazing Spider-Man trailer hit the web.

This movie is a reboot of the series starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone—and reboots mean that we’re back to the part of the Spidey story I love: The Beginning.

For me, Spider-Man is the Teen superhero title. You’ve got Peter Parker, who still attends high school, balancing his attempts at a love life, an afterschool job, homework, and amazing spider powers that manifest at awkward times. Who can't relate to that?

I realize in the comics Pete grows up and he gets married to Mary Jane Watson and then retcon says he didn’t get married.Either way, he’s still a high school science teacher who he comes out to Aunt May—and then the world—as Spider-Man. Yeah, it would be super cool to learn your science teacher is Spider-Man, but I find those awkward first years of his web-slinging to be the interesting part of his story.

Aside from the fact that it appears to be channeling a little of the I Am Number Four vibe, the trailer has me thrilled.

Andrew Garfield is adorable. He’s been in wonderful—and strange—roles like a pig-faced guy in a two-parter of Doctor Who (Series 3) and Anton in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which is the movie featuring the last role of the late Heath Ledger. Oh yeah, and that Facebook—I mean The Social Network movie.

Plus, Emma Stone as Gwen Stacey. Emma Stone was in Easy A—which is arguably the best teen movie in years (I watched it because of the Indigo TV & Movie blog's review).

This is a power-house winning combination, right? So why the trailer to make viewers go “…what movie is this supposed to be?” Obviously, from the lack of Mary Jane Watson and Harry Osborn this reboot is trying to be different.

The first movie with Toby Maguire was pretty decent and I liked the second one, but that third one kind of hurt. So I can see why the director of The Amazing Spider-Man would want to distance this new film. Also this is the teaser trailer, so it's been edited together to get viewers intrigued and excited and then have them go “wait, this is Spider-Man?! But it looks so different!”

Doing things to be different isn’t new to Spider-Man. I started reading Ultimate Spider-Man, written by Brian Michael Bendis, and it was supposed to be a fresh new take for a new generation (the 2002 Spider-Man movie sort of drew on Ultimate Spider-Man).

Ultimate Spider-Man seemed to understand that it was high school Spidey who made the best stories. But it started over 10 years ago, so I can see the hesitation of new readers to try to catch-up to the action. If you’re wanting a series to really, really sink your teeth into… you can start with Ultimate Spider-Man volume one.

If you want to start with something more recent, you can try Ultimate Comics Spider-Man: The World According to Peter Parker and follow it up with Chameleons. The newest volume, Prelude to the Death of Spider-Man, came out in hardcover earlier this month.

They are technically continuing the story of Ultimate Spider-Man. But if you know the background of Spider-Man and you’re all right getting thrown into a new situation head-first, you can probably find your feet narratively speaking.

Really, you’ve got time to read the comics. The Amazing Spider-Man doesn’t swing into theatres until July 3, 2012.