After countless setbacks, controversies, and casting changes, "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" premiered on Broadway this weekend for preview audiences. And though Spidey's debut on Broadway wasn't exactly spectacular, that doesn't mean U2 bandmates Bono and The Edge have anything but high praise for the mesh of comics and rock music found in "Turn Off The Dark."

In an interview conducted last week, the musicians elaborated on the connections between rock music and graphic novels, and the various ways they're describing the ambitious collaboration between themselves and "Turn Off The Dark" director Julie Taymor.

"There's always been a thing with punk rock bands and comics," Bono told MTV News. "It's always been there. Even The Ramones, who are also from Queens like Peter Parker and Mary Jane, they covered the theme to Spider-Man."

"It goes all through not just rock and roll culture, [but] all through modern art," he continued. "You see it in Roy Lichtenstein's work, the pop artists' work, they all sample from comics."

As for this particular piece of pop art, Bono volunteered the description he's using when he tells people about the show.

"[The show] is like a graphic novel, but a three-dimensional one," he said. "I'm calling it a pop-up, pop-art opera... because I'm pretentious. Julie's calling it what?"

"I think she's calling it a rock-and-roll circus drama," said The Edge.

"We don't really know what to call it, because there are so many aspects to it," he explained. "A great night out. I think that's what it is."

In the end, the pair agreed that "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" is an amalgam of just about everything — and something that they're hoping audiences have never seen before.

"It is elements of rock and roll, it's elements of circus, it's elements of opera and musical theater," said The Edge. "It is so many different things, and when we started the process, we promised we'd do something that hasn't been done before. And I think we've managed to do that."

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