Part 3, but also part 5. Fancy Mark Texiera cover. I wonder if he’s still doing the main GR book at this point. This month, Alex Saviuk does breakdowns with Joe Rubenstein and Dan Panosian finishing, and colors are by Bob Sharen and Renaee Witterstater. We pick up right where we left off, but switch to Spidey’s perspective as he’s dragged down a tunnel but those Deathspawn guys and trying to fight his way out. He manages to shoot a web and pull himself and the priest out, furiously recapping as he gets them up on the ceiling.
Meanwhile…
Spider-Man is your NUMBER ONE destination for toothy maws in 1992! Since when does Demo belong to a sect? Did he answer a personal ad? The demon N’Astrith didn’t seem to be too pressed about “demonkind” when he made Macendale a monster back in TAC 147. Some wacky revisionist history goin’ on here. As Venom and Doppelganger silently beat the crap out of each other, Demo goes on to say once his lil’ gang gets rid of all demons, they’ll start working on each other, and the last demon standing gets redeemed. Right-o, buddy! Meanwhile, Ghost Rider tries to take one of the Deathspawn captive, hit it with his penance stare to force it to tell him and Blaze where their prisoners are, but it just evaporates under his stare. Mackie’s doing an interesting job of keeping the focus of each title on its own characters while keeping the story moving. After 2 pages with GR & Blaze, we’re back to our guy.
He’s happened on the fire boys rather than the other fight. Ghost Rider has found the captives, and they’ve also found the Deathspawn preparing to feed on them, so it’s more fightin’ as the 3 heroes try to save the innocent folks. The priest comes bumbling in and needs rescued instantly, saying he couldn’t stay away if there was anything he could do. Spidey has an idea, and as he has the priest start leading the people further down the tunnel, he has Blaze shoot the ceiling, and then Spidey and GR snag it with their webs and chains and drag it down on top of the Deathspawn, narrowly escaping themselves. That looks like it’s gonna give them a chance to get everyone to safety, but then Spidey hears Macendale’s screams, and realizes he can’t leave him down here. Blaze, super tuff 90s guy that he is, obviously says they should leave him to die, but Spider-Man is Spider-Man, so…
And then…
Two “I’s” from Venom are out of place there. Spidey lights into Demo, who seems to have badly hurt Doppel by accident, and Venom starts working free in the background. And then, surprisingly, the Deathspawn are on them, and they target Demogoblin specifically, dragging him beneath the water.
Uh-oh. I have the sneaking suspicion next issue isn’t gonna have much Spider-Man in it. If any at all. We’ll see!