So much eyesore text in this era, my goodness. Ok, let’s wrap this up. Spidey’s in trouble, Doc’s in trouble. Doc is now racing back to his physical form, tho, a detail we didn’t get last time.
Isn’t it nighttime? Mid-morning?
Sure, ok. Strange hits his foe with a zap that reveals it was actually a couple of the little gremlins mooshed together via magic, now much easier to deal with small. If I have to read this awful dialogue, so do you:
The 90s have much to answer for. Spidey’s gambit results in Buel being chucked into the snowsnake dimension, and a lot of his “boyz” follow. Then Strange returns in astral form to interrogate the dummies who started all this. While he does, Spidey is once again drawn to some mysterious thing, so powerfully he can barely control himself, but Strange tells him it’s their responsibility to fix this, and him using that word makes Spider-Man flashback to his origin and then snap out of it. Uh, sure. So the good guys go through a portal, and Buel comes back from his portal spouting more painfully terrible dialogue, and then follows, making his goons drag the 2 dummies with them. The heroes go through many portals in a big montage until…
Here the book is interrupted by a big glossy spread advertising the Heroes Return relaunches of FF, Iron Man, Captain America and Avengers. And the stunt really did its job, these core Marvel properties that weren’t selling too well before being taken over by the Image studios returned strong and mostly stayed that way, both creatively and financially (FF less so than the others on both fronts, sadly). But, anyway, Spider-Man is distracted long enough for Buel to grab the thingie. A whole page of his horrible dialogue gets him to announcing he’s gonna turn our world into his. Whatever, man, I am really not invested. Doc Strange returns to his body and just instantly appears inside, despite them having to spend an issue and a half going through random portals to get there, and starts having a magic beam fight with Buel.
He does, tho, and in 2 pages cutting between Spidey action and Buel’s horrible dialogue, Spidey finds himself where he needs to go.
Buel “hilariously” called Strange “some ear, nose and throat guy” earlier.
Uncle Ben? Aunt May? Baby May? Ben Reilly? Mark Gruenwald? Who knows? An ambiguous ending to a misfire of an arc. We didn’t even get to the subplots this issue. Ah, well. Next time, something unusual.