And we close out the series with… some guys. It’s funny, I can tell just by looking at it that the artist is Italian. It looks a lot like Eduardo Risso. It’s funny how there’s regional looks. You know, manga has many many styles, but generally looks like manga. Italian comics tend to have a look. And it’s one I like, here courtesy of Alberto Dose. I am equally unfamiliar with writer Brian Patrick Walsh. Neither of these guys has a wikipedia entry, a first for this series, I think. That kinda tells you where we’re at. Again, no slight to them at all, but this book launched with “I can’t believe they got Ennis and McCrea!” and ends with “Wait, who?” But let’s see what they got.
Like dat bottom panel!
The business with the windshield wiper up top is nice, too. Murphy speeds off, only to find the suspects in a big web in an alley nearby. Suddenly where at the 15th precinct, where the baddies have been detained and the wife of the shopkeep is there as an unreliable witness. We’re told she ID’d one of the detectives as one of her assailants in a line-up, she’s not to be trusted. Their captain thinks they got a good case brewin until…
So this comic is going to be Law & Order: Spider-Man Victims Unit, I guess. Getting nothing from that guy, the detectives go see the other one, and we move to 2 suits watching the interrogation, thinking the case doesn’t look good. They say without a confession, the judge will throw case in their faces. One says the “Spider-Man Defense” is more popular than insanity these days, and the other tells him the last 3 “skells” (Walsh is really loving “skells” like it’s the 80s) Spider-Man gave them walked. Then it’s back to the 2 detectives good cop/bad copping the 2nd suspect.
Well, the detectives try all manner of tactics to get the guy to incriminate himself, and while they’re working him over, his lawyer shows up. It’s all pretty standard stuff. If you’ve ever seen cop TV, you know.
And that’s the game. Spider-Man ruins the case, Peter Parker saves it. And that’s also it for this series. The very mixed bag, mostly non-essential, sometimes entertaining Tangled Web is finally done. I have really been itching to get back to the real books during most of this. But instead, we’re headed back to the Ultimate Universe. Which is frankly better, but it’s just hard to switch mindsets.