It’s ladies night at the Stomp On Spider-Man Cafe. We pick up right from the end of last issue with a tense stand off. Hammerhead identifies Elektra as Fisk’s goon, gets her to admit what he’s paying her, and says he’ll double it, right now.
Ya can’t trust that Black Cat!
“Hey, Bags, we’re making you do 16.5 issues a year, but what if you had to draw 500 people, also?” The inset panels are an interesting choice.
As the fighting continues, Spider-Man gets fed up and just starts webbing everyone, and soon, he’s got the whole room stuck to the walls, good and bad guys alike. He starts berating everyone for their choices, then pulls a phone out of a goon’s pocket to call the cops. Hammerhead tries to threaten him, but he gets a web in the mouth. He calls 911 and gets an operator who loves him, says he saved her brother, and who happily connects him to Jean Deeee Wolffeee. Shang-Chi reminds Spider-Man they’ve met, tries to talk his way out of a web, but Spidey says he’s just gonna keep everybody up there til the cops arrive, then he’ll explain who’s who. Moon Knight loses his temper.
This was going so well, too.
Just when I think I know all Bagley’s moves, he gives me that extremely Ditko Spider-Man in panel 2. I like being surprised! Elektra and Moon Knight both make a beeline to kill Spider-Man, with Black Cat trying to get in the way, and all that allows Hammerhead to put a gun to the back of Spidey’s head in the confusion, which Black Cat sees coming.
So does she have bad luck power? I think she did last time, but it’s not come up this story.
“Trillian” was a poster on the Bendis Board. Like so many others, she got her name immortalized in a Bendis comic, and like me, it was her made up internet name, not her real name, so it’s hard to claim.
Elektra proceeds to absolutely beat the crap out of Spider-Man, using her momentum to just ninja him to bits before uppercutting him right out a window. He falls onto a car on the street below.
That looks bad! He almost managed to wrap all this up without anyone getting hurt, and it comes to this. It’s hard being a superhero.