Mike Manley takes over inks this issue. Doing the homage without actually doing the homage requires a lot more thought. Kudos to the gang. Well, we’re in the future this month, presumably at or around this Hobgoblin’s point of origin. eE see a devastated surface and people living underground, in what essentially looks like a big mall, and one of the shops is ESU, where 2 people are arguing about saving the world.
It’s funny, I doubt the people who make it happen ever saw this, but she’s got a line on a Marvel event far in the future here, sort of.
Why would this guy call his daughter abbreviated versions of “Hobgoblin” if A) She’s his daughter, ad B) She’s not the Hobgoblin yet? This feels… not great… Well, he captures her, and she falls to the ground, and then she’s in old timey period clothing, and also in the famous Andrew Wyeth painting “Christina’s World,” lying in the grass, looking at a house. This turns out to be the temporal prison her dad put her in, but her guy there tries to bust her out with a nanovirus. And it goes wrong, of course, and she seems to go crazy, and we are STILL doing this. Who cares, can we get back to the real world yet? First that thing with the crazy stalker lady, then all that time with parallel Uncle Ben, did Peter David want to write Spider-Man or what? Gets loose, goes nuts, attacks guards. Spider-Man confronts love interest, then Hobgoblin appears and tosses a “retcon bomb” meant for her dad, but hitting her lover, wiping him from the timeline, I SO DO NOT CARE. The Spider-Man guy is watching all this on video, feeling bad about it. He’s part of a time control agency like the TVA, and Peter David could have just used the TVA instead of making up the “TNA” to do the exact same thing. They finally get around to learning she’s in 2006, and has pulled the wrong Uncle Ben there, and Spidey 22whatever wants to know what happened to the Spider-Man that Uncle Ben came from.
Three entire pages of this comic about its main character. Great value. This reads like a backdoor pilot for this other Spider-Man, perhaps Peter David hoping lightning will strike twice on future Spider-Men, perhaps not noticing this one looks extremely dumb.