Welcome back to more… of this. It’s been some time since we had Ye Olde Mac Gargan tries to kill JJJ on the blog. Normally we don’t run a recap page here, but this one’s too weird to ignore:
Alrighty. I guess that was very funny to someone. One Rob Disalvo pitches in on pencils this month, with 4 people on inks and 3 on colors, still including Bachalo. I’m going to go out on a limb and say he shouldn’t be trying to color his own work on a monthly project.
Well, that plan didn’t work. What device is Ricardo meant to be holding there? Looks like a Gameboy (Kids, ask your parents). Meanwhile, Venom is eating a squirrel, telling us he used to date a girl who trained them, and they’re like “squirmy popcorn.” Then the reason he’s hanging out in a park shows up.
Just pasted a photo of a building in back there, wow. Rolling Sevens is the pet gang Brian Reed made up for his Marvel work. It’s also been awhile since we got a proper fake gang around here.
Hey, I don’t like this comic. I’m just saying it for the record. It’s so funny how my instincts for skipping stuff were so good by this point, and here I am, subjecting myself to so much of it ages after the fact. Venom comes through that window down there and tells them 2 guys from Rolling Sevens ratted them out. Then he beats everyone up, proud to have started a gang war, and also inexplicably has more groupie girls after. Quick cut to JJJ and his staff fuming about rising gang violence, then we’re off to that “Redeemer” guy doing group therapy for his various Z-listers, including the Hippo.
My God, Magnum. I have to read 2 more issues after this.
Group therapy just keeps getting stupider, and reveals the big red guy to be a very dumb riff on Watchmen’s Dr. Manhattan. Can we get on with it?
Sure, whatever. Meanwhile, JJJ is trying to ply Norman Osborn to assign an Avenger to New York to be “the face of crimefighting.” Norman thinks he knows who to send. Gee, who could it be?
Surely we’re not pretending JJJ can’t tell that’s not the real Spider-Man. Surely. We probably are. This seems like that kind of book. 2 more of these….