{"id":10554,"date":"2021-09-27T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=10554"},"modified":"2020-08-03T17:02:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T21:02:20","slug":"sm-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/09\/27\/sm-06\/","title":{"rendered":"SM 06"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Time to get back to Todd McFarlane\u2019s super dark Spider-Man. This story is darker than the last one, and the next one is darker than this. At least it\u2019s only 2 issues. What he\u2019s about to do to Hobgoblin is ridiculous. That difficult to read text at the top says this title won the Comics Buyer\u2019s Guide awards for Favorite Character, Favorite Penciler, Favorite Cover Artist and Favorite Letterer (Shout out Rick Parker, the only letterer other than John Workman I\u2019ve ever really taken note of). You\u2019ll note one role is conspicuously absent. Look at the size of Spidey\u2019s foot. Bigger than his head! What we can see of his torso just looks like a bag of meat or something. Hobby and Spider-Man don\u2019t seem able to really occupy that space at the same time. They\u2019re the same size, they must be right on top of each other. A really muddled cover to have the award for Favorite Cover Artist across the top. Also seems particularly weird to put the Batman logo on Hobby\u2019s bombs. Ah, well. I remember this story pretty well, and it\u2019s dreadful, so let\u2019s get it over with. Gregory Wright coloring. I guess 4 titles a month was too much even for good ol\u2019 Bob Sharen. At ANY rate\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a 2-page spread, we see Hobgoblin, who, as you may recall, is a demon now, having removed his mask to reveal his creepy demon face beneath, and he doesn\u2019t seem to know his real face is creepy. Forget anything we\u2019ve seen before regarding this character, because Todd certainly has. He\u2019s taken a bunch of people and strung them up in some unidentified weird goo all over a warehouse like he\u2019s the aliens from Aliens, saying he removed them from the streets because of their lies, and if anyone else slips out in the world, he\u2019ll deal with their blasphemy, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sooooo this is what we\u2019re doing. Hobgoblin is now some kind of Christian zealot who hears voices and whatnot and kills a kid\u2019s mom in front of him. Yaaaaaay. We cut away to Peter & MJ sleeping peacefully for no reason, zooming in on the spider on his suit as a way to segue to our surprise guest star.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yaaaaay. This is so what you want out of your Spider-Man comics! Oh, GR, we were just on a rollicking adventure together, and now look at us. GR hits the friggin child pornographer with his penance stare, and then just leaves him on the side of the road! Justice, indeed. At least another hero would\u2019ve taken him to the cops or something. This is one time I\u2019d be totally cool with Punisher murking somebody, but no, GR just leaves him to think about what he\u2019s done. This is gonna be a tough slog. Elsewhere, almost halfway through this issue, Spider-Man starts doing something. What he\u2019s doing is failing to sneak out of the house to go superheroing without waking MJ. Then he takes off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whatever. Hobgoblin takes his kidnapped child and blows up the warehouse full of his other victims, seemingly unaware that his bomb would kill them. I don\u2019t really care, man, I\u2019m already checked out on this one. Soon, cops are on the scene, letting us know 12 died and 15 lived, but all horribly disfigured, but they don\u2019t know how many people were in there yet. Rather hilariously, Ghost Rider watches their investigation from an alley, somehow unnoticed despite his flaming head. And then we hit a page more momentous than it would at first seem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHis past does not indicate any of this.\u201d Weirdly phrased, but correct! It\u2019s almost like this is wildly out of character! McFarlane nicked the idea of these TV talking heads from The Dark Knight Returns, and he will use them way, way, way too much in Spawn after this, but this is his first time doing it. Spider-Man webs up some coke head guy in an alley, saying he\u2019s been told this guy can tell him where Hobgoblin is. Then he dumps his coke on the ground and leaves. Meanwhile, Ghost Ride beats up another guy looking for info on Hobgoblin. Speaking of whom, he\u2019s babbling about sin and stuff to the child, who is now apparently fully indoctrinated into Hobby\u2019s new way of thinking. And then, off panel, Spider-Man says, \u201cYeah, yeah, I\u2019ve heard it all before.\u201d Really? That\u2019s your reaction to one of your enemies becoming a religious fanatic and kidnapper? \u201cYeah, yeah?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If there\u2019s one thing I always look for in my superhero adventures, it\u2019s the disfiguring of a child. Such a fun time! Obviously, I am not enjoying this. I certainly didn\u2019t as a kid, either. This was about as far from what I wanted from a Spider-Man comic as possible. And it was my hero doing it! What a betrayal! And he\u2019s only warming up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time to get back to Todd McFarlane\u2019s super dark Spider-Man. This story is darker than the last one, and the next one is darker than this. At least it\u2019s only 2 issues….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[560,275,163,21,2,274],"class_list":["post-10554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-ghost-rider","tag-gregory-wright","tag-hobgoblin","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-spider-man","tag-todd-mcfarlane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10566,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10554\/revisions\/10566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}