{"id":13123,"date":"2022-05-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=13123"},"modified":"2021-04-04T13:09:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T17:09:39","slug":"sm-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/05\/20\/sm-10\/","title":{"rendered":"SM 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We\u2019re back with Wolverine running to go save the hunters who shot Wendigo, thinking, among other things, \u201cA few dead kids and all sense of reasoning disappears.\u201d Yeah, man, it\u2019s only a few dead kids, what\u2019s the big deal? Inking this month is credited to \u201cTodd and friends.\u201d In a 2-page spread across pages 2 & 3, Wendigo is\u2026 I guess defending himself? It\u2019s weird, hunters are flying everywhere, but he\u2019s not touching them. Todd, I have only been realizing on this re-read, isn\u2019t great at action. A bit better here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don\u2019t know all that much about The Wendigo, but I know it\u2019s fought Hulk multiple times and Wolverine multiple times and both of them at once one time, all in the era before you could show much violence, so he never got too injured. The idea that he could do all that and isn\u2019t bulletproof seems a stretch. Even though it looks like he\u2019s shredding those dudes, all but one just run away on the next page. Wendy is about to get that guy when\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA banshee?\u201d \u201cA noise like broken glass across sheet metal?\u201d Is Todd implying Wolverine lunges into battle going \u201cEEEEEEEEEE?\u201d Wolverine tells the guy to leave, and he does. Logan isn\u2019t using his claws, doesn\u2019t actually want to hurt Wendigo, just keep it busy til all the dudes escape. Meanwhile, MELVIN GOONER wakes Peter Parker up in the middle of the night because some of those guys are already back in town? Except Wolverine is still fighting Wendigo on the next page? What, did they teleport? I\u2019m thinking Todd has only fully inked one page so far. Seeing all the different approaches is interesting. Some are so close to his own only the most minute details make me think it\u2019s someone else. Others are way, way different. Can\u2019t hazard a guess most of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the next page, a surviving hunter is grilled by a mob of reporters, and new, sensational news headlines are shown, and on the following page\u2026 Logan is still fighting the Wendigo. Time is an illusion. Logan rips his shirt off and screams a challenge at Wendigo, and that makes the creature pause. Then it slowly shuffles back off into the woods to heal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Somehow, Peter doesn\u2019t know who that was. As he switches to Spider-Man some 2 hours later, he thinks the voice sounded familiar, and the guy didn\u2019t set off his danger sense. Then he spends 2 pages swinging into the woods saying things like \u201cI don\u2019t know anyone in Canada\u201d like he\u2019s just clueless until\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Several documented cases of them meeting with him in that suit on this blog, but proceed) Wolverine tells Spider-Man he wants him to help take away the motivation for the various people making a spectacle. Spider-Man says he\u2019ll need facts. It\u2019s very stilted dialogue. Then Wolverine finally mentions some useful info: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These days, these would\u2019ve been 2 pages of 9-panel talking heads. I think I kinda prefer this method, in fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the last 9 pages of this issue was necessary to tell the story, or offered anything of value whatsoever. Goodness. On the letter page, Todd says he was sick for a week and a half, and so had to call in some inking support. The pages were finished by Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, Scott Williams, and Rick Magyar. One of those names is not like the others. But I think I can guess who did what with the names. I couldn\u2019t have back then, tho, and that\u2019s too bad, because editor Jim Salicrup mentions one random letter writer who guesses them all correctly will receive a page of original art. That\u2019d be an actual investment, unlike these comics people were buying as investments (A guy in the letters says he bought 3 copies). 2 more issues in this storyline. 3 issues and only 1 fight sequence! Literally no one else would\u2019ve been able to get away with that in a Marvel comic at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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