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Who could it be? Todd has only really set up one suspect. Jim Lee\u2019s longtime collaborator Scott Williams is back to ink 2 pages this month, and one of them is obviously the splash:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Todd is obviously in a hurry on the art this month. That time he was down sick seems to have really gotten him behind. Logan won\u2019t hear any of Spidey\u2019s protests, and neither will Wendigo, howling at the suggestions. Logan says he\u2019s going to town to finish this, and Spider-Man\u2019s staying here. He even threatens to expose his secret identity if he doesn\u2019t play ball. Our hero reluctantly agrees. He tries to cover up the corpse, but is forbidden to by Wolverine (And another bellow from Wendigo), saying he needs to the body out in the open to get a confession. I\u2019m not sure that tracks, but I\u2019m not in charge. Wolvie tells Spider-Man Wendigo doesn\u2019t eat human flesh even tho that\u2019s literally how he became The Wendigo, and to sit tight. Spidey asks for one reason he should go along with this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I distinctly recall my cousin Brandon reading this page to me. My family was visiting his, and I didn\u2019t have this issue yet, and he thought the \u201cI\u2019m a moody little cuss\u201d line was so funny I had to see it\/hear it. Funny, the things you remember. Wolverine has largely been saying the same thing over and over in all his scenes for like an issue and a half, and it still makes no sense that Spider-Man doesn\u2019t want him to go find the real killer when they have no other options. But Spider-Man shoots at web at Logan\u2019s back to keep him from leaving for some totally inexplicable reason, and Wendigo cuts the line, and that\u2019s that. Switching to his trademark civilian clothes, Logan heads into town and IDs the villain, tho we don\u2019t see him yet. Again, there is one suspect to choose from. I guess maybe two, I guess he\u2019s hoping you see two, but I didn\u2019t, even as a kid, and don\u2019t now. We cut to Anna Brooks, whose hair has completely changed and grown out like a foot since last issue. She\u2019s trying to write her column, but Peter\u2019s sown doubt in her mind. Then, a cameo from some guys you\u2019d think would\u2019ve shown up by now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canada has one whole superhero team, Alpha Flight, and they\u2019re old friends of Logan\u2019s. Why wouldn\u2019t he let them help? He went looking for help from Spider-Man. He doesn\u2019t even really know Spider-Man. Anyway, Wolvie\u2019s narration tells us he got the cops to come their way by saying Thorpe has Wendigo pinpointed (How?) and he then goes and abducts Thorpe out of the woods. I guess he\u2019s been out there for a day now? I dunno. He says with Thorpe in hand, he can end this clean. He returns to Spider-Man and Wendigo, always shown with an arm off-screen, and tells Spider-Man to go stall the cops. Uh, ok. Spidey says if Wolvie can really end this, he must, and takes off. While Spider-Man webs various cops from the trees, avoiding being seen, Logan leads Inspector Krahn to the new body, where he has Thorpe tied up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speaking of Twin Peaks (Uh, a few months ago), I think Todd is inspired by a famous sequence from that for these pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man spends a page webbing up more cops, a guest star in his own book, lamenting how hiding his identity has hindered his ability to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean, the only one acting guilty was Krahn. He leaked the info to the press, he stalled the autopsy, he didn\u2019t want people to see Peter\u2019s allegations that a human killed the boys, and he called in Thorpe to get The Wendigo, so Thorpe never felt like a suspect to me, especially after he voiced concerns about a human killer, too. Who else could it have been, Anna? There\u2019s not enough characters in this story for it to have a shocking twist. 24 hours later, Wolverine, still the main character of this story, narrates how Thorpe and the tape got the truth out. Krahn was shot by one of the hunters he worked into a frenzy. Anna Brooks\u2019 factual account of what happened got buried on page 20 of her paper, the media, we\u2019re told, having lost interest immediately when the bigfoot angle disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What in the world is Peter talking about!? Wolverine\u2019s plan was the only available solution, and he didn\u2019t even kill anybody! Nonsense! Ugh. What a mess, indeed, Logan. In the letter column, a frequent refrain from Todd comes to a head:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anytime he prints a negative letter, he says something outrageous like \u201cJust forget about all other Spider-Man comics and also your own tastes and interests and maybe you\u2019ll like it.\u201d In every letter this month, Salicrup\u2019s comments have stopped being playful jabs and become direct contradictions to everything Todd says. Another reader questions Spider-Man\u2019s brutality when dealing with crooks, and Todd says Spider-Man only hurts people who deserves it, with Salicrup chiming in to say he agrees with the reader. Then there\u2019s this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Every month in these columns, Todd is all-too happy to really dig into why all the comics I\u2019ve ever read by him, even ones he didn\u2019t draw, are meandering, nonsensical wastes of time: He doesn\u2019t much care about the writing. And sadly, despite my feeling on the topic, due to childhood fanboy-ism, I have read a ton of Spawn comics written by Todd. Speaking of Spawn, while Salicrup is right in every case, it\u2019s no surprise Todd\u2019s about to quit this book and mainstream comics in general. You can see him chafing under even what little oversight he has on this title. I mean, you got his \u201ceditor\u201d saying he doesn\u2019t agree with his story choices or personal philosophy when discussing already published comics, it doesn\u2019t seem like Todd\u2019s being told what to do, really. But \u201cno one\u2019s getting it,\u201d so it\u2019s time to go where no one can tell him anything. Ah, well. Get ready for the absolute polar opposite approach to making comics in the next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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