{"id":16130,"date":"2023-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=16130"},"modified":"2021-11-25T23:59:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T03:59:37","slug":"sm-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/02\/17\/sm-24\/","title":{"rendered":"SM 24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So! You give your biggest star his own comic book. And then he quits. So you give another of your biggest stars that book. And he quits. What now? Random, random-seeming fill-ins. And Bagley covers for a bit, because he\u2019s fast. What\u2019s funny to me about this is, Spider-Man cost more than the other books due to its higher paper quality. People paid it because Todd McFarlane, obviously. But now it\u2019s just whoever was available this month, and yet it still costs more. You\u2019re not really getting your money\u2019s worth anymore, if ever you were. Spidey eyes are gettin\u2019 weird, there, Bags. So, this is a tie-in to Infinity War, the sequel to Infinity Gauntlet. \u201cWait, wasn\u2019t Infinity Gauntlet just a few months ago?\u201d Nothing creates bloat like success. I didn\u2019t really read this crossover, all I know is The Magus, Adam Warlock\u2019s literal evil twin, created evil twins of all the Marvel characters. Very convenient for tie-ins. Inside, we got \u201cH. Austin Mackie\u201d writing (?), Larry Alexander penciling, Andrew Pepoy inking and Gregory Wright hanging in there on colors. I know Alexander from drawing an ongoing Red Skull backup story in Captain America around this time. This, tho\u2026 woof. Not exactly living up to this title\u2019s pedigree. Peter Parker\u2019s having a nightmare. He and MJ are sleeping above the covers, presumably because Larry doesn\u2019t know how to draw them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter decides to head out, thinking he sometimes feels like a character on MJ\u2019s soap opera. Then we see Spider-Man for the first time, looking like the Macy\u2019s Day Thanksgiving Parade Spider-Man float.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s like if Alex Saviuk was drawing the float. Our man stops a mugging before the victim even knows he\u2019s being mugged, thinking he has fun at this, as a mysterious, 6-armed figure watches him. Who could that be? Couldn\u2019t be the thing on the cover, right? Meanwhile, Jason Philip Macendale, former Jack O\u2019 Lantern, current Hobgoblin, also has nightmares, about his deal with the devil. He seems himself being clawed by demons, one of which just straight up looks like Morbius. He wakes up and does some exercising. It\u2019s weird, I remember this book, and more so as I read it, but I somehow forgot about all this. I thought Macendale had juuuust been freed from the demon way back in Spider-Man 46, I forgot all this other stuff. Anyway, ol\u2019 Jason decides to go hunt down his demonic double, who is already hunting him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cannot stop thinking about that balloon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So this is the official debut of Demo\u2019s new outfit. It didn\u2019t click before, even looking at the cover. Spidey decides to get involved, but his web is snapped, but a 2nd, razor-wire webline, and he goes crashing into Hobgoblin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There it is, looking essentially like the latest symbiote to hit the scene, but it\u2019s not, it\u2019s our special Infinity War guest star. It tries to bite out Spidey\u2019s throat, but he forces its mouth shut. Hobby gets on his glide and flies off, wishing Spider-Man luck. Then his own evil twin comes after him again. And Hobgoblin, who went out tonight looking for Demo, says he\u2019s not getting paid, so he\u2019s not fighting. Uh\u2026 ok. Spider-Man sees this is only going to endanger a lot of people, and tries to move the fight out of Times Square by swinging over and kicking Demo, allowing Hobby to escape, but then webbing onto Hobby\u2019s glider so both evil twins will follow them. Hobgoblin tries to shoot Spider-Man, but eventually, thanks to the spider-thing\u2019s razor webbing, everyone wind up crashing into an alley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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13-year old me LOVED that teflon joke, I can remember that. Hobby produces some kinda fancy gun from AIM whose effect he doesn\u2019t even know and begins blasting his double to see. Spider-Man starts brawling with his double, remarking that at least Hobgoblin knows where his came from, and how he\u2019s in the dark here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unlike, I believe, every single evil twin from this event except The Magus, who\u2019d been around since the 70s, that dumb Spider-monster is going to become a fixture around here. As improbable as that sounds. What a weird issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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