{"id":16861,"date":"2023-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=16861"},"modified":"2022-01-09T19:32:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T23:32:01","slug":"web-023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/04\/25\/web-023\/","title":{"rendered":"WEB 023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Slyde! No one asked for this. Well, probably not no one. I didn\u2019t, anyway. A Michelinie plot, a Len Kaminsky script, Jim Fern pencils, Vince Colletta inks, Bob Sharen colors. I don\u2019t think Michelinie would\u2019ve been pulled off this title to start doing ASM yet, but I don\u2019t know, either. Maybe. There\u2019s 6 months of content in ASM after DeFalco & Frenz get fired before Michelinie steps in. I dunno. To  my immense frustration, this issue picks up with Joy & Peter flying home from the UK. This is like DeMatteis in the 80s, man, just totally off in its own world. Don\u2019t worry, its placement here will make sense eventually. This must be the second issue I\u2019ve looked at published after Christopher Priest was fired as Spider-Man group editor and replaced by Jim Salicrup, according to the credits, and I didn\u2019t notice in Web 22. Oh, no, that was one of the ones with no credits at all, of course. More on that situation later. Peter is telling Joy JJJ is gonna flip over his photos and asking if she thinks he\u2019s getting the hang of this, and she simply says \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The honeymoon is over!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These are some very Vince Colletta images of Joy. And we\u2019re finally resolving this. All those times Joy seemed to think Peter was Spider-Man, she was just mad at his professional laziness. Which, you know, fair! He has, indeed, talked about his deal with Spidey to get out of a jam in the past (Despite more often claiming they don\u2019t know each other, which is awkward).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that\u2019s a wrap on that. I guess they\u2019ve had time to pave over their differences by the time I came on the scene in a few years, since I didn\u2019t ever get the feeling Joy disliked Peter. We\u2019re told the next scene is later that day, but Joy has completely changed clothes. I dunno. They\u2019re at The Bugle, and JJJ is furious that they spent so much money overseas and went to Belfast. But, rather confusingly, he is just then brought the prints of Peter\u2019s film, and tho\u2019 no one explains to him what\u2019s going on in the pictures, he completely changes his mind and talks about what a great job they did. Seems like this coulda used different dialogue. I wonder what Michelinie woulda done. Boss satisfied, Peter & Joy go their separate ways. Peter wonders if Joy\u2019s right, and he\u2019s not cut out to be an international news photographer. Probably because this book is losing its mandate to make him that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What if Peter\u2019s Spider Sense was set off by the price of a tuna sandwich? That guy, whoever he is, calls security, who Slyde easily, well, slides past and eludes. The guards call for backup, and Peter\u2019s elevator passes Slyde\u2019s going in the opposite direction, which is what set off the danger sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, in a kind of baffling choice, Spider-Man\u2019s swinging through Manhattan and finally opens the Bugle he grabbed at work, seeing Silver Sable\u2019s ad. So he goes off to be in ASM 280 & 281. And the rest of this issue takes place after them! Good grief. Well, whatever. That\u2019s why I moved this issue to where it is in the chronology. We jump to days later, with Peter getting frustrated trying to make webshooters that could get through airport security, and wondering why he\u2019s bothering, since he\u2019s gonna quit being Spider-Man aaaaaaany day now, for sure. He realizes he has no food in the house, and thus shows up unannounced at Aunt May\u2019s with 2 bucket of chicken. The obscured labels say \u201cCOLDA- SANW-\u201d which\u2026 is very confusing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The house is looking pretty empty, what with the boarders moving out. And yet, most of them are back by the time I started reading. Curious. Elsewhere, Slyde recaps his less-than-thrilling origin for us while trying to crack the no doubt deeply secure password on the floppy disk he stole. Which he stole from \u201cthe top financial reporter on the East Coast\u201d to get info about a shell company that the guy he ripped off last time we saw him in (ASM 272<\/a>) runs, which he hopes to now rip off in order to finance starting his own company. Ok! Next day, Peter gets ready at Aunt May\u2019s, she invites him to Atlantic City this weekend with her senior citizens group, and he heads back into the city to buy chocolate for Mary Jane. He better hurry if he wants this issue to have a fight scene, because Slyde commits a daring 2-page raid on his target and is off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I would very much like to stop seeing references to that man in my comics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Backup arrives in the form of Spider-Man. He tries to grab Slyde, having forgotten that being ungrab-able is kind of his deal, and then also fails to web him for good measure as he slydes off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These are some conspicuously empty backgrounds, Vince\u2026 Slyde survives his fall somewhat miraculously and is scootin\u2019 for the exit when Spidey realizes that, while he can\u2019t web Slyde, he can web the briefcase, and does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You have got to be kidding me! SEVEN consecutive issues of Web bleeding into each other!? Good grief, man, come on! Well\u2026 I guess I\u2019m reading #24 next\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Slyde! No one asked for this. Well, probably not no one. I didn\u2019t, anyway. A Michelinie plot, a Len Kaminsky script, Jim Fern pencils, Vince Colletta inks, Bob Sharen colors. I don\u2019t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[35,253,259,392,403,1070,448,2,382,265],"class_list":["post-16861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-aunt-may","tag-bob-sharen","tag-david-michelinie","tag-jim-fern","tag-joy-mercado","tag-len-kaminski","tag-slyde","tag-spider-man","tag-vince-colletta","tag-web-of-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861","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=16861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16862,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861\/revisions\/16862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}