{"id":17445,"date":"2023-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=17445"},"modified":"2022-02-03T23:27:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T03:27:37","slug":"web-025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/06\/16\/web-025\/","title":{"rendered":"WEB 025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We continue to dance around ASM. This does not look like a winner. It looks like it could be the same alien design as WEB 34, but I don\u2019t think they\u2019re related. It\u2019s another Larry Leiber joint for WEB, inked by Vince Colletta and colored by Julianna Ferriter, and, uh\u2026 it really gets going\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean, what? Is this a Silver Age DC book all of a sudden? That random weirdo thinks about how he\u2019ll show those construction workers one day, we cut to Aunt May and Peter at dinner for a single panel, and then we meet some schlubby police detective who\u2019s way into space getting a call from the observatory to go look for the object they somehow brought to Earth. Then it\u2019s back to the other guy, who leaves the cosmic super weapon where he found it because it doesn\u2019t seem to do anything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This issue is insane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The goon has inadvertently led Spider-Man to the space weapon, which sets off his Spider Sense and inspires him to pick it up. The cop guy has also gotten a lead from the goon\u2019s friend and shows up just in time to see Spider-Man swing off. The cop tries to follow by car, but is run off the road by a drunk driver, WHAT IS THIS COMIC?? Then Spider-Man arrives home with May\u2019s brooch and the super weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s a vision of the future, I guess courtesy of that one guy from earlier, which Peter learns will come to pass if the green guys get his new toy. Then he\u2019s back in his place. Peter inexplicably decides to take this thing to the cops instead of Reed Richards or, like, anyone reasonable, but they make fun of him for trying to explain it, and the space-obsessed one isn\u2019t there. Meanwhile, the original goon who had the thing comes face-to-face with the lead green guy (Look, I\u2019m not internalizing anything in this), who, when told Spider-Man has his prize, begins searching for it \u201ctelectorpatically,\u201d which seems to mean \u201cby making his eyes glow.\u201d This causes the thingie to glow on Spider-Man\u2019s back as he swings away from the police station, having been told that cop he ignored earlier would be interested in his space weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s the mugger who begins attacking Spider-Man with various superpowers. Spidey IMMEDIATELY figures out he\u2019s possessed by an alien for no reason, so he just tries to flee so he won\u2019t hurt the guy. This is crazy, man. The alien gives up on \u201chuman guise\u201d as we also see the space cop guy is back in town, has spotted Spider-Man, and begins to follow him again. The cop and the alien (In energy form) both follow Spidey to the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey surfaces and tries to mix it up with the green guy, but ends up in the same bear hug as on the cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that was frankly terrible. Larry\u2019s last fill-in was a lot of fun, but this was just silly. Speaking of which, look at some of these letters\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man, what is going on this month? I mean, I knew this issue would be far from essential based on the cover, but wow. At least next issue\u2019s cover isn\u2019t a problem\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We continue to dance around ASM. This does not look like a winner. It looks like it could be the same alien design as WEB 34, but I don\u2019t think they\u2019re related….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[366,726,2,382,265],"class_list":["post-17445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-julianna-ferriter","tag-larry-leiber","tag-spider-man","tag-vince-colletta","tag-web-of-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445","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=17445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17446,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445\/revisions\/17446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}