{"id":17858,"date":"2023-07-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=17858"},"modified":"2022-03-02T21:37:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T01:37:39","slug":"web-097","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/07\/31\/web-097\/","title":{"rendered":"WEB 097"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

12th post this block before hitting a regular monthly Spider-Man title. What a horrible cover! They didn\u2019t waste much time bringing \u201cBlood Rose\u201d back. And now we\u2019re all caught up on Rose history for it. However, it\u2019s not Mackie, strangely, who\u2019s doing so, but Terry Kavanagh. For some reason, a Derek Yaniger draws & inks the first 6 pages and cover before Alex Saviuk and Joe Rubenstein take over for the rest of the book. Good ol\u2019 Bob Sharen colors throughout. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a 2-page splash, Blood Rose is suddenly shooting down off the roof at guys in a nearby warehouse, saying there\u2019s enough ammo to go around. There is much shooting and running around and one grenade going off as BR thinks that you have to know your enemy, and no one knows these goons more than he does. They eventually think they have him and say he killed their boss, Richard Fisk, but then that grenade goes off, and that\u2019s a wrap. BR thinks \u201cFather taught me all-too well\u2026\u201d and then we shift to Forest Hills, where Aunt May, MJ and The Parkers are waiting on Peter to arrive for dinner. I believe this marks the parents\u2019 first appearance outside ASM. When Peter does arrive, he\u2019s got Betty Brant with him, no longer dressed like a 90s ninja like she was last time we saw her, in WEB 92<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are they trying to gin up some kind of romantic triangle with Betty? That would be insane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sure looks like Richard Fisk in that Blood Rose outfit. A bit crazy how Web has become the \u201cpick up where 1987 left off\u201d title, with The Rose, Foreigner, Hobgoblin, etc. Meanwhile, \u201chalfway around the world,\u201d a ship crashes onto some rocks in a storm, spilling Richard Fisk, looking more like he did in WEB 89<\/a>, onto a beach with some goons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok, hold on are they trying to say Fisk is still shot from Web 89 here, in Web 97?? WITH all the other stuff that\u2019s happened in the other Spider-Titles since then??? Impossible. Sillier than him having divers in place in case he fell out a window. Well, whatever, back in New York, Robbie is being weirdly aggressive telling Peter he can\u2019t be hogging be dark room all night at The Bugle when they\u2019re distracted by an explosion at Fisk Tower. Robbie tries to call in his \u201cmobile news team,\u201d they says he\u2019ll just go cover it with Peter, but Peter\u2019s already gone, swinging to the scene as Spider-Man. He makes a web net in case people come flying out the windows, and then one does in a hail of bullets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It just hit me who Trench is. I know that was awhile back. That\u2019s\u2026 weird. Spidey chases Br down a hall to an elevator shaft, where he\u2019s got a guy by the collar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A heavily armed tough guy waging a one-mane war on crime? Man, what an original concept we have here! I do like Spider-Man\u2019s bit there, tho. Spidey and Bloody mix it up for just a bit, but then Blood Rose detonates explosives on 3 more floors of the building, and Spider-Man becomes more interested in trying to save people than fighting him. Insanely, completely insanely, down on the street, Robbie has arrived, and seeing the whole building going up in flames, steals a camera off a kid and runs in before the cops can stop him, grumbling internally about how he\u2019;; \u201ctake it out of Peter Parker\u2019s hide\u201d later. What\u2026 on Earth\u2026 is this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Foreigner has really sunk a lot of money into having a variety of lame goons on payroll. Joe Robertson has lost his mind. Who knows what happens next? As a kid, I was lured in by the alleged importance of Web 100, but I skipped this whole story before it. This issue has a dubious distinction. I\u2019ve never read it before now, and when I came to fill in the holes in my collection, I found a strange number of people trying to jack the price up on it. What could this random issue of Web be such a big deal for? It\u2019s the technical first appearance of Nightwatch. That\u2019s who \u201cTrench\u201d is. We\u2019ve seen him briefly before in SMU 16. Todd McFarlane left Marvel to create Spawn, a character who is visibly a cross between Prowler and Spider-Man. Pretty blatantly, really. And now, a year later, Marvel introduces Nightwatch, a knock-off of Spawn. The snake eats its tail. The thing is, tho, a few years ago, rumor began to circulate that Sony was developing a Nightwatch movie to be directed by Spike Lee. Did that ever happen? No. Did the speculation cause the price of Nightwatch\u2019s first appearance to jump up? You bet, comics are stupid like that. And now there\u2019s no Nightwatch movie, and people are still trying to get $150 for this comic book no one actually wants. This is one of 2 90s comics with pointlessly inflated price tags that I could not bring myself to pay for. In both cases, persistence paid off. In this case, even as people were hocking this thing for between $50-$200 on ebay, I found some poor soul selling it for $0.99. And I was the only one who bid on it. Sometimes my luck in the eBay days was insane. And rarely was I more thankful than when buying something I knew wasn\u2019t even going to be very good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

12th post this block before hitting a regular monthly Spider-Man title. What a horrible cover! They didn\u2019t waste much time bringing \u201cBlood Rose\u201d back. And now we\u2019re all caught up on Rose…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[268,35,11,253,1603,1074,26,278,21,1290,952,1289,2,423,325,265],"class_list":["post-17858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-alex-saviuk","tag-aunt-may","tag-betty-brant","tag-bob-sharen","tag-derek-yaniger","tag-foreigner","tag-joe-robertson","tag-joe-rubenstein","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-mary-parker","tag-nightwatch","tag-richard-parker","tag-spider-man","tag-terry-kavanagh","tag-the-rose","tag-web-of-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858","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=17858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17859,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858\/revisions\/17859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}