{"id":20274,"date":"2024-02-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=20274"},"modified":"2022-07-23T20:29:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T00:29:39","slug":"web-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/02\/29\/web-109\/","title":{"rendered":"WEB 109"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here\u2019s a weird one. The regular creative team is relegated to a back-up story, and the main feature is guests. Specifically, Joey Cavalieri scripting, Rurik Tyler penciling, Sam De La Rosa inking, with good ol\u2019 Bob Sharen coloring. The back-up story is a lead-in to the next 2 issues. Why\u2019s it structured like this? Very strange. We begin with the weird premise that The Shocker\u2019s powers are out of control, and he\u2019s running around leaving craters and crushing things and panicking. Can he not\u2026 take the gloves off? He worries he\u2019s leaving a trail of destruction that\u2019ll bring Spider-Man right to him, and 2 pages later, Spider-Man has spotted him smashing into an abandoned TV station. Except\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shocky\u2019s so out of control that our old pal Night Thrasher can\u2019t even stand up, everything\u2019s vibrating so badly. Then Shocker just leaves. Good talk. Thrash is worried because Shocker\u2019s just caused a total power failure. Then Spidey finally manages to get inside. How\u2019d it take him so long?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Come on, geniuses, he clearly thinks the McGuffin will help him control his situation. Thrash can inexplicably restore power to the security system but not the lights, and when they find Shocky in the dark, a zap from hi sets off the security system (??) and our heroes are too busy dodging lasers and missiles and stuff to worry about a supervillain. This plan of Night Thrasher\u2019s is going great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shocky finds his way to the McGuffin, the heroes are still being very obtuse about it, Spidey tries to web up the doorway to prevent Shocker from reaching his goal, the vibration makes that fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just\u2026 just take off the gloves, dumby!! How is this a story!? Shocky\u2019s convinced he\u2019s gonna vibrate himself to dust, and when asked why he didn\u2019t seek help, he asks who would help him? Spide-rMan, that\u2019s who, and now the 2 heroes just give Shocker the vest. Shocking! But it doesn\u2019t work, and Spider-Man decides it has to be tuned to the frequency of Shocker\u2019s blasts. Shouldn\u2019t Thrasher know how this thing works?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok, fine. That was so goofy. The rest of the book is by the usual gang. First there\u2019s a random 1-pager about Peter Parker setting up his new lab in the attic, with fantastical asides about turning it into a Batcave or a Danger Room. That\u2019s all there is to that. This house is killing me. It\u2019s huge. But they got so little out of it. We\u2019re running out of space before we get to \u201cI am the spider\u201d gloom\u2019n\u2019doom combo\u2019d into clone madness. There\u2019s no regular stories, Peter is barely ever in this place. I guess that\u2019s why they quickly and awkwardly got jammed in here in the background of Grant\u2019s TAC run. Just so they would technically live somewhere during the mess to come, and logic and finances be damned. Well anyway, the rest of the book concerns The Lizard and Calypso, as promised. At a bar near The Vault, Calypso bewitches an off-duty guard into sneaking her into the prison, so you know\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Calypso keeps on rampaging as the bottom 3rd of each page becomes the mind of Curt Connors\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that seems like bad news. 22 pages of savage terror, eh? We\u2019ll see. And speaking of seeing, we\u2019ve already seen how Calypso comes back from the dead, in Spider-Man Annual \u201897<\/a>, so that\u2019s another loop closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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