{"id":20312,"date":"2024-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=20312"},"modified":"2022-07-23T20:49:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T00:49:40","slug":"web-of-doom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/03\/06\/web-of-doom-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Web of Doom 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You know the crazy thing about this series? I have this vague memory of it feeling kind of exciting at the time. Not the series itself, per se, but the fact that all this additional Spider-Man product was coming out. I\u2019ve talked elsewhere about the undeniable excitement of the early clone period, how crazy and dangerous it seemed. Love it or hate it, the new direction felt radical. This was wrapped up in that, even tho it all takes place before the clone crap got started. Well, hey, Anthony Williams is suddenly the penciler on this issue. Does each one have a different artist? That would be weird. We start with MJ in the jungle, mad at herself for taking this job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We check in on Spider-Man, approaching the police precinct, dismayed to see it under armed guard. He\u2019s decided to go see if they have any of his killer webbing. This guy is really running in circles. He leaps onto their roof as we cut to MJ rescuing her man in the movie. Inside the precinct, some generic cop caricature calls in\u2026 The Extreme Emergency Team. What? First off all, that\u2019s dopey, and second of all, why not Code: Blue? They\u2019re right there, waiting to be in this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Literally just use Code: Blue! Not that they\u2019re cool, either, but this is exactly what they\u2019re supposed to be! I can\u2019t believe they bothered to name these jobbers. Well, Spider-Man gets spotted on the roof and has to run for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThey train 6 whole months to get to shoot people, I\u2019ve only been doing this for \u20185 years!\u2019\u201d Spider-Man jumps around the city being yelled at by regular people at their windows and feeling worse. Man this comic is spinning its wheels. A \u201cman on the street\u201d piece is filmed below with everyone hating him, and then he finds it very difficult to travel around the city because cops are everywhere looking for him. We are 15 pages into this comic and nothing has happened. We\u2019re 47 pages into this series and 1 thing has happened! Yeeeeeesh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yeah, that\u2019s the big piece of evidence, not the GUARD IN A COMA YOU DIDN\u2019T HURT. Ay yi yi, this comic is killing me. Super Extra Cop Force is coordinating their Spider-Man response in their \u201ccommand center,\u201d doing absolutely nothing like the rest of this story. Then when Spider-Man returns to the scene of the crime, like 40 zillion cops are there, and he blunders in, anyway. Somehow, nothing continues to happen. Spider-Man just stands there, rehashing what he knows about the case and thinking he can\u2019t let them take him in (Duh). Then finally, on page 20, he sees a cop seeing him and tries to flee. The cop says he\u2019s got special rounds just for Spider-Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tracking mist. Whatever. Spider-Man stops in his flight to save a bag lady about to be hit by a speeding car, and that allows the Extremely Lame Force to drop a giant net on him. Wow. Were they driving the car, too? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man I don\u2019t care. Even filler can be endearing if it\u2019s fun. This series is so obviously a cash grab. I cannot imagine why I bought it as a teen. Did the \u201cSpider-Man: Killer!\u201d angle actually work on me? I know I was the kind of idiot comic collector who woulda bought the remaining 2 issues even if I didn\u2019t like the first one. Who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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