{"id":21058,"date":"2024-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=21058"},"modified":"2024-04-30T10:15:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:15:19","slug":"tac-259","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/04\/23\/tac-259\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 259"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now here\u2019s a thing that piqued my interest enough to buy Spectacular as a teen: The promise of a showdown between the original Green Goblin and the original Hobgoblin? A Romita, Sr. cover? Roger Stern\u2019s name on the cover? Alas, it\u2019s not as exciting as it appears. But we\u2019ll get there. For one thing, Stern is only credited with co-plotting, despite him getting top billing in the blurb last issue. His co-plotter and scripter is Glenn Greenberg, who took over last issue. The art team remains the same. We open on Spidey swinging by Norman Osborn on a giant TV, appearing on the \u201cReggie & Katie Mae\u201d show. \u201cAs if those two buffoons weren\u2019t hard enough to stomach on their OWN!\u201d Harsh words, Glenn. But probably warranted. I dunno, I never watched that show. Norman\u2019s hocking his new autobiography, which is, of course, full of lies. It is, itself, called \u201cSurvivor of the Big Lie,\u201d which is good marketing. Spidey\u2019s so mad he starts yelling their history at the TV, in case you didn\u2019t know it, until some people on the street start yelling at him that he sucks and they love Osborn. But he\u2019s not the only one watching\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wonder how many people are yelling their history with Norman Osborn at TVs today. It\u2019s epidemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As we have now (FINALLY) seen, Ben\u2019s book actually wound up being called Dynasty of Evil, but that was a weird last minute swerve, so that\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the privacy of his office, JJJ ruminates on how Osborn loves humiliating him. How he\u2019s been threatening Marla\u2019s life every time he makes Jonah do something, how he\u2019s ruined Ben\u2019s reputation, how he and Peter have \u201csome kind of cold war going on,\u201d how he drove Robbie away (He sure doesn\u2019t seem to know about Robbie\u2019s mission in this book). And then he opens a drawer in his desk, thinking he can do something about it, and we see he\u2019s got a gun. Meanwhile, in prison, Kingsley tells his attorney that he has proof that Osborn was the Goblin, a journal that survived the fires (incorrectly footnoted as happening in ASM 251<\/a> instead of 261<\/a>). He says he\u2019s willing to talk to a district attorney about it, he\u2019s so mad at Osborn. His lawyer tells him to keep quiet, that Osborn has eyes everywhere, but he\u2019ll make some calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whoops! Meanwhile, at The Daily Grind, Peter is griping to MJ about how awful it is that Norman\u2019s getting away with all this, and she tells him he\u2019ll come out on top in the end, but then Jill shows up, so they have to table it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Weird coloring mistake on MJ\u2019s face there) Instant pals! The next morning, Roderick\u2019s lawyer says the DA is interested, and they\u2019ve set up a meet tonight at midnight. Something Roderick\u2019s guard immediately calls someone else to inform them of. And so, as Peter & MJ are finishing up dinner that evening, Betty Brant shows up at the house, tipped off about the meeting, and a few hours later, Peter & Betty are on a ridge outside the prison, waiting. A footnote tells us Betty met that guard in Hobgoblin Lives. Well, sure, why not? They see Kingsley being loaded out of the prison into a van, but then Peter\u2019s danger sense goes off. He tells Betts he trying to get close for better shots and disappears on her, and then, naturally, bombs start raining on the van.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey starts to fight the Goblin and Kingsley quickly finds himself dangling from the glider, his bonds hooked around its neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And thus, as I recall, we are robbed of an actual battle between the two goblins for the duration of this story. I don\u2019t actually remember, tho, so we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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