{"id":21504,"date":"2024-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=21504"},"modified":"2022-09-09T19:48:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T23:48:46","slug":"chapter-one-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/06\/03\/chapter-one-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter One 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To kick things off, Byrne spelled out that he and editorial got together and decided ASM 1-18 represented the first year of Spider-Man\u2019s career, and to focus in on that range. Adapting 18 and a half comics into 12 would seem like a tall order, but by skipping issues 4, 7 and 8, maybe it\u2019s not so hard. Yes, that\u2019s what\u2019s happening. Spidey\u2019s rematch with the Vulture? Never happened. The whole Living Brain incident? Nope! We jump right into Electro\u2019s first appearance in ASM 9<\/a>, skipping Peter beginning to date Betty, who he seemingly hasn\u2019t even met yet, and skipping Peter\u2019s big boxing match with Flash. Will Byrne even bother with either plot point? Who can guess? We open on JJJ at his bank in the middle of the night, having blustered his way in to demand to know if his own finances were impacted by the armored car robbery yesterday. Does\u2026 Does JJJ not know how money works?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, anyone would assume a door opening by itself was the work of someone with superpowers, come on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why change the color scheme? Just a F- redesign. Electro escapes by climbing a wall, for some reason, which leads to tomorrow\u2019s Bugle headline being \u201cElectro Is Spider-Man.\u201d Peter is very offended. Aunt May actually gets 2 lines of dialogue! But only 2, as Peter goes for a walk so he can flashback to how he resolved the Lizard adventure. Which you could be forgiven for forgetting didn\u2019t end, this far into this issue without mentioning it. This format sucks so bad. Back in FL, Martha explains her husband turned himself into a lizard man, and Spider-Man whips up an antidote, as he should. Spidey runs back into the swamp, a MUCH shorter version of their fight occurs, he gets the antidote in Liz\u2019s mouth, it works. Chapter One\u2019s rushed and disjointed format means Byrne is both skipping anything to do with the supporting cast AND truncating all those great DItko fight scenes. So you\u2019re excising almost everything in Peter\u2019s life to make room for more Spider-Man adventure, but then you\u2019re not giving the Spider-Man adventure any room to be fun. So\u2026 what\u2019s left? The teen angst and real world problems that made this character revolutionary are gone, the fabulous fight scenes are gone\u2026 this is just illustrated Cliff\u2019s Notes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Things get absolutely bonkers next page. Peter tells JJJ there\u2019s no Lizard and whatnot in flashback, then returns to the present so we can switch our scene to\u2026 Johnny Storm\u2019s house. Byrne has ripped out everything that made the original comics special to make room to adapt Strange Tales Annual 2<\/a>. I am flabbergasted. Johnny is jealous of all the attention Spider-Man\u2019s getting and flies off to confront him. Meanwhile, Electro is confronting someone who proceeds to tell Electro his own origin. Why does his origin rate being in the actual comic? And that someone is\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vulture worked with Tinkerer. Chameleon worked with Doom. Now Electro works for Osborn. Sheesh. Seems very unlike Norman, then or now, to let Electro know anything about him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once again, Byrne reaches something pretty dopey from the old comics and leaves it in, Johnny making a bunch of \u201cflame doubles\u201d of himself. Of course, they\u2019re not going to team up to fight the Fox this time (So the rematch in SMU 5<\/a> didn\u2019t happen, sorry!), this time Spidey\u2019s been framed by Electro. Their fight goes more or less as before. Spidey escapes and makes up a batch of anti-Torch webbing and then hears on the radio that Electro is releasing inmates from a jail, as in ASM 9, and goes to fight him. Torch shows up, of course, and they begin the bullet point version of their 2nd fight from ST Annual 2, complete with the panel that recreated the cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey leaves the Torch in his web to go break up the prison break, the rest of ST Annual 2 now no longer canon (Briefly). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Halfway through this trainwreck. I am having an even worse time than I anticipated. Next issue\u2026 we jump from ASM 9\/ST Annual 2 right into ASM 13!!! I cannot believe this. Just gutting these classic stories. So now we\u2019ll first meet the Enforcers in his remake of ASM 14 and also skip his rematch with Doc Ock, featuring the extremely famous unmasking of Peter. Crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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