{"id":22230,"date":"2024-07-30T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=22230"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:43:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:43:22","slug":"webspinners-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/07\/30\/webspinners-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Webspinners 12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I did say all the Spider-books had made it to #12, and that includes Webspinners. A stunning $3.50 for this one! Hard to believe I paid it. And I don\u2019t\u2026 really know why. I would have told you the Romita, Sr. illustrated story from #1 was in this, and that\u2019s why I bought it. But it\u2019s not, so\u2026 I dunno. But it\u2019s perhaps fortuitous that I did, because the actual story here is by Paul Jenkins, who will become much more associated with the webslinger very soon here on the blog, so I\u2019m getting in on the ground floor. And penciler JG Jones is a rising star who will go on to some pretty big things from here, so that\u2019s cool. Let\u2019s see what they\u2019re up to, because I don\u2019t remember at all. Jimmy Palmiotti inks and Joe Rosas colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Clean lines and \u201crealism\u201d are soon to be the trend in comics art after the turn of the century. A strong reaction to the intense cartoony feel of the late 90s? Maybe. But for whatever reason, you can see why Jones would become a star if that\u2019s what the people want. Hey, what in the world is going on? A dejected Peter Parker arrives at home. It\u2019s just May, of course, MJ out as usual, and she isn\u2019t able to make him feel better about I guess killing some guy who was maybe the Chameleon? Peter goes upstairs to freshen up before dinner and passes out on the bed. In his dream, he\u2019s dressed as an unmasked Spider-Man, webbed to a wall of comic book pages. Really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I promise Jenkins\u2019 stuff isn\u2019t so morose when he gets a regular title around here. Jenkins is a British writer, but unlike most British writers, he started his career in America, working for indies and writing Hellblazer at DC before coming to Marvel in the mid-90s. His 12-issue Inhumans with Jae Lee was one of the Marvel Knights launch titles, and a hit. He was pretty much made for the trend in comics writing to come, the more naturalistic, character-focused style that Marvel is going to ride to great success. But that\u2019s for later. Right now, Peter relives the death of Captain Stacy from ASM 90, wracking himself with guilt, and then a montage of other deaths goes by, as Jones dutifully recreates panels from Harry\u2019s death in TAC 200, Kraven\u2019s death in TAC 131, Norman\u2019s death in ASM 122, MJ losing baby May in SM 75 (Don\u2019t see that one on the Peter Parker Guilt Parade often), and Ben Reilly\u2019s death from the same issue, as he thinks about how anyone who gets close to him dies. Not exactly new territory, here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The teeth over the original panels is a weird, creepy touch, but again, we\u2019ve done this dance so very many times. He hops backward in time a little to relive her actual death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And so we do the origin and Uncle Ben\u2019s death, all with Peter telling himself everything\u2019s his fault, yadda yadda. I am getting nothing out of this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter battles his early foes as panels form their early appearances fly by, pointing out how those were simpler, easier times, but the villain vanish as Peter realizes it\u2019s all too easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that\u2019s it. What on Earth was happening on the first few pages!? Good grief, what a mess. I wonder how this played to a younger me. Probably not much better. Just kinda felt like filler dressed up as a \u201cmore mature\u201d story. But, again, Jenkins\u2019 upcoming run in the Spider-Office is actually pretty good, as I recall, often great. I guess we\u2019ll see\u2026 Man, I blew right through an oversized issue because it didn\u2019t do anything but rehash a bunch of famous losses for the billionth time. $3.50!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did say all the Spider-books had made it to #12, and that includes Webspinners. A stunning $3.50 for this one! Hard to believe I paid it. And I don\u2019t\u2026 really know…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,1],"tags":[35,1912,485,525,1911,1879],"class_list":["post-22230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","category-uncategorized","tag-aunt-may","tag-jg-jones","tag-jimmy-palmiotti","tag-joe-rosas","tag-paul-jenkins","tag-webspinners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22230","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=22230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22245,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22230\/revisions\/22245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}