{"id":25037,"date":"2025-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=25037"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:40:23","slug":"tangled-web-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/02\/08\/tangled-web-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangled Web 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Darwyn Cooke and J. Bone take the reins this month. An interesting pairing. Cooke successfully broke into comics in the 90s at DC before quickly deciding it wasn\u2019t a way to make a living and getting right back out (Smart. Sadly). In the 90s, he got work storyboarding on the DC cartoons, Batman and Superman and such. It\u2019s a curious thing, those shows. As they all used a version of Bruce Timm\u2019s cartooning style, they produced a lot of artists whose art\u2026 kinda just looks a lot like Bruce Timm\u2019s. But unlike, say, the entire comics industry copying Jim Lee in the 90s, it\u2019s because they spent untold hours working in that style. It was bound to rub off. Cooke is one of these, but he is maybe the most distinguished, having done all sorts of well-received stuff as writer\/artist before his untimely death. His DC: The New Frontier series is really something. And J. Bone was an up-and-coming cartoonist in his own right at this time. And jut to maintain the class, Matt Hollingsworth colors this month. All this for only $3.50? What a deal! Anyway, looks like we got romance and the Vulture this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s weird to see Cooke doing the classic Gill Kane \u201cperson getting hit very hard\u201d in panel 3 there. So yeah, it\u2019s looser and more cartoony, but it\u2019s rather Batman-The-Animated-Series-looking. As Spidey is taking a beating, that Edwards guy can\u2019t figure out how to work the camera, and JJJ is very upset. Things continue in very old school fashion, with Spidey lunging for Vultch, missing, webbing his ankle and being whisked through the sky. The usual\u2026 until Vulture reveals he was expecting this, since it happens so often, and slings Spider-Man into a smokestack he\u2019s rigged with explosives before setting them off, sending out hero plummeting to Earth in a hail of masonry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Get Sal Buscema to draw this and we\u2019d be right back in the 70s, but the retro feel is kind of Cooke\u2019s thing. Over the next few pages, we\u2019re introduced to 3 all-new Bugle employees, women reporters referred to \u201cJill\u201d and \u201cMiss Kay\u201d by copy boy \u201cSpence.\u201d Both the ladies have dates tonight, and Spence heads out to get them some coffee before they knock off work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mostly just ran that last page because the middle 3 panels are great. Jill busts into the bathroom, making Kay get lipstick on her face and also angry, she storms out past JJJ angrily answering the phone only to find it\u2019s Marla and get in trouble, there\u2019s a lot of shenanigans going on at the Bugle tonight. Then Jill emerges from the bathroom all sexed up, announcing her date tonight is none other than America\u2019s favorite everyman, Peter Parker. Who is still lying unconscious in that alley, we keep checking on him for a panel, including another as Kay walks past him to the Coffee Bean, where she fends off an advance from Flash Thompson while waiting for her date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ol\u2019 Everyman Peter Parker!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cooke\u2019s JJJ is a lot of fun. Wow, this takes place in the present, I\u2019m rather shocked. Just sort of assumed it would be set in olden times. In fact, I was wondering why Cooke bothered to do a Betty & Veronica riff with brand-new women instead of MJ & Gwen, but I guess it\u2019s because Gwen\u2019s dead and MJ is in California, huh. Spider-Man finally wakes up, trying to remember how he got there, and thinking he\u2019s forgetting he was supposed to be somewhere before passing out again, revealing \u201c8:00\u201d in a heart written on his wrist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFirst row floors?\u201d Did they mean seats?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Funny how that more retro panel is more in line with Cooke\u2019s usual work. Well, as the ladies argue over Peter, Flash points out to them that they\u2019ve been stood up. And back at the Bugle, Marla has had some of the laxative coffee and can\u2019t come out of the bathroom. JJJ is sad to lose his $500, but seems kind of amused. He smells his coffee and then calls in Spence to ask how it happened. Spence mentions the \u201cAngus Special,\u201d and JJJ says he never liked that guy. Meanwhile, the girls have decided to go to Peter\u2019s place and give him what for, but they don\u2019t know where he lives, so Flash offers to drive them. And Spence finds a note from whoever the blue haired girl was and rushes back to take her out for Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That lady almost looks like Aunt Anna. Wouldn\u2019t that be wacky. Well, there you go. A pretty rollicking story. I believe these guys are back with another one before the end of this series. I will look forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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