{"id":26075,"date":"2025-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=26075"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:39:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:39:33","slug":"negative-exposure-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/04\/08\/negative-exposure-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative Exposure 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Another reason the Vampire Doc Ock being in this book irritates me is Harris isn\u2019t drawing him on the covers. So you put him in the new look in a flashback story so as to be consistent with the new presentation or whatever, and then you put a totally different suit on the covers. 0\/10. This issue opens with Haight flashing back to \u201cabout a year ago,\u201d the first time he photographed Ock. He\u2019s still in the vampire suit, of course, tearing through a National Guard unit. Haight felt that Ock had made himself something other than human. In the present (That is, the past that we\u2019re focused on in this series), Ock is working Haight\u2019s ego, and taking jabs at \u201cwhoever gets the front page\u201d of the Bugle to stir up some spite in him. It\u2019s not hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Haight leaves, suitably manipulated, and that guy who brings Ock the books comes by so we can see Ock belittle Haight and his photos once he\u2019s gone. He seems to have taken note of the dedication to the cop lady in the book, and he says Haight is just the catalyst. Out in the world, Cop Lady Officer Kefkin is walking with Haight, and incredulous that he actually went to see Doc Ock. Haight, suitably manipulated, tells her Ock likes his work and he\u2019s not such a bad guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I feel like this story would work better if Haight wasn\u2019t, like, 1 step away from Nick Katzenberg. Remember that guy? And he seems like he\u2019s ready to take that step, even. Like if it was some cool dude Peter was accidentally and unknowingly screwing over all the time, we wouldn\u2019t know who to root for. This guy just sucks. Well, he gets down there, and the place really is crawling with zombies, and there\u2019s no zombies in the Marvel U (Well, not yet), so you can guess what that means in a Spider-Man comic\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Romita, Jr.\u2019s Peter Parker would be so jealous of Mysterio\u2019s bags. Also I\u2019m pretty sure Peter has turned in photos of Mysterio. If memory serves, they\u2019ve fought 5 times before this, wherever this is (The last of their fights before Gwen died was ASM 67<\/a> & 68<\/a>, and I\u2019m assuming this is pretty early in Peter\u2019s college career since he\u2019s still a teenager, so maybe just 4 times). Spider-Man shows up and they get to scrappin, and Haight gets to snappin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vaughan\u2019s Spider-Man calls people morons a lot. Doesn\u2019t feel right. He handily defeats Mysterio. All these fights that would\u2019ve gone on a whole issue or even 2 in the 60s being reduced to 4 pages kind of takes the danger out of Spider-Man\u2019s rogues gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, next we find Haight back at Riker\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, Ock knew Kefkin worked the lockup at One Police Plaza due to Haight\u2019s rather wordy dedication to her, but how does he knows his arms are there? Why are his arms there, for that matter, they\u2019re way too dangerous to be there. Vaughan\u2019s premise that Ock is a master manipulator doesn\u2019t really fly for me. He\u2019s a loner who hates other people too much to be a manipulator. Seems like he\u2019d think that was beneath him and a waste of time. He just kills anyone in his way, and he only works with goons he hired to do everything he says without question. You need people skills to manipulate people. Nobody who routinely calls people \u201cdolts\u201d is really on that track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another reason the Vampire Doc Ock being in this book irritates me is Harris isn\u2019t drawing him on the covers. So you put him in the new look in a flashback story…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864,1],"tags":[2033,2096,2026,25,234,2095,2,1986],"class_list":["post-26075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-uncategorized","tag-avalon-studios","tag-brian-k-vaughan","tag-danny-miki","tag-doctor-octopus","tag-mysterio","tag-negative-exposure","tag-spider-man","tag-staz-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26075","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=26075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26092,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26075\/revisions\/26092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}