{"id":26248,"date":"2025-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=26248"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:39:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:39:23","slug":"tac-v2-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/04\/18\/tac-v2-13\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC V2 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I like Spider-Man running at us on the side of this building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slick action. As the battle continues, the difference between this and Ramos once more really snaps into focus, as the movement is clean and easy to follow while still being highly stylized. No \u201cIs he lifting that train or being hit by it?\u201d in this. I\u2019m focusing on the art because the story is awful. It\u2019s not too unusual for the period, but Jenkins is just making up his own versions of characters now, continuity be damned. That Venom story and now this run counter to everything that ever came before them. Spider-Man chases the Lizard through the sewers, thinking he finally understands that Curt lied about the Lizard being a separate personality all along. That makes no sense. No sense. Not one previous Lizard story backs that up. He further thinks the sense of unease he \u201calways had\u201d around Curt was his intuition trying to warn him. Oh yeah? That sense of unease that led you to him for help every time you had a science problem for like 15 years, and he always, always, always helped you? If you\u2019re so uneasy around him, why did you tell him your secret at some point I apparently missed? Oh, right, it\u2019s because this is crap.  The Lizard goes to his sister\u2019s house and kidnaps Billy. Spider-Man is in hot pursuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They keep fighting and arguing and somehow not hurting Billy. Lizard throws his son into some trash in alley so they can keep having this stupid, nonsensical argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ya know, that top panel does sort of have graffiti energy. Scott\u2019s been having a lot of fun with that tail. Spider-Man hands Billy over to the conveniently arriving police, then tries to chase Lizard, but he\u2019s gone. Then it\u2019s the next day, and regular ol\u2019 Curt Connors walks into a bank with a gun to rob it. Then a security guard draws on him and he gives up immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Find out what, man? That he\u2019s the Lizard? He\u2019s already BEEN TO JAIL for it! Uggggh, I really did not like this at all. This kind of brutal and pointless retconning\/ignoring history is antithetical to the superhero comics medium. Its entire existence is about building on what came before, not tossing it out the window. Ugh. Whenever I think of Daimen Scott now, I think of the excellent DC Comic Solo, in which each issue let a different artist go wild doing anything they wanted. All kinds of short stories and pinups, either featuring the DC characters or not, as I recall, working with writers or going it alone. Scott had an issue of that book that was excellent, alongside a real murder\u2019s row of talent. Tim Sale, Darwyn Cooke, Richard Corben, Howard Chaykin, Paul Pope, Mike Allred, Sergio Aragones\u2026 Such a diverse array of art styles. That was such a cool series. Like all anthologies, it didn\u2019t last too long, just 12 issues, but I loved it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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