{"id":4882,"date":"2020-05-20T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T04:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2019-06-22T23:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T03:55:18","slug":"web-049","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/05\/20\/web-049\/","title":{"rendered":"WEB 049"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ladies & gentlemen, in the wake of all that Inferno madness, may I present to you, a fill-in issue. Much as I love Charles Vess, this isn\u2019t his strongest cover. Weird hands. Inside, we got writer Peter David (Just can\u2019t stay away), illustrator Val Mayerik and colorist Janice Cohen. They begin their tale on a drug dealer waiting on the corner for business, flipping a coin. A kid comes up and wants to buy something, but doesn\u2019t have enough money. Before they can argue about it, Spider-Man webs the drug dealer, Winston, from the shadows.
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The camera panel sort of insinuates someone\u2019s watching this fracas, but that\u2019s just Peter\u2019s camera, doing its thing. He leaves Winston for the cops, the dealer yelling \u201cWhat\u2019d I ever do to you?\u201d Which proves a fine segue for Spidey to flash back to why he had such a beef with that guy. It goes back to this morning, when Mary Jane came out of the subway and saw her friend Lorraine across the street\u2026 with this Winston guy. She ran over to say hello.
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Peter was in a meeting with Kate Cushing, and MJ called the city desk to get him. He found his way to Lorraine\u2019s, where she refused treatment, saying she\u2019d been to rehab and it didn\u2019t work. MJ wasn\u2019t letting her go, though. She asked Peter to get rid of Winston, scare him off, knowing the cops wouldn\u2019t hold him for long. Peter decided to wait \u2018til nighttime, and also headed back to The Bugle with an idea for a side quest\u2026
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Thusly, the next day, when Winston tries to take his business to another part of town, Spider-Man is thee to ruin it. Winston flees into the subway, while elsewhere, MJ is trying to get Lorraine some help, but the facility she\u2019s gone to is overworked and can\u2019t see her for six months. Meanwhile, Winston\u2019s picking up a new shipment of product (Hidden in a trash can? That seems like a bad system), but guess who\u2019s right behind him?
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Spidey keeps ruining Winston\u2019s day as MJ finally gets Lorraine to a private facility, but the cost is way too high for Lorraine to pay, and she runs out in tears. Rough going. She takes Lorraine home, and wants to go out to talk to some more people, asking Lorraine if she\u2019ll be ok alone for a few hours, and Lorraine, of course, takes off as soon as MJ\u2019s gone. For his part, Spidey\u2019s lost Winston, who had a cab zig zag all over some alleyways to give him the slip, unknowingly getting out of range of the Spider Sense, but Spidey\u2019s looking for him. But also worrying about how invested Mary Jane\u2019s gotten in all this.
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Spidey swings into an instant warzone, smashing through the window to be greeted by a handful of goons with a lot of firepower. MJ has now returned to Lorraine\u2019s to find her missing, after having talked to \u201cher more high-powered friends\u201d and gotten whoever that is to agree to pay for her treatment and one of them even wanted Lorraine to model their work, but\u2026 no Lorraine. MJ decides to wait \u2018til she comes back. Meanwhile, Spider-Man is doing his thing, tearing through all the goons until everyone\u2019s unconscious.
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Peter doesn\u2019t feel any better when he hooks back up with Mary Jane and is told they found Lorraine unconscious in an alley, having done some kinda drugs that really messed her up, and her chances aren\u2019t good.
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Grim ending! But a realistic one. Pretty good issue. Cool to see Peter & MJ working together on something, even if they weren\u2019t often actually together for it. Wish there had been a lot more of them as partners during the marriage era. I feel like most writers just didn\u2019t know what to do with them.
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Ladies & gentlemen, in the wake of all that Inferno madness, may I present to you, a fill-in issue. Much as I love Charles Vess, this isn\u2019t his strongest cover. Weird hands….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[286,21,333,2,583,265],"class_list":["post-4882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-kate-cushing","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-peter-david","tag-spider-man","tag-val-mayerik","tag-web-of-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882","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=4882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4893,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions\/4893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}