Ugh, let’s get this over with. This month, Land has definitely put the Spider-Man from JG Jones’ cover to Webspinners #12 behind this random lady. You might think, “Come on, that’s not even a very unique pose, how can you say it’s copied? Surely it would be easier to just draw it than to modify Jones’ original so much?” Your second point is reasonable, but Land is not:
Notice he even copied the collar bone, only now it’s pointed in a random direction and makes no sense. Notice also how Sarah’s had a totally different face on every cover. Just whatever woman’s face he had on hand that vaguely fit the composition.I think she’s Cindy Crawford this month. What a pro. About the level of quality this story deserves, tho, I must say.
Gosh, what luck.
As much as this story is punishing me for buying it, “Never saw somebody from New York before?” is pretty funny. The cop guy has a very thin file on the Stacy twins, but doesn’t seem to know much more than Spidey does. He does have some random picture of Gwen and the newborns someone took in the hospital, tho. Spidey and cop guy argue about whether it’s the kids’ fault for working for this drug lord to get their headache medicine as Sarah sneaks into his compound, wherever that is.
Ho. Lee. Crap. I cannot believe Scott Eaton just swiped one of Mark Buckingham’s endlessly recycled Spider-Men. Come on, Scott, Bucky’s wasn’t very good in the first place! Or the second, or twelfth, or thirty-eighth! Oh my God, this comic is draining all my joy de vivre. Hey, man, when in France… While Mark Buckingham’s Spider-Man rushes to his wife, Sarah fights her way into Dupres’ office, saying if he won’t leave her and Gabe alone, she’ll have to kill him. Good, fine, do it, who even cares?
Certainly making a case for Spider-Man’s “turn them into supercops” pitch, I suppose. He comes crashing through the window of Stately Osborn Manor as she continues her battle with Dupres.
One could quibble that Gabe shouldn’t, nay, couldn’t have the Ramos version of the Goblin glider here in the French home Norman hasn’t occupied since 1996, but who cares? I am rushing to the end here. Spidey hits Gabe in the face with a thing and he throws a bomb into the roof and buries himself in rubble while Spider-Man gets MJ to safety.
He finds Sarah with a gun to Dupres’ head and begins talking her out of killing him.
He won’t let go. Not ever. Granted, this is the last comic these 2 ever appear in (SORT OF), but he won’t let go.
2005 me was so, so smart for not buying these comics, and 20…20? 2019? Me is incredibly stupid for changing that. This is not technically the last time they appear, but, for one, it’s well over a decade before they’re seen again, and two, well… How they are seen is whole other brand of stupid. I don’t even want to think about it right now.