MKSM 04

Another post, another terrible comic book. Man, it hasn’t been this rough in a long time. Another good cover by the Dodsons, at least. Actual storytelling on a cover, you can tell Bill Jemas is gone. Well, Peter hallucinates Aunt May at his bedside for awhile before we get into it.

I would bring up the fact that Vulture has met Peter more than once, but why bother? Really, why bother?

Marvel Knights Spider-Man: “This Ain’t Your Daddy’s Spider-Man Comic! Insofar as your daddy’s Spider-Man comic was, like, maybe enjoyable in some way.” I’m running this next page…

…because this grandson will be stricken from the record as quickly as he appeared, but Vulture WILL end up having a grandchild, and it will be a much longer walk than this. Vultch goes on about how meeting his grandson changed his life, how they came to visit him during his whole most recent prison stay and he saw them twice a week once he got out, and how angry he is. That sounds pretty justifiable, I guess. Then he rips the bandages off and has no idea who the guy underneath is. I don’t even care. He is disgusted that he and all the others were “beaten by a nobody” all these years and just drops him. What did he expect, George Clooney?

She really did get here fast from Florida. The flow of the book is then broken up by a bound in poster for the TV show Stargate Atlantis. Man, how long’s it been since something was bound into one of these things? The 90s, I think, those dumb milk trading cards. Vulture is very mad and crashes into Felicia, sending Peter flying. He manages to catch onto a ledge while Vulture drivers Black Cat through a whole office building. But, you know, he’s the Vulture, so she shoots a grappling hook onto his ankle, swings up onto his back and drives him into a billboard. I mean, it’s the exact same thing every time.

Yeah, it’s the Daily Planet gang in there. Making an unusual amount of appearances in Spider-Man comics lately. Speaking of, might as well mention this is seeing print alongside the Pulse #4. Jessica and Ben have just had Norman Osborn blow up his office door in the Green Goblin costume. And yes, the people Felicia was looking for JUST HAPPEN TO BE Electro and Vulture, what luck. This comic sucks. And keeps on sucking as Electro wakes up incapacitated and tied to a chair by a “Dr. Winkler” in service of the Owl. It’s supposed to be the guy who made “The Winkler Device” for Kingpin way back in ASM 59. You know, the guy who died in ASM 61? He was never seen since, and will not be seen again after this issue. But, hey, who cares? I don’t! I have washed my hands of this piece of shit comic. Electro is shown that they have mutilated the Vulture’s face for his treachery, and then Winkler leans in to do the same to Electro as we leave the scene. Super good.