{"id":10242,"date":"2021-08-25T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=10242"},"modified":"2020-07-09T21:46:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T01:46:52","slug":"spider-man-gen13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/08\/25\/spider-man-gen13\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man\/Gen13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We wrap this block up with this, another non-canon crossover with Jim Lee\u2019s Wildstorm Universe at Image. Gen13 is a team of teen heroes. They\u2019re more or less mutants, with familiar powers. Fairchild\u2019s powers include super strength and being allergic to pants. Burnout is just The Human Torch (In powers, personality and even color scheme). Rainmaker controls the weather. I wanna say Roxy\u2019s power is gravity manipulation?…and that if she has a supername, I don\u2019t think I ever saw it in print? And Grunge does whatever Grunge does. I own a handful of Gen13 comics and other comics with them in them, and I literally never figured out what Grunge\u2019s power is supposed to be. A lot of Lee\u2019s mythology revolved around Team 7, a special ops team that got super powers on a mission that went bad in the 70s. Backlash, the previous Wildstorm character who met Spider-Man, was one of them, and some of Gen13 are the kids of his teammates. They\u2019re led by another former Team 7 member called Lynch. Anyway, Gen13 was a massive hit, launching the career of the oft-imitated J. Scott Campbell (And as it is very much a product of the art-crazed 90s, I suspect many fans couldn\u2019t even tell you who wrote it, but it was Brandon Choi). Campbell\u2019s aggressively oversexualized art of teenage girls, emblematic of the period, sold a lot of comics to sad and lonely dudes. But the Gen13 creative team is nowhere to be found here. This is written by seasoned Spidey scribe Peter David. And it\u2019s drawn by Stuart Immonen, a future Spider-Man MVP, working for years on Ultimate Spider-Man, a chunk of the time Spider-Man was an Avenger, and a later stint on ASM. He\u2019s still a relative newcomer here, tho, and hasn\u2019t developed the lavish and highly energetic style that would make him one of the most copied artists of the 2010s. But he\u2019s already plenty good by this point! Inks are courtesy of Cam Smith & Andrew Pepoy and colors are by Joe Rosas. The book opens with Spider-Man being beat up at a rock concert. The band \u201cBlack Lung Disease\u201d is playing, and Gen13 is in the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey is getting whupped up in the rafters by a woman who kinda looks like Black Widow in a cape and doesn\u2019t speak. She hit him with his true arch enemy, gas, before the issue started, so he\u2019s disoriented and doing poorly when she kicks him right off the catwalk toward the crowd below\u2026 and into Roxy\u2019s waiting arms as she sees him coming and slows his fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey immediately takes off, and the kids try to follow, but some creepy and crappy security won\u2019t let them follow back stage. Fairchild, their level headed leader, tells the gang to forget it, but then one of the security goons slaps her butt, so she hefts him off her feet with one hand and the kids go where they will. But Spidey\u2019s already gone, and recapping that The Bugle sent him out on tour with this band (Rather preposterous!) which is why he\u2019s in Gen13\u2019s home turf of California, and when he was headed to the gig, he was ambushed by the lady, who called him \u201ca means to an end.\u201d He mentions how whatever she did to him knocked out his Spider Sense in addition leaving him really disoriented as he catches tp the present in time to be shot at by cops and fall to the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shooting with no warning sounds like cops to me, Spidey. Oh, hey, Grunge is apparently bulletproof. Is Fairchild bulletproof, or just strong? I know very little, their comics tended to focus more on gratuitous butt shots than actual stories. Fairchild tackles one of the cops and inadvertently ends up on stage, where her teammates yell at her to stay there and be a distraction. Meanwhile, Spider-Man passes out, and the kids overrule Rainmaker\u2019s objections to take him back to their secret base. The objections continue as they get home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Burnout has a thing for Rainmaker, who is a lesbian (And if you think that was handled with class and taste in crappy mid-90s teen book, brother, have I got bad news for you), but I guess not above manipulating him. Then Lynch, the old guy who\u2019s their Professor X, comes downstairs ton conveniently announce he\u2019s going out of town. Roxy holds Spider-Man up on the ceiling so Lynch won\u2019t see him, and that even works, somehow. Then it briefly reminds us it\u2019s a Gen13 comic, even tho Immonen is far classier than the usual artists on said property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gen13: Fairchild\u2019s clothes ripped off or your money back. We cut to the following morning, and the surprising realization that the lady who tried to kill Spidey last night has a young daughter who\u2019s late for school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok! Back at the spot. Spider-Man wakes up and gets in a fight with the team\u2019s human looking android maid, who apparently wasn\u2019t informed he\u2019s here. As he comes bounding through the kitchen, Burnout sets his web pack on fire for some reason (?), forcing a dive into the pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This book is squarebound and impossible to photograph. Meanwhile, that lady is in country at a custody battle over her daughter with her husband. Then she gets a message in an earpiece from those dudes in that van and seems to become disoriented. Her lawyer asks if she\u2019s ok, calling her Heather, to which she answers, \u201cGuess again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a lot of detail for a character I assume won\u2019t appear in anything ever again. I guess she might\u2019ve come back in Gen13, I dunno. Back at their place, they\u2019ve just finished explaining their deal to Spider-Man (I wish they\u2019d told me!), who says he thinks he\u2019s 100% now. They start talking about how they\u2019ve looked up to him since they were kids and he gets very uncomfortable about the idea of being old. As he makes his exit, he tells Rainmaker he feels weird about being looked up to by Gen Xers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cut to Glider\u2019s lawyer, on the phone with a client, expositing that she was hired by the dad of a guy who was a guard at I\/O, the secret intelligence agency the kids escaped from. Lynch used to be the Nick Fury of that until he went on the run with the kids. The guard lost his job and is now among the goons with Glider getting payback from the kids. Sure, ok. Back at the house, Fairchild had just found Glider in their database when the goons smash into the house. Rainmaker blows most of them out a window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fight fight fight, the goons bring down Burnout but are being made super heavy by Roxy when Glider attacks her, Spidey attacks Glider, you know, super hero stuff. The faceless goon responsible for all this is about to shoot roxy when Grunge saves her. Maybe he can gain the properties of things he touches like Absorbing Man? He looks like concrete. I really don\u2019t know what he does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The inker on the back halfo f this book is really phoning it in, my goodness. Well, you won\u2019t believe it, but the fight happens to spread to a nearby school yard, and GUESS WHOSE CHILD IS THERE?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Glider tells the goon not to threaten the kids, and he doesn\u2019t listen, so she vanishes and reappears with one of the goon\u2019s gun, mowing down all the bad guys to Spider-Man\u2019s horror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next day, Lunch comes home to show the kids a Daily Bugle with them on the cover with Spider-Man, destroying their hopes of keeping everything a secret. How\u2026 has that been published already? I guess. Peter maybe coulda emailed them photos in \u201896, but they wouldn\u2019t have been very good. And he\u2019s flying home right now, thinking he only submitted a photo where you can see Gen13 or Glider\u2019s faces. He wonders what happened to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ooooohkay. What an odd book. I obviously didn\u2019t remember it at all. Certainly haven\u2019t picked it up since it came out. The core of the story being some random bad guy is very strange. But I guess that\u2019s comics. In spite of starring the real Spider-Man, this was published the month before Peter returned to the tights in Spider-Man 75. Why? Who knows? It\u2019s the 2nd book starring Peter to be released during the time Ben was Spider-Man, but I\u2019m saving the other one for a later block where it\u2019ll make more sense. And that\u2019s it for 1996 for awhile. Next post, we jump back to 1990, for the debut of Adjectiveless Spider-Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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