{"id":16707,"date":"2023-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=16707"},"modified":"2021-12-31T14:43:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T18:43:11","slug":"web-016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/04\/07\/web-016\/","title":{"rendered":"WEB 016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, that\u2019s weird, right? In this era, Spidey group editor Christopher Priest was trying to justify having so many Spider-titles by giving them all a unique flavor. ASM was the big whiz bang superhero book, TAC was sort of the more street level book, and\u2026 well, I guess this is \u201cmystery and suspense!\u201d I\u2019ve not actually read much Web in this period. We may recall that back in #14, David Michelinie began his run on the title, and with this issue, future X-Men\/Wolverine\/Image Comics superstar Marc Silvestri begins a short run as penciler before moving onto fame and fortune in the X-Office. He\u2019s inked by the great Kyle Baker, and colors are courtesy Bob Sharen, this is quite a line-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Opens more like a Hellboy comic than a Spider-Man. Speaking of whom, he\u2019s swinging around in the pouring rain in Manhattan, and realizing he\u2019s sick. The rain\u2019s keeping the city quiet tonight, so he goes home. He laments not having and  not making any money, and decides to go by The Bugle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weird printing error on his face in panel 1. Robbie doesn\u2019t have work for him, but JJJ shows up to guide him to the long-delayed reveal of\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This art is interesting. I\u2019m quite familiar with Silvestri\u2019s X-Men, among the first I ever saw, but I don\u2019t know how his earlier stuff looked. And while Kyle Baker is an incredible, versatile cartoonist, his inks can be pretty heavy-handed. I\u2019m not sure what to make of this. As odd as it might sound, as Pete & Joy fly to their assignment on the next page, there\u2019s an unmistakably Silvestri profile shot of Peter, at least. When they arrive at the factory, instead of riots, they find\u2026 no one at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joy\u2019s decided lack of tact winds Peter up fighting the whole mob. While he ducks some swings and punches one guy, he feels he has to get beat up to hide his secret. One of them get\u2019s Joy\u2019s stiletto heel in the foot, and she yells that she saw Peter fight a gang in TAC Annual 5, why is he holding back? Remembering that, he decides to whup a few more guys. Joy maces a few as Peter makes one punch another with a quick duck, but twice as many angry guys round the corner, and our heroes have to flee. They duck into an alley, where a woman tells them to come hide with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The \u201cmen without faces\u201d thing was tipping us back into Hellboy territory until they\u2019re revealed to just be your run of the mill supervillain goons. Not excited about this \u201cRain Man\u201d riff they\u2019re alluding to. The van stops in a clearing and is promptly elevatored underground. As they\u2019re led into some caves, Peter webs a guy\u2019s foot, causing a distraction and making a break for it. He runs down a tunnel pursuers say is a dead end, but when they get to the wall, they\u2019re met with Spider-Man, who quickly knocks them out. As usual, I\u2019m left wondering why he puts the costume on if he doesn\u2019t want people to know Spider-Man is here. Especially after knocking out these goons. Take one of their suits! But he doesn\u2019t, and proceeds to find a whole underground city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joy (Looking very much like a Silvestri woman in panel 2) has already been getting wise to Peter\u2019s dual life in the last block of this era. I wonder how that resolves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, it\u2019s Magma, the ludicrous villain created by Michelinie & Herb Trimpe in MTU 110<\/a>. He apparently made it into 2 issues of Iron Man since then, but he\u2019s back. And I knew he was coming because next issue begins a stunt I\u2019ve actually read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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