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Crawwwwwling iiiin my skiiiiin! Welcome to part two of Snarkin\u2019 It Up With Kraven! In spite of all evidence to the contrary, I\u2019m not trying to be a jerk about this. Just reacting honestly like always. I mean, I\u2019ll say this, the art team is crrrrrushing it. These are some gorgeous comics. Mike Zeck is truly at the height of his powers. Bob McLeod is one of the period\u2019s best inkers, probably in no small part because he\u2019s a great penciler himself. This one\u2019s colors are by Janet Jackson! Not that Janet Jackson. The colors are moody and well-suited to the story. Nailing it. The story, though\u2026 Well, let\u2019s get into it.
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We begin standing over the tombstone of Spider-Man. \u201cHere Lies Spider-Man Slain By The Hunter.\u201d My man didn\u2019t even put his name on it. But also:
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I suppose if you\u2019ve spent your life killing things and wearing them, this is the next, uh, logical step. We cut to a woman running through the downpour, trying to get to shelter, as a new voice narrates, in lowercase and green. She slips in the rain and falls to the ground, as the voice talks about people running around like rats.
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Yoink! Last issue we frequently cut to a guy digging Spider-Man\u2019s grave, and now we continue to cut to said grave now that it\u2019s occupied. The lady wakes up in the sewer, surrounded by rats and whatnot, as green text ruminates on how people from \u201cup there\u201d smell different and pretend they\u2019re better than him. A figure approaches.
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Not a great name, buddy! This guy was created by DeMatteis for his Captain America run. He was mutated into a ratman by Baron Zemo & Arnim Zola to be used against Cap. He was last seen in a 1983 issue of MTU we haven\u2019t covered yet, also by DeMatteis, where Cap & Spidey fought him together. Now he\u2019s back. As we leave that poor woman to her fate, Mary Jane finally makes an appearance in this story.
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In MJ\u2019s case, the other textbox feels like an intrusive thought. That makes sense. It just wasn\u2019t working with Spidey last issue. MJ spots a rat in her apartment. Wielding one of her trademark giant boots, she hunts it down, arguing internally about whether Peter is dead or not.
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Having a bit of a breakdown, there. Everybody in this story having some sort of mental break on the same Tuesday sure is convenient! Then we check in with Kraven, prowling the night as Spider-Man. He narrates that it\u2019s not enough to kill The Spider, he must now become The Spider, proving himself superior (There\u2019s a loaded word in world of Spider-Man).
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He proceeds to crawl around his house like the weirdo he is (Thankfully wordlessly for awhile) before winding up back in his spider room or whatever, where he remembers he\u2019s not The Spider, he\u2019s still Kraven, and \u201chis metamorphosis is not complete.\u201d He begins to ask himself why he\u2019s doing this (Valid!) while drinking the mixture of herbs that gives him his power out of a bowl on the ground like a dog, \u201cshattering his Kravenness and letting the Spiderness in.\u201d Like, a grown man wrote that, and Marvel published it. He starts freaking out and has a Gollum\/Smeagol-type argument about whether his dad was a cool guy or not while breaking all the glass in the spider room. He is eventually blaming The Spider for turning Russia to communism (I wish I was joking) when this happens:
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Sure, man, why not? Why argue with anything, at this point? Everyone\u2019s on peyote. There are FOUR more issues of this. We cut back to Vermin, who has apparently eaten that woman, so that\u2019s nice. He sees a newspaper with Spider-Man on it, and even though he can\u2019t remember the word \u201cnewspaper,\u201d or what reading is, or anything about his life before yesterday, immediately recognizes the black suited Spider-Man as the red and blue guy he fought one time. Again, sure, why not? Why should anything make any sense? That leads him to recall Captain America, also.
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Seeing that spider scared him so bad he has to eat a rat just to calm his nerves. Hey, we\u2019ve all been there. Meanwhile, MJ is out on the streets in the rain, looking for Peter, pretty sure she\u2019ll find him dead. She rather rightly asks herself what she\u2019s doing when a couple of dudes start catcalling her. Stop me if you\u2019ve heard this one before. Hang on what\u2019s Kraven doing? Still fighting a giant pile of spiders shaped like a big spider and saying insane things to himself, the usual. He\u2019s having an internal struggle, telling himself he just made up this \u201cThe Spider\u201d thing to justify the fact that a guy in a spider suit beat him so many times, and aaaaaalmost stops being ridiculous, but then he\u2019s back to punching the big spider swarm and raving. Vermin is hearing a voice beckoning him to the surface (Yet again, sure, why not?)
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Sigh. Back to MJ, those two jerks start chasing her, as you expected, and she runs into an alley, as you expected, and then Spider-Man shows up. Sort of.
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Kraven got changed and go back to Manhattan REAL fast. Like, teleportation fast. And then just happened to pick Mary Jane as his first person to rescue as Spider-Man. Sure thing, man, that\u2019s not wild lazy writing or anything. Kraven leaps away, MJ obviously realizes that wasn\u2019t the real Spider-Man, Vermin emerges from the sewer to go find Spider-Man, and that\u2019s it for this issue. Fudge Stripes haunt the back of this issue, as well. Tune in next time for more armchair psychoanalysis, cannibalism, and rain. Spider-Man is still dead.
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