{"id":20421,"date":"2024-03-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=20421"},"modified":"2024-03-21T00:39:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T04:39:58","slug":"web-annual-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/03\/20\/web-annual-10\/","title":{"rendered":"WEB Annual 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There was that long running series, Superman\u2019s Girlfriend Lois Lane. It would\u2019ve been funny if they did a Carnage\u2019s Girlfriend Shriek mini. It would\u2019ve perfectly summed up the 90s, in a way. This issue does not make any sense tonally where it is, but it definitely takes place here, so whatever, another failure for Danny Fingroth. I think the table of contents in this issue shows Spider-Man defeating Shriek. Way to blow the ending, boys. This one brought to you by Terry Kavanagh (plot), Mike Lackey (script), Jerry Bingham, Tom Palmer & Freddy Mendez. It\u2019s so weird to me that Jerry Bingham was getting so much work in the Spider-Office in this period. No disrespect intended, he just doesn\u2019t really fit the vibe of the times. This issue\u2019s inside cover is an ad for a series of trading cards where someone\u2019s digitally painted over some existing comic art. I bet no one who drew the originals saw a check off that. I love comics, but I would never draw comics for a living. Also, it\u2019s 1994, so the digital art is\u2026 not as good as it would be today! Well, Shriek is being wheeled into the new Ravencroft Hannibal Lecter-style. From\u2026 where, exactly? She\u2019s just been prisoner transferred, like Carnage in the last annual, but\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, this is those jerks trying to set Kafka up to fail, as seen in the last issue of Web. In short order, Shriek\u2019s taken to a medical lab, where they plan to do an MRI on her (It is not abbreviated and I wonder why), and that Barker guy proves to be a real jerk, real fast, and he\u2019s not alone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What a scumbag! What a passel of scumbags! The totally unwanted return of Warrant! The thing about comics in this moment is they\u2019re just awash in generic armored losers. More than anyone could count.  Who could have been surprised when the bottom fell out if the guys spinning the plates really think WARRANT will be setting the world on fire? Man. Having unpleasant Arachnis Project flashbacks. In Kafka\u2019s office, even Spider-Man\u2019s already picked up on how that Reynard guy has set her up to fail, but she says her back\u2019s against the wall. Then they go check out John Jameson at the security command center, so it\u2019s time for Shriek to get loose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shriek controls electricity? What? I thought she just yelled and also had some kinda empathic powers. This character sucks so bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Come on, man, Spider-Man can take her by himself, why would you send all your cannon fodder in there? These idiots really do not need to be here. Shriek frees that bald guy and they exchange some banter as she goes to free some of the others. This\u2026 somehow\u2026 causes communications to go down, because of her powers, according to Kafka. Her powers make no sense at all now. So now all those Dollar Tree supervillains Jameson helpfully explained earlier are on the loose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cEverybody hold your breath! I\u2019m gonna talk the whole time, tho!\u201d Also, \u201cyou interfering firebug, how dare you interfere?\u201d Did Lackey bang out this script in 10 minutes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A transitional period just before the worst period in all of Spider-Man history is probably not a good place to be. Things haven\u2019t exactly been great this block. For crying out loud, a Tom DeFalco Mysterio story is the best thing I\u2019ve read so far, that\u2019s not a high bar. Mayhem is right back up instantly somehow and after them again, so they don\u2019t break through quite yet. John assures Spider-Man that that door will hold until they can get their systems back online, and then of course, the baddies blow it open. Gross. Negligence. Spidey just says, \u201cI\u2019ll save the REALLY sarcastic stuff for later,\u201d and that\u2019s pretty good. Then it\u2019s fightin\u2019 time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bingham has largely avoided his style being smothered by Palmer so far, but that panel 3 Jameson is totally Palmer\u2019d. Spidey webs the fire guy again and slams him in Mayhem. Jameson almost by accident manages to tranquilize Gale, and she falls on Webber. Spidey has somehow webbed Mayhem into a cell during that, and kicks fire guy in the gut when he tries to attack him from behind, so rather quickly, they\u2019re down to just Shriek to deal with.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey dances around with Shriek for awhile, and then she decides to mentally command the other 3 losers to kill him (Like they weren\u2019t already trying to????), and then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What kind of insane dialogue is that from Spider-Man?? That is the panel from the ToC, by the way. Why on Earth did they lead with that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HOW have Shriek and the others been locked up? By WHOMST? When? Where were the invisible helpers during all of the preceding? UGH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What an absolute disaster of a story. What is panel 3 on this page? Who even is that? Is that Edward colored wrong? Oh, man. Painful. The next story stars Warrant, and that\u2019s sure enough to make me skip it. It\u2019s drawn by Alex Saviuk, tho, which is a surprise. Then Black Cat gets a 2nd story in an annual this year. They\u2019re about to launch her a solo miniseries, so I guess they want to get some hype going. Mike Lackey writes this one solo, with Sergio Cariello, Keith Williams & Bob Sharen on art. Felicia is swinging home in the snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHer fury may well soil my covert burgling?\u201d What? What is Mike Lackey\u2019s deal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fox maces her, grabs whatever he\u2019s after and dips. This leads to a legit great page of chasing. I\u2019ve never heard of Sergio Cariello, but he does a lot with a little space, doing some inventive page layouts, and his stuff is crisp. Felicia catches Fox by landing on top of him, but while she\u2019s yelling at him, some guy runs off with the thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our man Sergio draws women\u2019s faces quite like Brett Blevins. That \u201celeven\u201d joke hurt me, for real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She 100% would\u2019ve said \u201cSpider,\u201d not \u201cPeter,\u201d Mike. Well, that\u2019s that. At least the art was interesting. Some lineup on that miniseries. The art team from Arachnis Project and Kavanagh. Woof. Ya know, I am sadly remembering all the mindbogglingly terrible dialogue in AP, which was also Mike Lackey. Ugh, anyway, whatever, final story\u2019s a Prowler one by Joey Cavalieri, Vince Giarrano & Bob Sharen. Cavalieri is the editor of the 2099 books at the moment. I wanna say I saw some of Giarrano\u2019s art in DC Comics around this time. Prowler has apparently been looking into a gang robbing trucks, and now he\u2019s caught them in the act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hobie gets shot with a giant 90s gun that goes \u201cZZAMM!\u201d and somehow just makes him pass out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What\u2026 is this? Prowler has managed to free himself off-panel on the next page, and also is whipping a chain around braining all the goons. That happened way too fast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok! Was that supposed to be the kid from that other annual? I forget which one. Woulda been nice to say. The rest of the issue is pinups, and not particularly exciting ones. The End.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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