{"id":20883,"date":"2024-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=20883"},"modified":"2022-08-14T00:24:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T04:24:13","slug":"spider-man-elektra-annual-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/04\/11\/spider-man-elektra-annual-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man\/Elektra Annual ’98"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year, Marvel tried something weird with the annuals and made them all team-ups. One Jack Morelli writes, Joyce Chen draws, Andy Lanning inks, Christie Scheele colors. Jack Morelli is actually John, and Joyce Chin\u2019s name is spelled wrong. John apparently worked a lot as a letterer, but only wrote 2 comics. He\u2019s also married to Christie Schelle and in the Spider-Man suit on the cover of MTU 128<\/a>. How bout that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh man, he\u2019s gonna be a WRITER writer, ok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you have to explain your figure of speech, maybe you shouldn\u2019t use it. The Silencer says some stuff in Italian, injects something into this guy, then breaks his neck when he won\u2019t talk, all under a lot of florid language. As we see Asam laid out under a big poster revealing he used to be a boxer called Big Bear, we\u2019re told this story is called \u201cThe Night They Killed Big Bear.\u201d I wonder if Spider-Man will be in it. Not yet, we\u2019re off to see a guy called Max Igoe, Daily Bugle sports writer. A page full of text tells us he\u2019s a very decorated writer with a screenplay he wants to write as he climbs out his window and jumps to his death. Except Spider-Man catches him on\u2026 a 2nd title page? \u201c…It Was Written In The Stars.\u201d Ok! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Everyone who\u2019s ever made fun of Brian Michael Bendis for putting too much dialogue on a page owes him an apology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, you can\u2019t say this book doesn\u2019t have personality. Now we\u2019re off to meet Mac Stewart, who\u2019s apparently a player in Elektra\u2019s monthly in this period, and who\u2019s been beaten almost to death in her book by The Hand for some reason. And now he\u2019s home from the hospital in a wheelchair, contemplating a package from Sam. But, of course, some goons bust in looking for it, and after the work him over a little, they find themselves dealing with Elektra. Who apparently has a bounty on her head (It\u2019s going around lately!), so the goons are keen to kill her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elektra has no problem with goons, but then The Silencer appears in a cloud of captions talking about how scary he is. Elektra fights, anyway, but her attacks go right through him. Meanwhile, one of the goons finds the package, but the boss is busy grabbing Elektra\u2019s sais and crushing their blades in his hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is Mac dead? Who knows? Peter Parker is at home with his lovely bride, where he\u2019s telling her he\u2019s been copying the Bugle\u2019s back issue files, so he has a big archive on their computer (I have never seen them with a computer), and he\u2019s looking up Sam\u2019s back story.  A pretty standard deal involving coming up from nothing, becoming the champ, being told to throw a fight, getting kicked out of boxing. He\u2019s almost Matt Murdock\u2019s dad, except he lived a lot longer. Peter decides there\u2019s nothing in his files he doesn\u2019t already know and to just go see that Scarpetti guy. Not sure why that wasn\u2019t option 1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mac gives Elektra more of Sam\u2019s backstory, then sets her on the path to Scarpetti, also. Scarpetti\u2019s at his rich people house, about to open the box Sam sent Mac. Spider-Man\u2019s in his window watching, but then Elektra crashes through the door on top of Scarpetti\u2019s bodyguard, so Spidey comes in through the window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That was somewhat hard to follow. Next page, Elektra\u2019s back in her nurse costume, knocking out a goon also impersonating a nurse trying to kill Mac. Spidey comes in the window, and Elektra tells Mac the package was a tape, but they don\u2019t understand the message on it. So she plays it for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sam talks like a 70s Jack Kirby character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, I don\u2019t know much about Elektra, really, but I\u2019m bettin\u2019 Mac didn\u2019t make it out of her 90s series alive, \u2018cuz I\u2019ve never heard of him. Oh, looking it up, her title ended the same month this was published. Anything can happen here, as long as it happens to Mac! Well, the heroes sneak into the planetarium, and Spider-Man finds the spot he was looking for, and what do you know, there\u2019s a key and a note hidden in one of the \u201cstars.\u201d The note points them to a locker in a boxing gym, but before they can go check it out, The Silencer shows up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over the years, Art Adams\u2019 drawings of women have become more and more aggressively, embarrassingly sexualized. Joyce Chin is his wife. I guess it\u2019s just a family business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elektra keeps Silencer\u2019s focus on her while Spider-Man picks up the meteor that inexplicably hurts him and chucks it right at him. For a guy who abhors killing, he sure seems to have killed the guy as he kind of disintegrates or maybe gets absorbed by the meteor, hard to say. This comic is too hard boiled to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pretty certain yes, finito, but I\u2019ll look it up, sure. Nope. finito. This was fun, tho. A different flavor. If you\u2019re gonna be 6th Spider-Man comic out this month, the least you can do is try to do something different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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