{"id":21505,"date":"2024-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=21505"},"modified":"2022-09-09T19:39:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T23:39:26","slug":"chapter-one-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/05\/31\/chapter-one-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter One 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With as sped up as this series is, I half expect Spider-Man to go to Florida via experimental teleporter. Steve Bucellato is coloring now, and of course, on page one, Spider-Man\u2019s in combat with the Lizard, but on page 2, he\u2019s still a prisoner of Dr. Doom. Actually, it rolls back time even further so Spidey can get trapped again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Byrne has committed so hard to \u201cthe spider used to be blue.\u201d I assumed all this electric floor nonsense would be replacing all the traps and gags Doom threw at our hero in ASM 5<\/a>, so imagine my surprise when Byrne proceeds to do all those, too. Spidey beats them all, as in the original, but then knocks Doom\u2019s head off, revealing a Doombot. But THEN the FF show up, as in the original, leading to Doom fleeing, but this time he leaves his big spaceship crashing toward the city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The FF save Spidey and Flash as Ben literally punches that big spaceship into the river, which seems absurd. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Liz is WAY more of a jerk in Byrne\u2019s telling. Which makes her calling Peter last issue all the more absurd. And now we\u2019re into ASM 6<\/a>. John Jameson sent JJJ a Bigfoot-esque video tape of Lizard in action in FL, prompting JJJ to issue his challenge to Spider-Man. We skip Peter trying to convince JJJ to send him down there, and we skip the entire business at the museum, because why would a Spider-Man comic take any time to develop its support cast? We just jump to Spider-Man accepting the challenge, then JJJ & Peter on a plane, skipping Peter getting May\u2019s permission, because again, who needs the supporting cast? In this telling, Spider-Man insisted that Peter go as revenge for taking embarrassing photos of him, which is actually not bad, to be honest. In the original, JJJ could\u2019ve conceivably sent, I dunno, a grown adult instead of a child, so good for you, Byrne, you made a good choice. Soon, way too soon, Spider-Man\u2019s in the swamp, trying to get to Curt Connors\u2019 house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m surprised Byrne put those pointy teeth in Lizard\u2019s mouth. That\u2019s McFarlane\u2019s move, that should be forbidden. Only one man\u2019s allowed to change these characters according to that man. As in the original, they scrap until Liz flings Spidey into the distance, where he spots a house and just assumes it\u2019s the right one, and is correct. The Lizard story in general is just rife with places Byrne could\u2019ve made improvements, and he did get that one in, but I continue to be disappointed, generally. Spidey meets Martha, who does NOT tell him the Lizard is her husband before he\u2019s outside menacing Billy, as Lizard\u2019s origin has been relegated to that zero issue. Wouldn\u2019t want to waste precious pages explaining what\u2019s happening, let alone creating empathy for Curt! No, instead, Lizard just makes off with Billy, and Martha knows where he\u2019s going, but STILL won\u2019t tell Spider-Man the truth, and then they\u2019re attacked by alligators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHaven\u2019t you figured it out yet?\u201d He should have, but this Spider-Man seems pretty stupid sometimes. Having the first page of your book be the cliffhanger at the end of your book is nnnnnnuts. And more or less SOP for the rest of this series. I will never understand. Who knows what madness lurks in the next issue? Aside for an incredibly bland new costume for Electro, that is\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With as sped up as this series is, I half expect Spider-Man to go to Florida via experimental teleporter. Steve Bucellato is coloring now, and of course, on page one, Spider-Man\u2019s in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[11,69,1859,106,288,12,72,13,180,172,1758,68,247,2,994,1710,663],"class_list":["post-21505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-betty-brant","tag-billy-connors","tag-chapter-one","tag-dr-doom","tag-fantastic-four","tag-flash-thompson","tag-human-torch","tag-j-jonah-jameson","tag-john-byrne","tag-liz-allen","tag-lizard","tag-martha-connors","tag-reed-richards","tag-spider-man","tag-steve-bucellato","tag-sue-storm","tag-the-thing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21507,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505\/revisions\/21507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}