{"id":21556,"date":"2024-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=21556"},"modified":"2022-09-09T20:33:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T00:33:14","slug":"chapter-one-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/06\/10\/chapter-one-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter One 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We\u2019re down to the 2nd-to-last issue. This book has chopped up and disrespected a whole pile of classic comics to cram all they wanted to cram into it. Truly important comics have been cut in half repeatedly. And yet, Byrne gives AN ENTIRE ISSUE to Spider-Man\u2019s appearance in Tales to Astonish 57<\/a>. EGGHEAD!!! Including this AT ALL is wasting the reader\u2019s time, and THIS gets more attention than the first appearance of The Green Goblin?? THIS was worth not bothering to introduce the Enforcers at all? THIS was worth Peter Parker\u2019s life being cut out of his own book? EGGHEAD!!!!! I am flabbergasted. Genuinely. This is patently insane. And historically inaccurate. This story was published the same month as ASM 14. It shouldn\u2019t happen this late. AND this ruins the crazy amount of Untold Tales issues Busiek crammed into ASM 17-19, which is less important, but still noteworthy.\u00a0 There is literally no reason for this to get adapted, let alone get a whole issue to itself. Dreadful. Joe Rosas colors this one. Egghead is reading about how Spider-Man fled from his fight with Green Goblin in the paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If there\u2019s one thing people reading Chapter One care about, it\u2019s Egghead\u2019s beef with Giant-Man. This is just unbelievable. Can you imagine this in the hands of the new readers it\u2019s allegedly meant for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1998 and Hank\u2019s still giving Jan orders like she\u2019s his employee instead of his girlfriend. Jan attacks, Spidey snares her in his web without even knowing what\u2019s happening, she radios Hank for help. At least he doesn\u2019t call her a \u201clittle fool\u201d this time, but don\u2019t worry, he\u2019s still plenty condescending. Hank shows up for the fight and then we check in with Egghead. The whole notion that Peter\u2019s too scared to be Spider-Man for Aunt May\u2019s sake is right out the window. It was such a unique and interesting hook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The heroes fight, the cops call in reinforcements, Egghead can now go steal the armored car, more or less as before. I guess I\u2019m just not going to get over this. Meanwhile, the heroes stop fighting somewhat faster than the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhy can\u2019t you stop expecting 2 people who attacked you without reason to attack you, Spider-Man?\u201d The action goes pretty much as before. Egghead is the one to try to swat Wasp with a newspaper instead of a goon, some of the dialogue\u2019s different, but broad strokes, all the same. Including Wasp pointlessly hating Spider-Man once it\u2019s all over. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jan\u2019s not really meant to be that much younger than Hank, is she? Man, Byrne loves his age gaps.  He revealed Sue Storm and Reed Richards had feelings for each other when he was in college and she was a child, the man\u2019s creepy as can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quick page of \u201cman on the street\u201d discussion of Spider-Man, and then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With this complete waste of $2.50 down, we\u2019re almost done. I can\u2019t wait. I know the reboot isn\u2019t very good, either, but not much is worse than Chapter One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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