{"id":2258,"date":"2019-11-26T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2019-06-23T00:54:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T04:54:45","slug":"web-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/11\/26\/web-116\/","title":{"rendered":"WEB 116"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

And we\u2019re back. I love a good bash & trash issue, don’t you? As you may recall, we left off on page 6 of this issue in the end of the 115 post. After Spidey tagged FACADE with a tracer, the next page is this:
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He\u2019s \u201cThe Spider\u201d now, you see. And, in truth, he was \u201cThe Spider\u201d last issue, too, I just didn\u2019t mention it. Somehow, all these stories are happening at once. It\u2019s so dumb. Robbie suggests Amy say something, but she\u2019s just not able, so this dingus Cole Cooper starts talking. Archer Bryce shows up and has a very rude chat with Betty during the funeral.
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This is some funeral! Lance Bannon was in these comics for 15 years, he deserves better. The whole day passes (My god, the timeline), and we catch up with Chase, Betty, and JJJ in the latter\u2019s office. Betty shares a list of her suspects (What have they been doing all day?) without actually naming any, people who could gain financially from stealing the armor, and almost implies she thinks it\u2019s Bryce when JJJ says he has a confession to make.
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I  mean, no one REALLY thought it was JJJ, right? If he\u2019d stolen the suit to fight Spider-Man, 100%, 300%, even, but not to kill Lance. FACADE is stopped just short of smashing through the window by Spider-Man. Or, I guess by \u201cTHE SPIDER.\u201d As he engages, Spidey thinks that he followed Betty here from the grave and waited (WHAT was anyone DOING all day!?) as their battle turns into a chase.
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Spidey webs FACADE\u2019s hand and foot with his suddenly conducive webbing, completing a circuit so FACADE zaps himself. I did terrible in science classes, but\u2026 that doesn\u2019t seem real. While FACADE is paralyzed by his own zap, Spider-Man rips his chest plate open, but in the process, he gets hit by some of the zap, too, and passes out. When he wakes up, whoever was inside is gone, and Betty, JJJ and Chase have found him. He swings away, Betty thinks she\u2019s going to finish investigating Bryce, JJJ uncharacteristically says nothing at all, and Chase says he\u2019s going to investigate everyone at the funeral, since they all knew where to find the 3 of them. The still-secret guy who wore the armor visits Lance\u2019s grave, thinking that when he killed him, he also \u201cburied the man inside,\u201d and now that he\u2019s tasted power and doesn\u2019t have it anymore, he\u2019s nothing but a hollow shell. Aw, poor murderer is sad now. Meanwhile, at the hospital\u2026
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Wait, we\u2019re not gonna find out who FACADE is? And the next issue of WEB begins the crossover revealing the mystery man??? WHAT???
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I just looked it up. FACADE\u2019s pilot was NEVER REVEALED. Kavanagh hoped to make the mystery a long-running subplot. To pull a Hobgoblin, basically. But no one cared, so it never came back! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Holy crap. Someone interview that man and find out who FACADE was, this is absurd. SHEESH.
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My God, Magnum. Uh, anyway, we gotta settle up with the other titles, and then our next issue of WEB reveals the other mystery man. Well, actually, we\u2019ll see him slightly before that, but you know.
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This is Alex Saviuk\u2019s last issue. Seven years on Web, and a few issues of ASM before that, and the Parallel Lives graphic novel and several promotional comics, is a serious legacy on the character. And he\u2019s not done! He leaves to illustrate a comic adapting the then-new Spider-Man Saturday morning cartoon for 3 years. From there, he\u2019ll go to work on the Spider-Man newspaper strip, bringing his more Romita-inspired style back. He\u2019s still doing that as I type this! He\u2019s a Spidey lifer. Big ups to you, Alex, wherever you are.
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