{"id":23207,"date":"2024-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=23207"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:41:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:41:55","slug":"rogg-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/10\/21\/rogg-3\/","title":{"rendered":"ROGG 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

No reason Norman couldn\u2019t have reverted to the classic suit for this. I wish he had. We open on the Green Goblin throwing an unconscious Spider-Man off the bridge\u2026 you know the one\u2026Then going home happy after a good night\u2019s murder, but when he pulls off his mask, he sees Spider-Man\u2019s underneath, and many masks are removed until Peter wakes up from another nightmare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s 2001, the computer has a webcam! Come on, Peter, Randy had the same dream and you\u2019re still not getting it? Norman gloats and recaps as he watches through the camera before going to see Kolina, asleep in a bed. He cries a little about what happened,and a tear lands on her hand and wakes her up. How poetic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But we turn away to Spider-Man, rushing to the Brooklyn Bridge, where Robbie is waiting for Peter. He got a tip that the Green Goblin dumped a body here last night, and they\u2019re here to report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Funny to tie it back to a classic Stern\/Romita joint<\/a>. While Peter\u2019s finally gettin\u2019 wise, we return to the Osborn Estate, where Donald Menken has arrived with Norman\u2019s drugs. Norman tells him Kolina learned his secret, and Menken says she must be dealt with, which makes Norman angry, obviously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Norman gives her a not-exactly-factual rundown of his Goblin origin, with Mendel Stromm as a villain plotting against him and the formula not driving him crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Look at all those Untold Tales references! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kolina manages to slap a patch on Norman\u2019s neck, and tells him if he loves her, he won\u2019t kill Menken. Norman concedes, and has goons take Kolina and Menken to a different safehouse, where Menken is to be taken care of and Kolina protected. Then he recaps to us that it really as Peter in the Goblin suit disposing of Bendix\u2019s body, so complete is the mind control in the toothpaste, which is\u2026 pretty silly. And now the added mind control of the CD is sending Peter even now to a certain address Norman has waiting for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RIP Donald Menken. You died as you lived, kinda skulking around in the shadows. Yeah, man, this whole thing was just setup for the anniversary issues. Which is extremely weird, not least because Roger isn\u2019t working on either one. This mini was not so hot, but I guess that was by design. All exposition. A risky thing to do. But, with it completed, we can finally see a regular issue of a Spider-Man title next post for the first time in this block\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No reason Norman couldn\u2019t have reverted to the classic suit for this. I wish he had. We open on the Green Goblin throwing an unconscious Spider-Man off the bridge\u2026 you know the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864,1],"tags":[659,1970,40,26,1789,39,540,24,117,321,2],"class_list":["post-23207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-menken","tag-george-roderick","tag-green-goblin","tag-joe-robertson","tag-matt-hicks","tag-norman-osborn","tag-pat-oliffe","tag-randy-robertson","tag-roger-stern","tag-ron-frenz","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23207","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=23207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23210,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23207\/revisions\/23210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}