{"id":24610,"date":"2025-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=24610"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:40:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:40:38","slug":"ppsm-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/01\/16\/ppsm-51\/","title":{"rendered":"PPSM 51"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What\u2019s worse than a book drawn by Humberto Ramos? Why, a book drawn by dedicated Humberto Ramos impersonator Francisco Herrera. I have to assume they knew each other. This guy showed up just after Ramos started working for Marvel, drawing very much like him, for Marvel. And he\u2019s drawing here for Zeb Wells, who will mostly see this title out, and who sure didn\u2019t impress a few issues back. I have to imagine it won\u2019t be so bad when it\u2019s not a protracted skewering of outdated pop culture references, but in truth, I don\u2019t remember anything after #50 at all. At all. I\u2019m thinking I didn\u2019t buy any of these when they came out, but I can\u2019t seem to find any evidence of buying them more recently, either. I\u2019m fairly certain I bailed with Jenkins\/Buckingham, especially when the next issue looked like this. I dunno. Wayne Faucher and Studio F hang in there rounding out the art team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Parker, the Spectacularly Ugly Spider-Man!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Everything this guy does that isn\u2019t just jacking Ramos\u2019 whole deal is actively worse. Which tends to be the case with these impersonator types. Your Nick Bradshaws, your RB Silvas. Take away the beloved artist they\u2019ve made a career of stealing from and there\u2019s not much left to like. Sometimes you get an impersonator who blossoms into a beautiful flower. Barry Windsor-Smith hit the scene ripping off Jack Kirby. Bill Sienkiewicz started out shamelessly copying Neal Adams. Travis Charest was a Jim Lee clone. They all went on to be some of comics\u2019 finest artists. Usually, tho, when you start with stealing, there\u2019s nowhere to go but down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Herrera has some real weird ideas about hands. Speaking of Stilt-Man, he\u2019s on a rampage, shouting about Daredevil, but he gets Spider-Man instead, who handily defeats him in 2 pages. Exactly how he does it, I\u2019m genuinely not sure, the storytelling is atrocious. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok, he webbed a lamppost\u2026 what did that do? Stilt-Man should be about to just\u2026 stand up out of this. Meanwhile, Shocker & Hydro-Man both clock in at Hammer Industries, like in the Looney Tunes with the sheep dog and the wolf. Shocky gets suited up and outfitted with an experimental new shocker, and Hydro-Man\u2019s powers are being tested for better application in the future. A 9-to-5 supervillain gig. Spider-Man has, for some reason, stuck around to get Stilt-Man out of his armor for the cops? What? And they\u2019re mad at him for it, and so are motorists stuck in traffic, and he just leaves. Ok, fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Worst hands in the business. As they clean out their lockers, Shocky bemoans how he used to be better than this, that he would\u2019ve wrecked that guy 10 years ago, Hydro-Man is more zen about it. Then they see Constrictor beating the crap out of the guy who fired them, and Shocker says \u201cThat used to be me.\u201d Later that night, poor Aunt May can\u2019t avoid being drawn even worse than Ramos did, as Peter rehashes a tired old cliche\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hideous. Shocker & Hydro-Man are at Denny\u2019s, talking about what to do next. Shocky is still down in the dumps. Speaking of cliches, he starts talking about one last score. Hydro-Man drops the interesting idea that he doesn\u2019t think he\u2019s aged a day since Spider-Man turned him into a waterguy, but is otherwise a little too dumb to get excited about Shocker\u2019s aspirations. He mostly just wants to kill Spider-Man. Then the waitress who\u2019s been bothering them pushes Hydro-Man one time too many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If an actual professional was drawing this, it would be fine. Huge improvement over Wells\u2019 first outing. But he\u2019s stuck with this eye-bleeding art. Not fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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