{"id":24938,"date":"2025-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=24938"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:40:23","slug":"tangled-web-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/02\/02\/tangled-web-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangled Web 05"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Peter Milligan is one of those Vertigo guys that Axel Alonso would\u2019ve been able to bring over to Marvel. Not his last work for the company, but maybe the first. Duncan Fegredo is an excellent illustrator who will go on to a noteworthy collaboration with Mike Mignola on key Hellboy material. And they join standing Tangled Web colorist Steve Buccellato for this Rhino story. This month, they smartly moved the title of the comic off that Spidey face. Giving each story a title on the cover looked cool, but it probably made selling the book harder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rhino gets his charge out of there, but then Spider-Man shows up. Hey, remember how Rhino was in issue 1 of this series? That wasn\u2019t so long ago. Anyway, Stella is transferred to a car, and the guy in it tells Rhino not to let Spider-Man follow them. So Rhino starts scrapping with Spider-Man, still mooning over Stella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Holy crap, that\u2019s Mindworm down there! Mindworm! What a different time that was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rhino impales the guy who made fun of him, and then suddenly, he\u2019s in some kind of mad science lab, where a monkey with a thing on his head is conducting a symphony. Rhino says he\u2019s come here because he wants dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I feel like Rhino\u2019s gotten out of the suit before. It\u2019s like the thing with Scorpion last block. People are so used to them being trapped in the suit that they just go back to it, even if they get out. Are these really the guys who Rhino\u2019d him? Wouldn\u2019t that have happened in Russia? Who cares, I guess, is the answer, an increasingly common one. We get a look at Rhino\u2019s everyday life, which is pretty tough, being a superheavy creature who uses a pulley system in bed to make sure he doesn\u2019t roll on his back and lose the ability to get up. Then he goes out to a bar, but he\u2019s not having fun. Until that Romeo guy shows and says the boss wants him to protect Stella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Really, guys?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A crushed Rhino then spends some time plowing through various buildings, but finds even running through walls doesn\u2019t make him happy anymore. He climbs up on a bridge and considers suicide. But then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, yeah, obviously, this is a very odd Flowers For Algernon riff. We\u2019ll see how it wraps next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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