{"id":25033,"date":"2025-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=25033"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:40:23","slug":"tangled-web-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/02\/07\/tangled-web-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangled Web 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When Kendrick Lamar asked, \u201cAre you on 10 yet?\u201d he was probably not asking me if I\u2019d gotten to Tangled Web #10\u2026 but I have. I should let him know. Kaare Andrews. Undeniably a talented artist. A chameleon, and really flexing about it in this period with covers ranging from traditional superhero to cartoon to Norman Rockwell homage all over the Marvel line. You\u2019d think his 60s cartoon Spider-Man would be tighter with that in mind. It can literally only be that off-model on purpose. But, like, look at this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But here\u2019s page 2:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like, the average comic would 100% have 2 different artists making that stylistic switch, but Andrews just does it himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But for whatever reason, when he writes Spider-Man things, he tends to make them super dark. He\u2019s not my guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s a real uncanny valley to this book. It looks so real, and so clearly unreal. The kids have a sad fight about whether heroes exist, the jaded older brother out for blood and trying to crush the younger one\u2019s spirit, and then something blows a hole in the wall. And when the smoke clears, there\u2019s something pretty unusual in the rubble\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The gimmick here is he\u2019s obscuring the superpeople. I guess\u2026 because he\u2019s focusing on the \u201creal world\u201d consequences? I dunno, man, a full page splash of Electro cropping out his head just feels like a waste of your time. The wee kid gets between Electro and his prey, and Electro starts scaring him, forcing his brother to step out in front of him. Electro starts belittling him and slowly inching a finger closer to his forehead. Also, Andrews putting his signature at the bottom of every single page is getting so, so annoying. WE GET IT, YOU\u2019RE VERY SPECIAL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Electro is defeated, and Spider-Man asks the kids if they\u2019re ok. Even with him directly interacting with them, he\u2019s as obscured as possible. He asks if their mom and dad are ok, and when they say they don\u2019t have a dad, they\u2019re surprised when he says he can relate. Looking around, the Obscure Spider-Man takes an envelope labeled \u201cRENT\u201d out of his sock and gives it to them, apologizing for the mess. He also webs the little kid\u2019s toy back together like it won\u2019t dissolve in an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve commented on it before, but I will always be fascinated by how creators who do it all don\u2019t letter. Lettering is such a different discipline, and we all seem to hate it. So, here Andrews writes and paints the entire issue, but he ain\u2019t lettering it. Really beating you over the head with the message in the end. Could be worse. Could be Andrews\u2019 Spider-Man: Reign, his embarrassing Dark Knight Returns knock off which I do not own and will not be covering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Kendrick Lamar asked, \u201cAre you on 10 yet?\u201d he was probably not asking me if I\u2019d gotten to Tangled Web #10\u2026 but I have. I should let him know. Kaare Andrews….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864,1],"tags":[2056,2,2050,2046],"class_list":["post-25033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-uncategorized","tag-kaare-andrews","tag-spider-man","tag-steve-bucelatto","tag-tangled-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25033","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=25033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25036,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25033\/revisions\/25036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}