{"id":25092,"date":"2025-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=25092"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:39:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:39:52","slug":"tangled-web-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/02\/10\/tangled-web-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangled Web 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ron Zimmerman is back, last seen in that awful Jay Leno thing. Sean Philips is back, last seen in Ultimate Spider-Man Super Special, tho I think this came out first, just to be as confusing as possible. Steve Bucellatto is back, last seen coloring most of this series. This one\u2019s called Double Shots, and begins with a guy in the comic book cliche hat & trenchcoat disguise headed to a bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stilt-Man is insinuating that Daredevil is gay, and when the Matador says, in a riiiiiiidiculous Spanish accent, that he doesn\u2019t think so, Stilty says he might be, too. This leads them to almost fight until the bartender tells them they won\u2019t be doing that in here. Whirlwind helpfully exposits to no one in particular that the barman, Calab, was \u201cDr. Doom\u2019s head of security for 12 years\u201d to let everyone know not to mess with him, which seems utterly absurd, but it\u2019s Zimmerman. Beef quashed, Timber gets the mystery man\u2019s drink as the Vulture comes angrily stalking into the bar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wow, what a totally accurate and not at all out of character voice for Vulture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Baby Kraven was suddenly Zimmerman\u2019s purview in the previously mentioned \u201cGet Kraven\u201d series, no surprise he wound up here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I feel the odds of Kraven and Tombstone having a feud, or even knowing each other, are effectively nil, but again, it\u2019s Zimmerman. And because Alyosha is his guy at present, first he intimidates Tombstone into running away with just a look, and then it\u2019s implied he\u2019s been shtupping the hot waitress. I don\u2019t know if they had the phrase \u201cself-insert character\u201d in 2002, but\u2026 Anyway, Young Kraven goes on to talk about how he also had a bad week due to Spider-Man, aided and abetted by the Human Torch, as Alyosha was fighting some mobsters and they intervened. The Torch says he \u201cnever liked\u201d Baby Kraven, which, again, they actually met and the encounter (In FF, Vol. 3 #9) was so slight I doubt Johnny would even remember it, but Zimmerman. Young Kraven was winning against Johnny when Spider-Man showed up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Losing my patience for this. Also, boy, does that \u201cgetting a big butt\u201d thing fail to predict beauty trends even though they were already well under way. Because Alyosha is Zimmerman\u2019s Mary Sue, he goes on to talk about how he\u2019s gone out with Silver Sable, Black Widow, and, in a random real world pull, Alyssa Milano, to Vulture\u2019s consternation. The mystery man convinces Vulture to detail his Spider-Man run-in. Which is literally the usual, which Zimmerman lampshades, Vulture attacking an armored car, Spider-Man webs onto his ankle, etc. He complains that the worst thing about the superheroes is the jokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They keep bickering for a few pages and who even cares, honestly. But we\u2019re running out of pages, so someone finally bothers to ask who the guy in the hat is. And I remember, for a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Putting the pumpkin on the table just in case you don\u2019t get it is so stupid. Especially since\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Batman The Animated Series episode \u201cAlmost Got \u2018Im\u201d casts a long shadow, and this can\u2019t help but feel like a feeble imitation despite the reveal being Norman instead of the hero. But, since I sold my copy of Sweet Charity and I couldn\u2019t find a book in my collection with part one of the Kraven 2-parter than ran in the backs of books like the Jay Leno thing, this is the last we\u2019ll see of Zimmerman on this blog, so I got that going for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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