{"id":25094,"date":"2025-02-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=25094"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:39:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:39:52","slug":"tangled-web-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/02\/11\/tangled-web-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangled Web 14"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This issue\u2019s cover is by Dave Johnson. Inside, we find a story by Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso\u2019s 100 Bullets collaborator, and Scott Levy, who I don\u2019t actually know. The illustrator is Giuseppe Camuncoli, who I had forgotten was working in the business this early, but who will be doing quite a bit of Spider-Man eventually. Buccelatto hangs in there on colors. We\u2019re here for a sort of Crusher Hogan: Year One.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not exactly the lovable doof of ASM 271<\/a>. Crusher\u2019s internal monologue goes on about respecting the sport and whatnot, and then he goes to see the bossman, who says there weren\u2019t enough fans in attendance, and he can\u2019t make payroll. He tells Crusher he should take the deal he was offered from one of the larger companies, but Crusher again refuses, loyal to a fault, it would seem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joey, as it turns out his name is, goes home and has an argument with his wife about working for free. She says she\u2019ll call Global herself, and he gets very mad and throws a glass at a wall. Fun times in the Hogan house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don\u2019t really know what\u2019s going on. As a lifetime avowed non-wrestling fan, I\u2019m barely paying attention. Hogan has apparently riled up all the fans to the point that they\u2019re lining up for tickets to next week\u2019s show, but Hogan and the bossman say not to sell any with a knowing glint in their eyes. I don\u2019t know. We\u2019re told everyone goes along with the gimmick, and Bobby books them into an arena way bigger than usual. They put posters up all over town, and it\u2019s the cover of this issue. So he\u2019s made the fans mad and is going to wrestle them? And then Peter\u2019s going to show up and ruin it? Ok, I guess. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bzzzzt! Hammerhead 100% did not exist at this time, but thanks for playing. Hammerhead was\u2026 whoever he was back then, he had not yet lost his memories, been rebuilt by Jonas Harrow, and become Hammerhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok, whatever. They get their act together, we\u2019re told everyone puts on a good show, and then it\u2019s time for the main event, Crusher Vs. the Fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So\u2026 I guess Hammerhead lost his money? Hogan\u2019s hands were looking pretty un-crushed in ASM 271. And they\u2019re now saying Peter Parker got $10,000 for winning that match? That\u2019s\u2026 a lot, even in 2002! I don\u2019t know about all that. This is another one, like the Kingpin one, where regardless of the craftsmanship\u2026 is it really worth the money? Did anyone really wanna pay $3 to see the secret origin of Crusher Hogan? I\u2019m not exactly shocked I didn\u2019t remember this one. They say anthologies are a hardsell in comics, but I would say an issue like this isn\u2019t helping. Again, not because of the quality of the writing or art, but because of the subject matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This issue\u2019s cover is by Dave Johnson. Inside, we find a story by Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso\u2019s 100 Bullets collaborator, and Scott Levy, who I don\u2019t actually know. The illustrator is Giuseppe…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864,1],"tags":[2060,1063,2062,81,2061,2,2050,994,2046],"class_list":["post-25094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-uncategorized","tag-brian-azzarello","tag-crusher-hogan","tag-giuseppe-camuncoli","tag-hammerhead","tag-scott-levy","tag-spider-man","tag-steve-bucelatto","tag-steve-bucellato","tag-tangled-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25094","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=25094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25095,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25094\/revisions\/25095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}