{"id":25146,"date":"2025-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=25146"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:39:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:39:51","slug":"tangled-web-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/02\/15\/tangled-web-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangled Web 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ted McKeever! What a delight after the suffering of the last 2 issues. We last saw Ted doing his thing in Ultimate Spider-Man Team-Up, and this time he writes as well as draws. I don\u2019t know whose idea it was for him to work on Typeface, but that is an inspired choice. With McKeever\u2019s penchant for really weird and offbeat characters, there\u2019s no better choice. Who would\u2019ve guessed anyone would see Typey again after PPSM 24, but believe it or not, he\u2019s in 8 more comics after this one. I believe we\u2019ll be seeing none of them on the blog, tho. As ever, Steve Buccelatto is on colors.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While the grammar guy is not quite thrilled with Typeface\u2019s choice of verbiage, he has heard of him, and is thrilled to meet him. Typey, for his part, doesn\u2019t really want to know the guy, and scampers off. The grammar guy decides this is a call to action for him. Soon, he is in Tess\u2019s Surplus, talking to himself nonstop as he tries to come up with a superhero costume and name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Only McKeever could look at Typeface and go, \u201cEh, I can do quirkier.\u201d So wacky. It is, after all, Ted McKeever\u2019s Mondo which gave the world this set of panels, widely distributed on the internet without explanation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cannot recommend Mondo enough. A guy gets superpowers from a chicken plant with extremely lax safety and sanitation, and that\u2019s not nearly as weird as it gets. We next find Typeface once again accosting the Penny Ante Gang, just after they wonder who that guy who attacked them was (\u201cSesame Street Pete?\u201d), but then Spellcheck hops in, telling Typeface they can become a team and rid the world of malapropisms.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That little kid then spots Spidey-Man leaping above them, but it\u2019s actually Spellcheck, who crashes into a telephone pole and slides down to street level in Looney Tunes fashion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But Spellcheck once again gets in Typeface\u2019s way, letting the bad guy escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That was way more fun than the last few. And look, Spider-Man! With dialogue, even! He\u2019s been such a minimal presence in this title it\u2019s started to feel outside the mandate of the blog, but here he briefly is. Maybe he\u2019ll get more face time next issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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