{"id":26063,"date":"2025-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=26063"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:39:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:39:33","slug":"negative-exposure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/04\/07\/negative-exposure-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative Exposure 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Between having vague, not-fond memories of this book and knowing what I\u2019m reading next, I really just wanna get through it. Even if it\u2019s perfectly fine, it\u2019s pretty unnecessary. Yet another Spidey\/Doc Ock confrontation awkwardly inserted into a history full of them, and narrated by Some Random Guy, even. I think setting it in the present would\u2019ve made me at least more interested, but then, how many times can  Doc Ock and Spider-Man fight in the same year? This one opens with Doc Ock giving a little dissertation on how humans are like hydrogen atoms, making it clear he feels above humans, as that guy from last issue brings him Jeffery Haight\u2019s photography book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Right-o! Meanwhile, ol\u2019 Jeffrey is spying on Peter Parker, who he identifies as \u201cteenage,\u201d so it\u2019s for sure, like, 1970 at the latest, timeline-wise. He is interrupted by the cop lady he\u2019s dating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s funny that the Vulture would be that predictable, but let\u2019s be honest, the Vulture would absolutely be that predictable. Haight runs off to get his scoop, and Peter hears the news of a winged thief on a radio and makes a lame excuse to MJ to run off, too. He doesn\u2019t even say he has to go get photos, he uses Aunt May. Think faster next time, Pete-O. Haight makes it to the scene, where he\u2019s not allowed in by the cops because Vultch has taken a hostage. So, he sneaks off somewheres and bribes someone to let him onto their fire escape. Meanwhile, Spider-Man arrives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man, poor Staz Johnson put all that work into trying to do a classic \u201cSpidey-in-motion\u201d panel and then Avalon Studios blurred it to oblivion. Really glad that sort of thing eventually becomes less common, blur is the enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ye Olde Spider-Man webbed to Vulture\u2019s ankle sequence. Spider-Man webs Vulture\u2019s wings together behind him and then hops on his back, riding him to the ground like he\u2019s the bomb in Dr. Strangelove, while forming a web parachute to save them from the fall. Haight gets all this, but doesn\u2019t notice Peter\u2019s camera webbed literally directly over his head on the same fire escape, which is just too much for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So ol\u2019 Jeff goes out to the prison, where the warden, whose last name is Warden, lets him in to see Doc Ock, who had to be taken out of gen pop after rigging a walkman to electrocute someone who made a comment about his mom. When Haight arrives at Ock\u2019s cell, Ock has papered the wall behind him with Haight\u2019s photos, and says it\u2019s an honor to meet him, playing him like a fiddle (Is that a good expression? My impression of the fiddle is it seems kind of hard to play, does that even make sense?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ock somehow sensing Haight would have a vendetta against Peter Parker is pretty dopey, and how that will help him is hard to imagine, but who knows what\u2019ll happen in the remaining 3 issues?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between having vague, not-fond memories of this book and knowing what I\u2019m reading next, I really just wanna get through it. Even if it\u2019s perfectly fine, it\u2019s pretty unnecessary. Yet another Spidey\/Doc…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864,1],"tags":[2033,2096,2026,25,26,2095,2,1986,98],"class_list":["post-26063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-uncategorized","tag-avalon-studios","tag-brian-k-vaughan","tag-danny-miki","tag-doctor-octopus","tag-joe-robertson","tag-negative-exposure","tag-spider-man","tag-staz-johnson","tag-vulture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26063","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=26063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26074,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26063\/revisions\/26074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}