{"id":5102,"date":"2020-06-09T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=5102"},"modified":"2019-07-07T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T16:15:13","slug":"web-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/06\/09\/web-120\/","title":{"rendered":"WEB 120"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ah, the rare triptych comic book cover. We open with a familiar face:
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Not dressing as fancy as he used to. Ben says he heard Tombstone broke out of jail last night, and so he\u2019s got to put him down. Turns out they\u2019re fighting on top of an armored car, and Tomby punches through the roof to knock out the driver and send it careening out of control.
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Tombstone last appeared in a story I haven\u2019t read yet called \u201cThe Death of Tombstone,\u201d so it\u2019s surprising to see him out and about. Not for long, though, because after Ben stops the truck, he uproots a lamppost and knocks Tombstone out with a big swing. As onlookers cheer the Scarlet Spider as a hero and a watching Kaine thinks \u201csoon,\u201d we leave to go check in with Vladimir Kravinoff.
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That footnote felt unnecessary, but ok. Vlad does what he does, swearing to his dead dad to kill Spider-Man and throwing some knives into pictures of Spider-Man to prove he\u2019s cool. Like father, like son. He\u2019s gonna have to settle for off-brand, though. Speaking of whom\u2026
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Would real reporters be acting like this? I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve ever known a reporter. Ben takes down all the lames without issue, as he should, and takes off, Ken Ellis badgering him for info as he does. He assumes Spider-Man is off relaxing with MJ instead of doing all this (Does he not remember the guy being crazed and awful?), while the book switches narrators mid-page to Kaine thinking that as long as Aunt May\u2019s in the hospital\u2026
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(So many big full-figure pages in this issue. And comics in general in this era) Look at this goofus. That’s supposed to be a mask. How does the mouth work? Seems uncomfortable. That sudden 3rd person narration is terrible. Hang on, though, he\u2019s having one of his dumb visions:
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Uh-oh. I guess. Did anyone believe MJ could actually die? The line between the Ben and Peter books continues to blur as we check in with Mary Jane, saying goodbye to her sister and the airport, ready to head home to her terrible husband who refuses to live his life, but she doesn\u2019t seem to see it that way. Gayle says MJ is so happy she\u2019s glowing, and then we go back to New York.
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So lame. The Grim Hunter has tracked Ben\u2019s scent to the aircraft carrier from earlier, and kills a bunch of soldiers there for no reason before continuing on, thinking he\u2019s hunting Spider-Man. But the guy he\u2019s actually after is busy.
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Ben is constantly internal monologuing about how he doesn\u2019t want to interfere in Peter\u2019s life. Step 1 in not interfering with Peter\u2019s life: Try to put the moves on his first girlfriend? Um\u2026 what\u2019s step 2? Love Kavanagh\u2019s little \u201cY\u2019all remember Archer Bryce? Anybody want to see more of him? No? Ok\u2026\u201d Anyway, Grim Hunter shows up at Betty\u2019s, but Ben\u2019s already gone, so he takes off. For his part, Ben swings away thinking that, because of that romantic tension with the real Peter\u2019s old flame which could never lead to anything, \u201cIt\u2019s good to be alive again.\u201d But Vlad\u2019s right on his tail, so maybe not for long. A lot of balls in the air in this book right now. We\u2019ll see how that develops in a bit. First, it\u2019s back to The Amazing Spider-Mope and his death sentence.
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The flipbook mentioned on the cover is an excerpt from a Spider-Man prose novel. Something to do with Morbius. I dunno, not going to bother reading it.
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