{"id":9786,"date":"2021-07-19T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=9786"},"modified":"2020-06-23T16:48:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T20:48:59","slug":"lost-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/07\/19\/lost-years-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Years 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Only a few years prior to this, JR illustrated Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, a 5-issue series where Frank Miller explored DD\u2019s earliest origins. It\u2019s where the black suit he wore on the Netflix show was first created. Ben\u2019s outfit here feels a lot like that. Kaine, meanwhile, is wearing the coat Peter wore in The Official Marvel Try-Out Book. The frequency with which Romita, Jr. draws this coat is really starting to amuse me now that I\u2019ve seen it. So, inside, Jacob Raven is still at the mercy of those goons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A lot of colorists struggled with the seismic shift in their industry that is digital color, but Christie Scheele adapted quickly. This series looks really nice, especially for 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean, this may not be up to the standard we expect today, but she\u2019s light years ahead of the monthlies. Also: Romita drawing people in the rain. Can\u2019t beat it. In a dynamic 2-page spread, Ben flips over the car, smashes through the back window and yanks out Raven, and when the goons stop the car and get out, he flips it over, causing them to all flee on foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ben sits on a nearby roof watching, thinking about how using his powers is so hard to avoid, and then takes off. He was watched by Kaine, of course, because watching people from the shadows is Kaine\u2019s whole thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Complicated. All this is so much easier to read than DeMatteis\u2019 Spider-Man. He\u2019s not doing dumb things to characters I like, or wontonly killing them for a brief moment of pathos, or forcing them to act wildly out of character to serve his story. I don\u2019t know these characters. They are what he says they are. There\u2019s no history to conflict with. After suffering through Peter belting MJ and deciding The Jackal was his friend and all that, this is a relief. It\u2019s dark and tuff and all his other tics, but that\u2019s all fine here, because this isn\u2019t Spider-Man. This is a story that isn\u2019t blatantly stupid, with lovely art. How novel in 1995. Anyway, in prison, that Tannen guy is upset to hear only Raven\u2019s wife was killed, and tells the puzzled guard he\u2019s paid off that he\u2019ll take care of it himself. Then we cut to Raven with Louise in a church. Raven is having a real crisis of faith over the horrors he\u2019s been through, understandably. Meanwhile, Ben has started his first day as a teacher\u2019s assistant, and the professor he\u2019s working for is very impressed with his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But while Ben is romancin\u2019 this MJ-stand-in, at night he\u2019s terrorizing Tannen\u2019s mob, attacking their safehouses all over town, not sure if it\u2019s a sense of responsibility or the thrill of his powers (A frequent question in Conway\u2019s 70s stories). And also meanwhile, Kaine has been developing an actual relationship with Louise, and feels happy for the first time in his life. And then someone kidnaps Raven\u2019s kid out of the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Parker has brown eyes, by the way, yet Ben & Kaine have blue eyes here. Kaine has a worse spasm of pain than he\u2019s ever and, and those weird veins or whatever they are he has in the present begin to manifest on his arm, causing him to flee Louise\u2019s place. Ben is smashing up another of Tannen\u2019s warehouses with too much force due to his sadness when a much more monstrous Kaine shows up, wanting to take out his suffering on his favorite target, and they begin rampaging through the warehouse in a way that has nothing to do with the goons inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s all headed for disaster next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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