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The economy is so bad Stratos had to take up crop dusting.
Masters Of The Universe vol. 2 #3
Image Comics/MV Creations (May, 2003)
WRITER: Val Staples
ARTISTS: Emiliano Santalucia & Enza Fontana
COLORIST: Kevin Senft (assisted by Shaynne Corbett)
SELECTED COVER ART: Emiliano Santalucia & Val Staples
LETTERING: Dreamer Design
EDITORS: Heather Schneider, Jeremy Padower, Ian Richter, & Geoff Walker
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Well, we had two Spider-Man comics today, so I might as well keep the webs spinning.
{image source: “Spidey Kicks Butt”}
While there were a number of Spider-Fans who didn’t like the Spider-Marriage there were also a number of them that did, including myself. But even those on the anti-marriage (for Spider-Man, not necessarily marriage in general) side hated One More Day, the storyline in which Mephisto wipes the marriage completely out of continuity. Sure there’ the comic strip, but Spidey really doesn’t come off looking the best there, often deferring to whatever Marvel hero has a movie coming out and just not coming off as a seasoned hero. It’s okay, but it’s still not what the pro-marriage fans wanted.
During the recent Secret Wars (that they should have just called Secret Wars 3 to avoid the confusion) alternate continuities were formed into a new version of Battleworld, and in one of them Peter and Mary Jane were not only still married but had Annie, the daughter shown in Mephisto’s “pitch” to Peter that would never be. (May Parker, the first comics Spider-Girl, is in a different continuity and I guess they didn’t want to suggest that M2 would become the main Marvel Universe at some point.) From what I’ve heard, this version of Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, wasn’t really what the pro side would have wanted as it was kind of like “see, this is what a Spider-Marriage would look like; isn’t it terrible?” deal. Not really a surprise since Dan Slott is part of the anti-marriage Spider-Writers. However the miniseries seemed to do well enough to give it a full run, with Gerry Conway (who actually thought of Spider-Man when he co-created Firestorm for DC) on writing duties. Is it possible that he knows how to do this? Douglas Ernst of the Douglas Ernst blog thinks so.
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“Next time I’m choosing the Renaissance Fair instead!”
The Adventures Of Spider-Man #9
Marvel (December, 1996)
“Where Demons Ride!”
WRITER: Nel Yomtov
PENCILER: Alex Saviuk
INKER: Rob Stull
COLORIST: Kevin Tinsley
LETTERER: Steve Dutro
EDITOR: Mark Bernardo
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Yes, let’s reveal the surprise costume for Ben Reilly RIGHT ON THE COVER SO IT ISN’T A SURPRISE! Idiots!
Web Of Spider-Man #118
Marvel (November, 2001)
“The Exile Returns” part one: “Memories”
WRITER: Terry Kavanagh
PENCILER: Steven Butler
INKER: Randy Emberlin
COLORIST: Eric Fein
LETTERER: Steve Dutro
EDITOR: Eric Fein
GROUP EDITOR: Danny Fingeroth
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Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
In our last get together our heroes tried to sneak their way onto Coruscant to rescue Leia from Xizor, not realizing it’s part of Xizor’s trap (minus the rape hormones–that’s his fun time). How will the trap be sprung and how will it backfire? We still have to get the gang onto the planet. They’re using a robot freighter (that just so happens to be in the area and owned by Xizor’s legit operations) to sneak onto the planet. Will they succeed?
