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Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman #9
Writer: Peter David
Penciler: Mike Wieringo
Inker: Mike Manley
Colorist: Paul Mounts
Plot:
In the distant future, Spiderman’s daughter is creating
a rift in time and as part of a team created to maintain the
continuum, Spiderman is forced to arrest her and place her
in stasis. Her lover attempts to break her out and
accidentally turns her into the raving maniac, Hobgoblin.
Hobgoblin can bend time and create weapons that can hurt you
in the past, present, or future. She proceeds into the past
to see what kind of damage she can do to the man that locked
her up. While following her through time to try and stop
her, he gets to see how certain events may have affected the
legacy of Spiderman from Peter Parker to himself, including
Uncle Ben’s being saved.
Review: Wha… Huh… I… There is a lot of crap going on
in this issue and for me to just pick up and start reading
it I just kind of went along for the ride. The future
Spiderman looks like Dr Octopus, Mary Jane, and Spiderman
had a three-way and Captain America breast-fed him until he
was five. But never mind that. This issue opens up doorways
into the past and we get to see different views of
Spiderman, some really creepy, and some pretty goofy. This
issue actually could have been strung out into two and
slowed down to give the reader a greater ability to take it
all in, but the frenetic pace makes this a pretty quick page
turner. I keep opening up the book and looking at the future
suit. I can’t stop staring at it. Something about it seems
off-putting, almost repelling. But other than that, this is
a really cool story that probably won’t mean anything in the
long run. The Hobgoblin seems to be super-sized in both
power and absolute craziness. Hopefully, the writers can
build on that to add a little flavor to future issues. The
art really accentuates the changing mood on each of the
pages, and while this comic really moved too fast to take
the time to stop and smell the roses as I was reading it, I
did go back into the book to take a better look at the art,
something I almost never do. I have to say, I really dug
Wieringo’s art.
Special thanks go out to Jeremy Shorr, owner of
Titan Comics for allowing us to use his advance
preview books for review purposes.
