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cyberghostface ([info]cyberghostface) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-14 18:51:00

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Entry tags:char: dr. octopus/otto octavius, char: electro/max dillon, char: j. jonah jameson jr., char: kraven/sergei kravinoff, char: mary jane watson, char: sandman/flint marko/william baker, char: spider-man/peter parker, creator: kaare andrews, title: spider-man: reign

Spider-Man: Reign #3


So right off the bat, this issue definitely got hurt the worse so far in my abridging of it. Lots of important stuff happens, and I did my best to cram everything major in, but I wasn't entirely successful. In addition, this issue's subplot of the unnamed girl who Jonah recruits is pretty much gone as a result. So...if you like this, you should definitely check out the full series. If you don't like the series, I guess it doesn't make much of a difference either way.

The issue opens from where last one ended--with Doctor Octopus apparently returning and rescuing Peter from the "Sinner Six" and taking him to Mary-Jane's grave, which is next to the graves of Aunt May and Uncle Ben. "I couldn't save any of you. Never had the power. Never could handle the responsibility."

Jonah has been taken in to see Mayor Waters and his assistant Saks. Waters wants to know why Jonah has returned all of a sudden. "Some last kick at the can before you're dead?" Jonah says that he owes the city, to which Waters responds that he is the voice of the city. 

"Then I owe this city nothing more than to cut its throat." Jonah says. Water comes at him with a knife and says that it's an excellent idea.



"There you are." says Jonah.











Peter goes on like this for a page or so. "And those precious last moments. I didn't even share them with you."



Jonah asks Waters (who's having his neck bandaged) what he did to make the deal with Saks--what did Sak promise him? Waters telling him that he's doing what's best for everybody, and someone has to be responsible for the city. "You will be responsible." Jonah says.





Outside the building, the newscasters are reporting on the Webb when the top of the building explodes, and what looks like bodies are falling from the top of the building. The "bodies" turn out to be black symbiotic monsters that start to attack the city. The unnamed girl (from the first two issues) runs to the abandoned church that Jonah and the kids were hiding out in earlier. It's all very chaotic and hard to put in words, but that's the general gist.

Meanwhile, Peter starts walking to the coffin. This is the night everything ends, he thinks. "I'm going back to where I belong. His life for mine. All your lives for mine..."



The symbiotes swarm and envelop the unnamed girl's friends. She thinks about running, but remembers Jameson telling her that the bells would protect them and begins hitting the bell with a pipe, causing the symbiotes to disperse. 

"We can't rely on them anymore. The old men. They can't show us how to live. They took our city and made it a cage." She tells her friends that it's time stop running and hiding do something. One of the kids worries that in doing so, their families will be put in danger. To which the girl responds...





Inside the coffin, Peter's ready to just rest until he dies when he hears the bells too.







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[info]jlroberson
2009-10-15 12:23 am UTC (link)
In regards to everything: EW.

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[info]cyberghostface
2009-10-15 12:42 am UTC (link)
Simple yet succinct.

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[info]manofbats
2009-10-15 12:39 am UTC (link)
The art is ew and am I to understand that Peter killed MJ with his radioactive penis?

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[info]cyberghostface
2009-10-15 12:40 am UTC (link)
No, the Green Goblin tossed her off a bridge.

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[info]manofbats
2009-10-15 12:42 am UTC (link)
Then what's with all the hullabaloo with cancer and his radioactive body fluids?

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[info]cyberghostface
2009-10-15 12:57 am UTC (link)
I was being snarky.

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[info]sailorlibra
2009-10-15 12:44 am UTC (link)
And his radioactive kisses, I presume. Semen isn't the only fluid in the world, you know.

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[info]manofbats
2009-10-15 12:49 am UTC (link)
The writer should have said "kisses" and left it at that instead of having Peter drag it on and bring up his fluids.

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[info]cyberghostface
2009-10-15 01:04 am UTC (link)
It's presumably a combination.

But really--and this isn't directed at anyone specific as everyone says the same thing--what bothers me is that Kaare Andrews really respects Peter's relationship with MJ and the Spider-Marriage and all people seem to be able to grasp onto is the concept of "spider-spunk" and nothing else.

It'd be one thing if Joe Quesada used this to get rid of MJ in the regular universe or if this was played for laughs, but that's clearly not the case.

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but ew, cooties!
[info]kelseyg
2009-10-15 01:31 am UTC (link)
This, seriously.

I mean, they're married. They have sex. Are people honestly grossed out by an allusion to semen? They exchange a whole host of "bodily fluids." That's what happens when you're intimate with someone, folks.

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Re: but ew, cooties!
[info]cyberghostface
2009-10-15 01:52 am UTC (link)
Thank you.

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Re: but ew, cooties!
[info]halloweenjack
2009-10-15 04:43 pm UTC (link)
Thanks, but I've been married, and without going into unnecessary detail, there's one particular fluid that is most likely to be exchanged and retained by the female member of a male-female partnership, and it ain't saliva.

Which is all really beside the point, as this premise sort of depends on some of the smartest people in the Marvel Universe being either massively stupid or unable to deal with basic birds and bees conversations on any level. The Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Spider-Man, and Daredevil all got their powers after being exposed to radiation, and of those, Sue Richards miscarried her second pregnancy (after Franklin, before Valeria) and Betty Ross died (although that may been as a result of her being deliberately poisoned by Abomination?). Also, Peter himself has had numerous side-effects as a result of his mutation and other factors, including (at one point) sprouting two additional pairs of arms.

So, in all that time, Reed Richards, Bruce Banner, Henry Pym, Henry McCoy, Curt Connors, and other assorted scientist types, never, not once, thought to run a Geiger counter, that cutting-edge technology of 1908, over Peter (and everyone else who has either gotten their powers by radiation, been exposed to a radiation source, or fought with the likes of the Radioactive Man, which is to say, just about everyone who has ever put on a spandex costume)? Or, in the case of Richards et al., just having them built into their labs as a matter of course? Really?

There's suspension of disbelief, and then there's saying that, well, I haven't actually seen anyone running a Geiger counter over Peter, so hey, plot device. Not buying it for a second.

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Re: but ew, cooties!
[info]halloweenjack
2009-10-15 04:45 pm UTC (link)
I didn't really go into the "birds and bees" thing, but my point there was that, after their own experiences, Richards and Banner, at the very least, might take Peter aside and sort of mention that, given their own... difficulties in this area, he might want to double-check that he's not giving MJ (or whomever he might be going out with, depending on the point in continuity) the spider-cooties.

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Re: but ew, cooties!
[info]cyberghostface
2009-10-15 07:22 pm UTC (link)
I think the general consensus of the people bothered by the "spider-spunk" subplot (from what I've seen) aren't so much bothered that Peter didn't decide to use a Geiger counter before having sex with Mary-Jane but just the squick factor of his bodily fluids giving her cancer over a period of time.

I don't think Peter has ever used a Geiger counter in any continuity before having sex. He already got MJ pregnant before and never thought to use it then. And I doubt he used it when he had drunk blackout sex with Michelle either or sex with Felicia either.

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Re: but ew, cooties!
[info]halloweenjack
2009-10-15 07:59 pm UTC (link)
It wouldn't even have had to have been specifically when Peter and MJ began bumping uglies. Could have been before, could have been after. Could have been Peter just worried about his own health--I could swear that the "radioactive blood" (cited in the lyrics to the original cartoon series) was brought up as a plot device during the Romita Sr. years. I'm suggesting that, logically, at some point, Peter either would have brought it up in a conversation with Reed Richards or someone else would have brought it up with him--if not Richards (because he's a huge nerd) or Johnny Storm (because he's Johnny Storm) then Ben Grimm, especially since Ben would have his own radiation-created problems with sex (but we don't need to talk about Alicia and the rock-polisher right now).

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[info]darkknightjrk
2009-10-15 03:24 am UTC (link)
YES. I mean, I can get why "spider-spunk" might be fun to snark about, but it's definately clear that the creator has a lot of respect for the Pete/MJ relationship.

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[info]chains_of_irony
2009-10-15 08:10 am UTC (link)
Totally agree with you. On all of that.

This is a great series.

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[info]ex_menagerie993
2009-10-15 03:09 pm UTC (link)
So much bloody motto here.

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[info]janegray
2009-10-15 06:25 pm UTC (link)
what bothers me is that Kaare Andrews really respects Peter's relationship with MJ and the Spider-Marriage and all people seem to be able to grasp onto is the concept of "spider-spunk" and nothing else.

Motto. I found the Spidey/MJ scenes extremely moving. You really get the feeling that they love each other from the very bottom of their hearts.

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[info]zordboy
2009-10-15 01:10 am UTC (link)
So he sneezed on her to death, instead? That's a little better, I guess.

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[info]jlroberson
2009-10-15 02:22 am UTC (link)
With his radioactive semen. A nod, no doubt, to a line about Superman from the Sugarhill Gang.

"well i was comin home late one dark afternoon
a reporter stopped me for a interview
she said she's heard stories and she's heard fables
that i'm vicious on the mike and the turntables
this young reporter i did adore
so i rocked a vicious rhyme like i never did before
she said damn fly guy im in love with you
the casanova legend must have been true
i said by the way baby what's your name
said i go by the name of lois lane
and you could be my boyfiend you surely can
just let me quit my boyfriend called superman
i said he's a fairy i do suppoose
flyin through the air in pantyhose
he may be very sexy or even cute
but he looks like a sucker in a blue and red suit
i said you need a man who's got finesse
and his whole name across his chest
he may be able to fly all through the night
but can he rock a party til the early light
he cant satisfy you with his little worm
but i can bust you out with my super sperm"
(RAPPER'S DELIGHT)

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[info]filkertom
2009-10-15 01:35 am UTC (link)
Is it terribly wrong of me to hope that those repeated "dong"s on the last page herald the approach of Dr. Bong, here to bitch-slap some sense into these characters / this title / the Marvel editorial staff?

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[info]blake_reitz
2009-10-15 02:08 am UTC (link)
I know everyone focuses on the squick in this issue, but I really dig the take on Doc Ock. I think it's creepy and totally fits.

Man, what is up with Venom's head?!

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[info]cyberghostface
2009-10-15 02:09 am UTC (link)
Man, what is up with Venom's head?!

It looks normal next issue.

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[info]blake_reitz
2009-10-15 02:13 am UTC (link)
That's even weirder!

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[info]interrobamf
2009-10-15 03:21 am UTC (link)
He's possessing the Juggernaut.

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[info]ravenous_raven
2009-10-15 03:59 am UTC (link)
No, he ATE the Juggernaut o_0

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[info]khamelea
2009-10-15 05:37 am UTC (link)
Someone asked Antoine de Saint Exupéry to draw Juggernaut.

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[info]stranger_dan
2009-10-15 02:43 pm UTC (link)
He bonded with an M&M.

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[info]retro_nouveau
2009-10-15 03:07 am UTC (link)
Wouldn't having radioactive spider-fluids introduced to your system just make you strong, sticky and sixth-sensitive?

Otherwise ... EW.

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[info]ravenous_raven
2009-10-15 04:01 am UTC (link)
...why hasn't MJ deteriorated at all?

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[info]cyberghostface
2009-10-15 04:41 am UTC (link)
She has. Her face is pretty much skeletal at this point. A page that I cut out made it more obvious, but you can still see it a little on the ones there.

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[info]ravenous_raven
2009-10-15 05:02 am UTC (link)
ah, I see it now. I was focusing on the flashback-version of her face. thanks for clearing that up!

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[info]nowhere_girl16
2009-10-15 04:35 am UTC (link)
radioactive penis death=fail

pink Mohawk guy saying "whoa,that's like totally illegal."=LMAO Win

venom on roids with a phallic shaped head/shoulder thing with DONG DONG written behind him=LMFAO Win.

Yes i know i have the maturity level of a 12 yr. old. and i also know these things shouldn't make me LOL....srry.

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[info]joysweeper
2009-10-15 11:28 am UTC (link)
I like the Cement Girl subplot. Saw it once, didn't see the rest before.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-10-15 04:42 pm UTC (link)
Is that and running down the page as the girl's talking about using masks? Such sweet foreshadowing. This book is just full of squee and heartbreak. I bought the trade because of the posts on 1.0, so it's good to see it come back here.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-10-15 05:05 pm UTC (link)
*Is that sand :(

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[info]cyberghostface
2009-10-15 07:03 pm UTC (link)
I think that's just the quality of the scan. :D

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-10-16 01:59 am UTC (link)
Man, I was afraid that might've been the case, and looking back at my hard-copy, it is. Shame, since it would've been so perfect if it was!

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[info]janegray
2009-10-15 06:40 pm UTC (link)
Just one question: does the little girl die?

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[info]cyberghostface
2009-10-15 07:06 pm UTC (link)
Check your inbox.

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[info]janegray
2009-10-15 07:16 pm UTC (link)
Thanks. I'm not sure if you received my reply, it seems like IJ doesn't have a "sent messages" page.

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