Comments Off | Posted: March 27th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Here’s a weird opening page from Amazing Spider Man #155, which has very little to do with the rest of the story. There’s no internal narration from Spider-Man, which the Giant Floating Disembodied Head seems to indicate we’re going to get, instead it’s just a standard-issue, thought balloons, real-time sort of affair.

Nice splash, though – I wish Len Wein could have followed up on the promise shown. What this story lacks in, you know, creativity and non-sucking, it makes up for with yet another Mighty Marvel Minority Character written to conform exactingly to stereotype. I give you Leroy Tallon, who would have been played by Avery Brooks if Cameron had made his Spider-Man flick in the 80s:
Man, I love and hate these early Bronze-era Spidey stories. They’re fairly awful, but manage to be completely serviceable if you want to watch Spider-Man punch some dudes instead of seeing him find out that Gwen made the two-backed beast with Norman Osborne or that he’s part of some kind Spider-totem thing I never understood.

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