Marvel Comics
Softcover Trade Paperback
128 pages
$14.95
ISBN 9780785108740
Contributors: Bruce Jones, Lee Weeks, Kaare Andrews, and Darwyn Cooke
Reprints: Spider-Man's Tangled Web #7-11
Synopsis: Three different stories featuring three different creative teams:
- "Gentleman's Agreement" - A hack in NYC gets some bad news - cancer, the terminal kind. He stumbles onto a secret that could save his life - Spider-Man's secret identity. Will he betray the trust of a hero to save himself?
- "Ray of Light" - Two boys idolize Spider-Man, but one of his battles spills into their home and threatens their lives
- "Open All Night" - Spider-Man battles the Vulture on Valentine's Day, but this battle is nothing compared to Peter Parker's dilemma - he's double-booked with two lovely ladies! The Parker luck strikes again!
Cons: Andrews' art attempts to be photo realistic and ends up falling short (too much black background), Cooke's art/story is uber-cartoony, Jones' storyline is somewhat convoluted and hard to follow
Mike Tells It Straight: This second volume of Tangled Web didn't interest me as much as the previous one. The first storyline was decent with a twist ending, but Andrews' one-shot fell flat. His liberal use of pitch black background seems like a convenient way to avoid drawing backgrounds. Cooke's story was lively and entertaining, but his style is a bit too cartoony. Overall this volume is somewhat entertaining, but utterly forgettable.
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