Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Scout Attacks! Spider-Man/Red Sonja #1

So, I wanted to to a post tonight, and it was seriously running the risk of being another whiny "But the Spider-marriage is so wonderful" post. I didn't want to do that. It's coming, I'm sure, because it's all consuming lately. I think I might have to change the name of this blog to Peter & Mary Jane Matter. (I'm just giving Quesada what he wants and I hate myself for it.) I wanted to do something more positive, though. I have an X-Men post that I want to do too, but that's going to require more energy than I generally have, and when I do have that much energy, I have more important things I have to do. Anyway, this is still a Spidey & (sorta) MJ post, but it is one that's made of awesome. This is about the super fun Spider-Man/Red Sonja #1.

Let's start with the cover:
Ah, Michael Turner, your awfulness never fails to entertain. I just want to point out the, uh, pointy-ness of Red Sonja's ears. I almost think that I'm being too hard on his inability to render a realistic human figure when it is so clear that he isn't even trying to draw a human. And in the spirit of being kinder to Michael Turner, why won't somebody write the epic lesbian elf porn that he was so clear born to illustrate? This is actually one of his better covers though, possibly because Sonja's feet are obscured. In the variant cover she is literally standing on the tip of her toes, as if she were a Barbie doll whose feet are permanently molded to high heels. That's a pretty decent Spider-Man he's got going on there though.

The interior's a lot better. First, there's an amusing phone conversation between Spidey and MJ:
First, the nitpicker in me needs to point out that she would never say she is doing MacBeth. She's an actress, and she is in a theater. It's "The Scottish Play." Calling it by it's name is a bigger no-no than wishing someone good luck. Clearly, whatever happens in "One More Day," Mary Jane has brought it on herself by tempting fate like that. But it's Peter's behavior that is more troubling. He likes it when she dresses up like a cat? I'm sure MJ is the fun, adventurous type, but a girls got to draw the line somewhere. If she's dressing up like a cat for him now, next he'll be having her don a blond wig and a miniskirt and directing her to play dead.

Enough about Parker's kinks. Let's get to the wacky, but first, one of the cool things about this issue is that it has more Robbie than possibly JMS's entire run on Amazing Spider-Man. Look:



Two whole panels! And hey, do you think Venom's going to show up at some point?







I've read some complaints this issue was all set up, but I didn't mind, not when that alone is fun to read. If you don't already know, this story is a follow-up to the awesomely cracktastic Marvel Team-Up #79, where a museum exhibit causes a bunch of wacky creatures to pop up in New York and people to get possessed. Naturally, Mary Jane gets possessed by Red Sonja, while some random guard gets possessed by Kulan Gath, the bad guy. Well, all that happens again, except this time the whole city gets transformed, even Spideys cell phone:

Frankly, I think Parker made out pretty good here. Even a small sack of gold has got to be worth more than any cell phone he could afford. Where does Spidey carry his cell phone anyway?

Another cool thing about this issue has got to be the continuity with the earlier story. Kulan Gath is determined not to let Spider-Man and Red Sonja team up and spoil his plans again.












Turning Mary Jane into Red Sonja and pitting her against Spider-Man makes so much more sense than just keeping her away from the sword and thereby leaving Red Sonja out of the equation altogether. Kulan Gath is a genius! You can't argue villain logic though, especially when the final outcome is as awesome as this:

MJ's not even really possessed. She's just pissed. I'm not getting the impression that Peter told her that she's turned into Red Sonja before. Oh, and let's not forget the cat costume thing. As a matter of fact, I think it would be awesome if this was the real lead up to "One More Day." Not that MJ's pissed at Peter about it, but that after turning back into herself, MJ decides that she rather likes carrying around a sword. Imagine how much cooler your average Mary Jane plot point would be with a sword. Sure it was awesome when she beat the crap out of the Chameleon with a baseball bat, but it would have been awesomer if she had chopped off some limbs. And the next time she has a stalker, she could just impale him. Unfortunately, Spider-Man just can't be married to someone who goes around chopping off people's limbs. Mary Jane has to choose, Peter or the sword. Mary Jane chooses the sword, and all Joe Quesada's problems are solved.

Anyway, the series can only get wackier from here. I can't wait.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Glad to see I'm not alone in enjoying this series and... you know... Marvel comics that are actually, FUN.

One point though: as an actor, I know many actors (myself included) who are not cowed by the legends of Macbeth being an unlucky play or saying "Good Luck" before a show.

I too was wondering about Peter's kinks. Not because I don't believe he and MJ don't experiment (It's on record that they've done some bondage play with his webshooters, for crying out-loud!) but that even though I'm sure Peter is refering to MJ coming home in her costume from CATS... I STILL can't believe MJ would go along with such a thing, knowing Peter's past with Felicia.

Then again, if we were going to be realistic, MJ would never have been allowed to leave the theater in her CATS costume anyway. I forget the pricetag on those get-ups but I remember it being in the tens of thousands.

Still... good review. :)

Scout said...

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. Fun Marvel comics are few and far between, and need to be celebrated. (Hmmm...I should talk about X-Men First Class more often.) Also, I'm a big fan of the original story, just because it's so crazy and I absolutely love the fact that the writer felt the need to revisit it.

I was mostly kidding about the Macbeth thing. Good to know that there are actors who have moved past the superstitions. I just always think about that episode of the Simpsons where they go to London and run into Ian McKellan.

As for Peter's kinks, maybe MJ has Peter don Osborn hair every now and then.

Oh, and I realized that I should point out that that was a reference to Harry, not Norman. Sleeping with Norman is Gwen's thing.

Anonymous said...

*gibbers happily* Who's the artist on this? MJ's got belly! She's not stick-thin or inhumanly tuned, she's actually curvy and fleshy and realistic! That alone makes me want to buy this comic.

Scout said...

It's Mel Rubi. I think she looks great too, and I did notice how realistic she looked right away when I read the comic. I should have mentioned that.

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