Picked this up today and stoked to read it!

Just because I like Spider-Man doesn’t mean I want a Spider-Man-less film universe detached from the broader Spider-Man films (which already have their own issues), in which villains & other side characters are flimsily stretched into being protagonists in boilerplate plots with shaky logic. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I hate when that happens!

Update: Highly recommend West Coast Avengers.

@gerryduggan.bsky.social

Some of this stuff reads differently when you consider that roughly 18 years later, Marvel would publish a story arc where the Lizard eats his wife and son. They get brought back via the miracles of cloning a few years later, though. (Amazing Spider-Man 365, August 1992)

This issue’s primary subplot is part of the build for one of my least favorite Spider-Man stories of the ‘90s: The “return” of Peter Parker’s parents, who ultimately turn out a few years later to be androids created by then-recently-deceased (but not really) Harry Osborn to mess with Peter.

I def had one of him when I was a kid

Literally missed the entire fight waiting for Netflix to buffer. 😂