Friday, February 10, 2012
Moment of the Day - Arrest That Woman
Amazing Spider-Man #380, by David Michelinie and Mark Bagley
Great, Spidey,
you saved the day, but take those kids to child services, don't just
leave them with a lady who was willing to drop them off a building
seconds earlier.
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Ken Boehm
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7 comments:
This is more of a badly written scene than a bad scene. There's a good moment to be had here, a decent scene of Spidey managing to save the day not with heroics but simply by virtue of being Spider-Man. Michelinie messes it up badly.
Scene is really out of context, since the lady (and most of New York) in question is under a wave of paranoia and psicosis triggered by Carnage's proximity to the villain Shriek... I remember "Maximum Carnage", a truly fun event back in the day.
David Michelinie's ASM run reminds me of Bendis' Avegers. The dialog is atrocious, and his storytelling is awful, but people kept buying it so he got to be on the book for close to a decade, with some fantastic artists.
Didn't have to see the writer credit to know who did the script. Wow.
And just like real life, she walks with no charge.
Those kids have really small heads.
Anonymous #2: in context or not, this scene isn't the same as the others we see in that issue, where the heroes stop looters from breaking into stores or stopping muggings on the street. What happens when the kids start crying again? She'll be back on the roof!
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