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Really enjoying the book. Just finished the odd VULTURE two parter and now onto Jackal and Punisher

A shift to Ross Andru as penciller works fine, and a two parter with Man Wolf as Peter deals with his grief and anger, with tension with MJ and Harry.

Those first three issues still hit hard over fifty years later. Even the tiresome hero v hero plot in the third issue was well done, with the background of Peter’s mourning and MJ finally starting to become a realistic character

#131

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#130

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even if it wasn't doctor octopus, peter would still have been horrified to see his aunt marry another, move on from ben's death. he says mere panels earlier that he can't stop thinking about gwen. his own preventable tragedy, his own lover lost. to see his aunt make the step he is unable to would have always been a mortifying sight... even if the step wasn't taken with his arch nemesis

#129

you know we love the punisher

#128

solid mystery! i think though it would have been easier to make the roommates actual twins instead of just people who happen to look exactly alike. kind of a sweaty explanation if you ask me

#127

dude the vulture just actually murdered someone thats crazy he normally just like robs banks

#126

crikey its da bloody kangaroo mate whadda we gonna do

#145, Gerry Conway, Ross Andru

save it for the papers, jonah

#124

it has not stopped raining since gwen stacy died. the ambience of this new darker world is moody, moonlit, and soaked through. Peter is more aimless than ever, allowing himself to be caught away on emotion and act out in fits of grieving guilt-ridden rage. and also there is a werewolf on the loose

#127, Conway, Kane, Romita

peters "wait a minute" got a real chuckle out of me this guy is so unserious. also gwen's funeral looked like a real bummer

#122

some genuinely tender stuff in here among the melancholic drama and violent anger. that scene with harry is legitimately haunting. the way peter carries around and speaks to gwen's corpse as if she can somehow still hear him, only stopping when literally torn apart by an officer of the law, is devastating. conway is locked in and this entire arc has been simply too good.

The Amazing Spider-Man #121 by Gerry Conway and Gil Kane

this is the big one. spoilers if somehow you don't know what happens in this comic book.




the death of gwen stacy really holds up. even knowing this issue as well as i do, it remained excellently tense. the goblin feels like a living natural disaster who cannot be contained, only redirected. poor peter. poor gwen. what an issue