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Spider-Woman #33Issue(s): Spider-Woman #33 Review/plot: Guest writer J.M DeMatteis himself calls Turner D. "corny"... ![]() ...so i guess we should take all this with a grain of salt, although that's hard to do considering all the murder going on. The gist of this story is that Spider-Woman takes a case that requires her to travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco to stop Turner D. Century, who rides around on a floating bicycle with a doll in the back and burns down buildings that represent the degeneration of society. ![]() And he thinks Spider-Woman is a slutty dresser. ![]() DeMatteis keeps up the tension between Spider-Woman and Scotty McDowell. He's mad when she chooses to rescue people instead of pursuing Turner (and yes, some "realistic" nudity from Leialoha). ![]() ![]() But Scotty gets his information wrong at one point, and Turner D. napalms San Francisco's Chinatown. It turns out that doll's head is a bomb. ![]() With that, Scotty stops acting so haughty. ![]() Scotty's information did seem sound though. It turns out that all of the properties that Turner D. was attacking used to be owned by a Morgan MacNeil Hardy. The Chinatown attack was a fluke. So Spider-Woman goes to Hardy's mansion, and finds that inside it, an old fashioned town is set up. Turner D. is giving a speech to his mannequins, and doesn't like to be interrupted. ![]() But Hardy, a shriveled old man, arrives... ![]() ...and Spider-Woman is able to convince him to tell Turner D. to stop. But that's only after Turner D. has a fit and starts a big fire, which both he and Hardy seemingly die in (although both will appear again). Also in this issue, Spider-Woman catches Scotty masturbating... ![]() ...and a woman hits on Jessica in a bar in San Francisco. ![]() Obviously a crazy and much-mocked premise, but this issue is actually leaps and bounds better than the recent Michael Fleisher stuff. Quality Rating: C+ Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A References:
![]() Crossover: N/A Continuity Insert? N My Reprint: N/A Inbound References (4): showCharacters Appearing: Morgan MacNeil Hardy, Scotty McDowell, Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), Turner D. Century CommentsEvil masterminds motivated by nostalgia is a bit of a DeMatteis thing early on. In addition to Turner and Hardy, Professor Power has a similar, if less extreme, outlook. This really is a decent issue--my first exposure to Turner D Century was in the Handbooks, and I was surprised when I read this and found his surrealism and himicidal tendencies kind of work; he's not a total joke. Posted by: Walter Lawson | July 5, 2013 3:14 AM It's not awful, at least he was an original villain. But they should have toned down the body count. Killing dozens of people on each outing was a bit much, even for a comic book. Posted by: Kveto from Prague | July 7, 2013 4:39 PM I think here we find JM DeMatteis' first published story from Marvel. I like the groundbreaking nods to Jessica's cosmopolitan lifestyle, the humor- funny, a nostalgic p.o.v. is the natural enemy of a new writer on a character (new herself)- no? Meanwhile, Century's a chance for JM to unload his actual nostalgia in a fun way that acknowledges how, with the power, the vision of how to achieve a fair and perfect world's gotten more complex than it probably was two generations before. This is JM's first Spider-Man story. My first of his Spider-Man stories is in MTU #111, his 2nd try-complete with Spider (story builder) God Omm. Here we have more of a Kyle Richmond tale, revisiting what is I'm sure a big favorite Defenders storyline for its later writers: The Headmen! Callbacks to the Origin of Kyle Richmond- and yet another story where some menace comes out in the trappings of a past decade! I see how he got tapped to write Captain America, in a way. Posted by: Cecil the Sea Sick Serpent | July 25, 2016 2:54 PM Sorry, I meant to leave that second comment under MTU #101. Posted by: Cecil the Sea Sick Serpent | July 26, 2016 1:36 AM Great stuff! Lame villian but it's so funny it's borders on greatness. Posted by: JSfan | March 16, 2017 8:54 AM Comments are now closed. |
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