Brendan McCarthy: "Spider-Man: Fever" 2 of 3

[jlroberson]

MORE SOUL SUSHI! Or rather, sushimi. Whatever.

Brendan McCarthy, still going all Ditko on your ass. Even more so, actually.In which Spider-Man goes, well, walkabout.

Has it really been that long since I posted? I must have been getting stuff done. Imagine. Anyway: the miniseries is done(and is wonderful and you should go buy it right now because Brendan McCarthy is awesome) and here's part of the second part, and since I had to leave out a LOT of amazing-looking stuff, I have left out the Dr. Strange bits and concentrated on the important parts of the Spider-Man plot, which has some revelations that it's too bad probably will never be canon. But in any event, the best legal psychedelic you can get, best absorbed through your eyes. And the trade is already slated to come out soon, so pre-order today and encourage Marvel to put out more COOL things like this.

You can find part 1 here, and for those new to Brendan, more New McCarthyism to sample here.












A quick note: this was once a human being, who, as part of something that's hard to explain, was the partner of a Crowley-like magician who came to the spiders' realm, and somehow his escape caused the poor fellow here to become a "sorror-fly."(no idea)



Part 3 soon, and yes, I will get to the rest of BIBLE JOHN as soon as I can.
(PS if interested: This week's LULU.)

Comments

[tsunamiwombat]

So is this real, or did Pete drop some seriois acid?

Cause if he's on a halluncinagenic spirit walk about, I can totally dig this.

[jlroberson]

That's his soul, that got kidnapped so that spiderguy with the top hat could kiss his boss's ass. Peter himself is still in Dr. Strange's bathtub and Strange has gone to look for him.

So it's only Peter spiritually, but it is real.

[darkblade]

You had way too much ink didn't you? You bastards.

[punishermax]

Perfect execution old bean

[darkblade]

Well they obviously didn't run out this time.

[magnetic_regina]

AHAHAHAHA. WHAT IS THIS?

I may have to buy it.

[jlroberson]

It's SPIDER-MAN: FEVER, it's 3 way cool issues long, and it's recent so your store may still have it.

[terra]

Yeah, these issues were great.

[ian_karkull]

Harra Harra!

[furioussterling]

Oh man this is insane in a really great way.


Also, I really dig the purple and green costume, for reasons I can't properly articulate.

[jlroberson]

Even though those are the colors of evil!

[eightleggedbeast]

I keep thinking of it as just the weird ~mystic light~ on him...

[thatnickguy]

This is so weird and I love it. Is there a trade for it, yet?

[jlroberson]

It will be soon!

[endis_ni]

Oh, Peter mate, don't you know to stay away from the brown acid?

[psychopathicus_rex]

It MIGHT be canon. I mean, Spidey is a prominent-enough superhero that all sorts of things are constantly being added to his origin, and not ALL of them are retconned away - he's got a whole lot of fiddly bits and pieces that are still there simply because no one has bothered to say 'that didn't happen', and this could wind up being one of them. I think, for example, during one of Marvel's great big crossovers of years past, one of the big cosmic characters - I think it was the Grandmaster, or some such - casually revealed that he had been manipulating Peter Parker's life on a grand scale for decades, ever since he was a child. It was HE who sent the spider, HE who made it radioactive in the right way, HE who subtly influenced the burglar to visit that particular house, HE who had basically been behind EVERY triumph and tragedy in Spidey's life so far, all so he could be here at this one moment (wherever 'here' was, I forget) and act as the Grandmaster's champion. I don't recall any subsequent retcons saying THAT wasn't true, so if THAT can fit into current continuity, surely this can, too.

[jlroberson]

Well, the ending McCarthy uses gives everyone the option to decide. I won't state it directly, but: Peter has so many life-changing moments he doesn't remember, doesn't he?

[psychopathicus_rex]

Most likely, no. I know if I were him, I wouldn't remember HALF the things I'd been through; there are just too many of them.

Villain: Prepare to die, Spider-Man! Here, at last, I shall have my revenge!

Spidey: And you would be?

Villain: ...I beg your pardon?

Spidey: Who are you and what are you getting revenge for?

Villain: Are you serious? I'm the Blue Baboon! Don't you remember?

Spidey: Mmm, not ringing a bell so far. I have a lot of animal-themed villains. Could you be a bit more specific?

Villain: It was two years ago...

Spidey: Nothing yet.

Villain: ...in an alternate reality...

Spidey: Been to plenty of those.

Villain: ...where the sky was green...

Spidey: Those, too.

Villain: ...and I was trying to conquer that Earth, and you stopped me.

Spidey: Happens every day, fella.

Villain: Oh, for cryin' out loud... uh... I locked you up in a dungeon.

Spidey: I've been in a few of those.

Villain: I tortured you.

Spidey: Well, naturally.

Villain: You escaped, through some infernal trickery.

Spidey: Standard procedure.

Villain: You conspired with the local cosmic beings against me, and briefly turned me into a turtledove.

Spidey: OK, now we're getting somewhere. That narrows you down to something like... one out of five hundred.

Villain: I killed your wife.

Spidey: It's happened a few times.

Villain: And your aunt.

Spidey: Same thing.

Villain: And raided your fridge, and kicked a random alleycat, and it was a Tuesday and I was wearing red.

Spidey: Hrrm. *scratches his head* Now you're sounding a BIT familiar, but that was a busy...

Villain: ...and I had a goatee then.

Spidey: *snaps fingers* NOW I remember. Just a sec. *strikes pose* NOOOOOOO! You FIEND!

*battle commences*

[jlroberson]

I want to draw this.

[psychopathicus_rex]

Well, go ahead! I certainly don't mind.

[skalja]

So, I was thinking of posting the "hand gesture" moment for OPM week, but I don't want to steal your thunder -- would that be okay with you? (Alternately, if you're planning on getting to part 3 this week you could post it as an OPM yourself!)

[jlroberson]

My favorite bit. Tell you what, when I post part 3, I'll just end with a link to YOUR post and then we're both good.(Or you can post part 3 yourself and link to my part 2, whichever) In any case, that's fine, thanks for asking. It does indeed qualify as a OPM.

[skalja]

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I feel like that bit works much better in context, at least to people who are not diehard fans of the Strange+Spidey team-up like I am, so I'll leave it to you for part 3. :D Thanks for being a great sport, though!