Superior Spider-Man #27

[cyberghostface]

The Green Goblin's army is overtaking New York. Spider-Man finally finds him in the sewers.



The Goblin offers, in light of the current circumstances, that the two become partners with Otto being his second-in-command. Otto refuses, saying that he's Spider-Man now, and the Goblin attacks him.

Comments

[pteppic]

About bloody time.

[cypherfdp]

To Spider-Island being blown up or someone finally realizing that might not be Peter?

[chrisdv]

Yes.

[shadowpsykie]

those are a lot of Goblins... which one is Carly again?

[cyberghostface]

The purple one with the face covered.

[big_daddy_d]

That's her? Gotta say I like the design.

[zechs80]

The purple and green one in the middle of Phil and Menace whose um.. thrusting forward with her glider.

[tugrul]

I feel sorry for Otto's henchmen.

[damar148]

Especially after that recent issue of Avengers where they're revealed to just be working guys who want to be able to pay for their kid's braces.

[joetuss]

But don't all henchmen have that same story? Crime is bred by poverty after all.

[cyberghostface]

They're not criminals though. They're legitimate. It's not like H.A.M.M.E.R.

[joetuss]

Yeah but supposedly his spider sense goes off with everyone except May

[thehood]

I think that was in Mighty Avengers and not Avengers though. But yeah, Otto's henchmen don't seem to be all bad.

[chrisdv]

"Avengers, this is Spider-Man! Spider-Island is under attack by an army of Goblins, I require assistance!"
"You have reached the Life Model Decoy of Tony Stark, if you would like to leave a message..."

I'm honestly not going to be surprised if Slott lifts that from the Avengers movie in the next issue, since he already did whole "Red on the ledger" bit & took "Crazy Town Banana Pants" from Community earlier in the series.

[donnblake]

Ah, I love a good scheme-off. Advantage Goblin, for now, but I await to see how this was all part of a third party's plans.

[akodo_rokku]

The third party will turn out to be Norman Osborn, while this Green Goblin is someone else.

I mean, Slott's made a point of teasing this Goblin's identity.

[cainofdreaming]

As long as he looks like David Bowie I'm fine with whoever is under the mask.

[bariman]

I was going to make a "magic balls" joke, but then I remembered about the Goblin-Stacey twins.

[silverhammerman]

Y'know, normally I hate when I'm reading comics and it's just issue after issue of the villain systematically destroying the hero until finally the hero pulls out a shitty last minute victory, but with Superior Spider-Man I just genuinely enjoy seeing his day get ruined, so this doesn't bother me.

Curious though, if Otto assumes that the Green Goblin here is Norman Osborn, in what way has he been at the whole villain thing for longer than him? Like, just googling the issue numbers, Doc Ock shows up in Spider-Man #3, Green Goblin in #14. Even without a compressed timeline that's less than a year.

So this is what it's like to be a really pedantic nerd. Feels.... Good?

[donnblake]

Well, he didn't say that he'd been at it years longer than Norman, just that he had been at it for years, and longer than Norman.

Although amusingly, Peter's been at 'it' longer than either of them, despite Ock's youthful appearance crack.

[silverhammerman]

Just seems kind of silly for Ock to brag that he's been in the game for a few more months than Osborn. Maybe that's deliberate though, Slott has written Ock as a pretty self-aggrandizing dude, so an empty attempt at bragging like that wouldn't be entirely out of character.

He could be taking into account the time Norman Osborn had faked his death and went to Europe after the death of Gwen Stacy I guess. Not sure how long that sabbatical is supposed to have lasted canonically.

I'm probably overthinking this whole thing.

[thehood]

He still came first, which i think was his overall point and unlike Osborn, he has not taken any breaks. Aside from his short death anyway.

[big_daddy_d]

Of all fuckin people, Osborn figures it out?.......BWAHAHAHAHAHA! About fuckin time someone did but damn is it funny that it's Osborn. Also Goblin-Spider War? Yes please. Loving the different Goblins on dispkay here. I'm actually looking forward to yhis.

[writeofway]

He didn't figure it out so much as Carlie had a journal detailing her findings when investigating SpOck. Carlie ended up being captured, Goblin-gassed and brainwashed into joining the Goblins right after Green Goblin finds the journal.

[big_daddy_d]

Ah, well still I find this situation pretty hilarious.

[doodleboy]

Considering Otto and Goblin are Spider-man's two biggest mastermind villains, this is quite entertaining.

[cyberghostface]

What I find interesting is that they've never really interacted with one another in the 616 universe. The only real time prior was when Otto was brainwashed to kill him and lightning struck both of them.

[yvonmukluk]

You know, I saw someone else point something out. Peter only has 31 memories, right? Do they include school? Is he going to come back not knowing how to read? What about his social security number? You might be able to distill everything you need to know about being Spider-man down to those 31, but not the day-to-day life of Peter Parker.