tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2734283773701136760.post19444857841454067..comments2024-03-26T20:11:01.933-04:00Comments on NOT BLOG X: SPIDER-MAN #14 - September 1991G. Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12279461069684403792noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2734283773701136760.post-19645339160609301102010-10-30T05:44:28.261-04:002010-10-30T05:44:28.261-04:00As bad as this was, it was ten times less cringe i...As bad as this was, it was ten times less cringe inducing than his mis-characterization of Ghost Rider and the possessed Hobgoblin. And these were my thoughts as I read through the series as an 8 year old child, even.<br /><br />This was the issue that first made me realize McFarlane has a hard time drawing regular human heads and faces. Or rather, that he is capable of doing so but frequently decides not to for purposes unspecified. Perhaps it bores an artist of his talent to be trifled with such mundane tasks and so he takes an offbeat approach to entertain himself? In any case, I found it odd that he made these characters we are supposed to find pitiable so grotesquely inhuman looking. And stupid. And prone to urinating on themselves. On the one hand, in the first issue of this story arc, if one call call it that—and many issues of Spawn—he seems to be making a point about society's callous treatment of the homeless. Yet in the second he depicts them as inbred mental retards.Mr. Fantastichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08236342863495691423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2734283773701136760.post-54552178618142750502009-12-17T03:47:30.428-05:002009-12-17T03:47:30.428-05:00Haven't read the issues, but it seems like it&...Haven't read the issues, but it seems like it's padded out to be 2 issues long, when it just as easily could've been an issue or an annual. I do remember some of this story being printed on a t-shirt you could order (Spidey punching Morbius, iirc). <br /><br />But yeah, doesn't look like a lost classic.wwk5dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2734283773701136760.post-58560811494971011272009-12-16T11:41:16.336-05:002009-12-16T11:41:16.336-05:00Wow - I collected the Spider-Man series until Erik...Wow - I collected the Spider-Man series until Erik Larsen left. I totally remembered Torment, The Hobgoblin story and the Wendigo story, but Sub City completely left my mind. Nice to see that he ran out of things to talk about in a little over a year. Looking forward to what you cover next!Maxnoreply@blogger.com