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Title: Spider-Man: Torment! by Todd McFarlane ISBN: 0-87135-805-0 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: March, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: A Look Back in Torment
Comment: Wow.
I hadn't read TORMENT since it's initial five issue run in 1990. Having just re-read it, some 13+ years later, all I can say is:
Wow.
Well, that's not ALL I can say, but MAN... wow.
That was bad.
I didn't notice how bad it was back then. Probably because I was 15 and, like everyone else, caught up in the wheels of the hype machine. Whatever the case, time and a bit of maturation have revealed TORMENT to be abysmal on nearly every level.
Art? It's McFarlane in all of his palsied-lines, silly-putty-faced character, pointy-footed Spidey glory.
Story? Little to none-- all of which could have been told in 2 issues.
Like the DOOM-DOOM-DOOM found on nearly every page, the events in torment are a nightmare of repetition: Spidey fights the Lizard, who is "unholy" and mad with bloodlust, MJ pines for Peter, Spidey fights the Lizard, MJ dances, Spidey's costume gets shredded, and so on, etc. For five issues. With lots of exclamation points. And a sea of captions. And unintentionally hilarious lines such as: "Like some blood-crazed vampire, the Lizard means to rip out the Spider's jugular."
Oh, well. It's Todd's first foray into writing, so I should probably cut him some slack.
DOOM-DOOM-DOOM
(For a well-written and intelligent take on the same material, read the story that inspired this mess: KRAVEN'S LAST HUNT, the antithesis of this book in every way.)
Rating: 1
Summary: Muy pobre historia
Comment: Primero que nada, no me gusta el estilo de McFarlane, de repente funciona en Spawn pero no se como a otro superheroe le puede servir una capa de 40 metros, pero en fin. No hay nada que pueda rescatar de este numero, el argumento es terrible, una bruja que hace cosas malas, listo. El arte no es bueno, nunca vi un Lizard tan feo y aparte las composiciones de las paginas no quedan bien. Felizmente pude venderlo porque me doleria conservar este TPB en mi coleccion.
Rating: 1
Summary: Yes, it really is Torment!!
Comment: These comics are a great glimpse into the mentality of the market at the time. It was all about the artist. But even the art isn't that good, as I think it got to the point where even McFarlane didn't know what he was drawing half the time.
The premise is insulting in it's simplicity. A witch, who is miffed at the wall-crawler for the death of her man, Kraven, conjures up some junk to control the powerful Lizard. Not Curt Connors, no, forget that the Lizard is actually an interesting character with any history or even humanity. He's just a killing machine. That could be overlooked as an essential part of McFarlane's story, if there was a story at all. It's as if McFarlane made up the story he did for the express purpose of drowning out any personality in the characters. He has Spider-Man drugged up so he's scarcely even going through the motions. Mary Jane is relegated to the role of worrying little wife. The Lizard is mind controlled.
There is really nothing to recommend this inane story. Maybe if you want to see where the early days of Image Comics started, you can check this out. But even Spawn is more engaging than this junk. Its one accomplishment is how well it shows why artists generally should draw and not write. But then again, no one will ever confuse McFarlane with Frank Miller, that's for sure.
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Title: Spider-Man (Marvel Legends) by David Michelinie, Todd McFarlane ISBN: 0785110372 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Spider-Man Visionaries: Todd Mcfarlane by Todd McFarlane, David Michelinie ISBN: 0785108009 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Spider Man Revenge of the Green Goblin: Revenge of the Green Goblin by Roger Stern, Ron Frenz, Howard Mackie, Paul Jenkins ISBN: 0785108734 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Spider Man's Tangled Web, Vol. 2 by Kaare Andrews, Darwyn Cooke, Lee Weeks, Bruce Jones, Karre Andrews, Cooke Darwyn ISBN: 0785108742 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 4: The Life & Death of Spiders by J. Michael Straczynski, John Romita, Scott Hanna ISBN: 0785110976 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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