{"id":27104,"date":"2021-10-24T02:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T06:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/?p=27104"},"modified":"2021-11-08T08:27:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T13:27:56","slug":"amazing-spider-man-296-297-prelude-to-mcspidey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/amazing-spider-man-296-297-prelude-to-mcspidey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Spider-Man #296 &#8211; #297: Prelude to McSpidey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to explain how big a change in art and storytelling styles it was when Todd McFarlane started his work on &#8220;The Amazing Spider-Man&#8221; #298.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McFarlane&#8217;s first issue debuted in November 1987.  To set the scene with some of his Image contemporaries: Jim Lee hadn&#8217;t started &#8220;X-Men&#8221; yet. (January 1989)  Rob Liefeld hadn&#8217;t drawn &#8220;Hawk and Dove&#8221; yet.  (October 1988)  Erik Larsen hadn&#8217;t drawn &#8220;Doom Patrol.&#8221; (March 1988)  Mark Silvestri was the new artist on &#8220;Uncanny X-Men.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art Adams was a huge and rising star, but that was for his art style and not necessarily for changing how stories were told with crazy page layouts and the like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The easiest way to see the difference between the two worlds would be to look at the two &#8220;The Amazing Spider-Man&#8221; issues <em>before <\/em>McFarlane started and do a little comparison.  Conveniently, they&#8217;re included in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3hARyFa\">the same omnibus<\/a> with all of the David Michelinie\/Todd McFarlane issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Old School, But Clear, Art<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"555\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_296_oc_arms_loose.jpeg\" alt=\"Doctor Octopus' arms are loose and fighting the police\" class=\"wp-image-27665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_296_oc_arms_loose.jpeg 555w, https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_296_oc_arms_loose-300x207.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><figcaption>Doc Ock&#8217;s rampaging arms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Alex Saviuk drew and Vinny Colletta inked the two issues, and it feels (hindsight is 20\/20) very old school.  The layouts are straightforward enough: two or three tiers of panels, establishing shots with backgrounds followed by medium shots without.  Closeups are rare, unless it&#8217;s for something like Spider-Man inspecting his empty web shooters.  Backgrounds are outined, but there&#8217;s no hatching work or added texture or detailing thrown in.  Solid black areas are saved for the folds of people&#8217;s clothes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not bad work at all.  It&#8217;s solid comic book storytelling.  The action is easy to follow, the camera angle choices are smart.  Everything feels well composed, both in panel and between panels.  It&#8217;s clear and easy to read, but it&#8217;s never exciting or inspiring.  It&#8217;s not, for won&#8217;t of a better word, flashy.  Nobody&#8217;s mind was blown by these pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hesitate to add that Colletta&#8217;s inks likely didn&#8217;t help matters on the surface level.  He gets enough of a bad rap already for erasing Kirby&#8217;s pencils, but it feels like he did similar level work here.  Backgrounds are all drawn with a thin single width line. Buildings are a lot of simple straight lines, with the brick work drawn in only sporadically.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It works; it tells the story and it explains to the reader anything the reader might need to know.  It&#8217;s probably for the best that Saviuk does his most detailed work on the people in the foreground.  That&#8217;s where line widths vary and shadows fall in and the art starts to feel like it has more volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_296_spider-man_stairs.jpeg\" alt=\"Spider-Man running down the stairs, Doc Ock's arms chasing him\" class=\"wp-image-27666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_296_spider-man_stairs.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_296_spider-man_stairs-300x143.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>I like the storytelling here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To be fair, this was originally printed on newsprint, which sucked up black inks and muted colors.  Reading it now digitally or in the Omnibus, it&#8217;s been cleaned up and reprinted on slick paper where no detail is hidden or smudged.  Colletta had been inking comics for decades at this point.  He knew how much detail would be too much.  You need to work towards the final output, and maybe that&#8217;s what he and Saviuk both were doing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet I look at these two issues and they just feel boring, visually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are pages where Spider-Man is swinging through the city and outlining the plot to the reader &#8212; a Michelinie trademark! &#8212; and even those are awkward. The backgrounds get more detailed and more three dimensional, but Spider-Man&#8217;s body language is relatively flat.  It&#8217;s not exactly realistic, but it&#8217;s also not exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_296_swinging_spider-man.jpeg\" alt=\"Spider-Man swings through the city\" class=\"wp-image-27668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_296_swinging_spider-man.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_296_swinging_spider-man-300x293.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption>Anatomically correct? Sure. But not dynamic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The difference in art styles isn&#8217;t immediately obvious when you look at McFarlane&#8217;s first couple of issues, but if you compare his later &#8220;Amazing Spider-Man&#8221; work to these two issues, it&#8217;s night and day.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember that when McFarlane came onto the book, he was still a relatively new artist.  And, perhaps most importantly, he wasn&#8217;t inking himself yet.  It wasn&#8217;t until he took over those duties that his trademark style truly showed through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the bones of it were there right away.  Spider-Man&#8217;s poses grew instantly more bendable and his eyes grew three sizes.  Even if the final details weren&#8217;t in place yet, you could see a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the flip side, there are moments in McFarlane&#8217;s storytelling where you wish he&#8217;d back up a bit, give the characters more space to breathe.  Those skinny tall panels boxed people in a bit.  Sometimes, that worked, and other times it felt restrictive.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll get to all that in time, here on The McSpidey Chronicles&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As my memory recalls, Saviuk moved to &#8220;Web of Spider-Man&#8221; after this, which is where he was when I started collecting comics a year and a half later.  I don&#8217;t have those issues anymore, but I do remember a few issues where he&#8217;d have panels that looked influenced directly by McFarlane, though still in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone did eventually adjust to the big eyes and the webbing, but some of the more extreme poses were harder to adopt, or just not in the style of other artists at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Marital Problem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the point this story was written, the Peter\/Mary Jane marriage couldn&#8217;t have been more than a year or two old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, of course, the first thing a Spider-Man writer does after such a momentous occasion is to separate the two. Mary Jane is off filming a soap opera across the country.  Peter is left alone, leading the bachelor life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_297_peter_mary_jane_phone_call.jpeg\" alt=\"Peter's phone call with Mary Jane is kinky\" class=\"wp-image-27670\" width=\"450\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_297_peter_mary_jane_phone_call.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_297_peter_mary_jane_phone_call-300x296.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption>Peter&#8217;s tongue turns Mary Jane&#8217;s thoughts naughty. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This entire story is the classic &#8220;illusion of change.&#8221;  Peter is still a photographer for the Daily Bugle, having a tough time getting any assignments and only making money from his pictures he shoots of Spider-Man.  He&#8217;s alone in the city. He has money issues.  He can&#8217;t catch a break and, in fact, has to embarrass himself in front of the entire city &#8212; or just a couple people in a window across the street &#8212; in order to save the day.  When he does save the day in another occasion, he&#8217;s threatened with a lawsuit when he breaks stuff along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Married or not. Living with Aunt May or on his own.  Black costume or red and blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s all the same.  Everything past the core story of the luckless Peter Parker with all of the responsibility his powers give him &#8211; it&#8217;s all the illusion of change. It works!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Amazing Spider-Man #296<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_296_cover_400px.jpeg\" alt=\"Amazing Spider-Man #296 cover by John Byrne\" class=\"wp-image-27652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_296_cover_400px.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_296_cover_400px-195x300.jpeg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spider-Man runs out of his web fluid in the rain and now has to slum it with the norms and walk home. (His costume has no pockets, so he can&#8217;t even afford bus fare.) When he gets home, some of the rain had already fallen through his skylight, making his bathroom floor wet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re two pages in and already Spider-Man is a complete sad sack who can&#8217;t catch a broke and who won&#8217;t, by the way, add any pockets to his costume in the near future.  The web fluid issue, on the other hand, becomes part of the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Doctor Octopus is undergoing some kind of &#8220;new radical sleep therapy&#8221; in a psychiatric facility, separated from his arms as he&#8217;s being observed by a caring doctor.  While he lays there in bed, the doctor gets to give all the exposition we need to know what&#8217;s going on: that Octopus shuts down at the very thought of Spider-Man.  We get the nightmare sequence to go along with that, of course.  There&#8217;s a second later on.  If you hate dream sequences, this is not your issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, it gives us this sneak peek into the Spider-Verse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_296_spiderverse.jpeg\" alt=\"A Doctor Octopus nightmare gives us a peak at a different kind of Spider-Verse\" class=\"wp-image-27650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_296_spiderverse.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_296_spiderverse-300x154.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is so much going on in this panel.  I have many questions&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter, meanwhile, has redesigned his webshooters, but needs money to fund the new tech toys. That leads him to the Bugle to look for more photographic work.  Hey, kids, in 1988, photographers were busy people at newspapers.  The reporters didn&#8217;t just whip out their iPhones to get a boring headshot to go along with their story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Octopus&#8217;s fears bring his arms back to him and attack Spider-Man along the way. Spider-Man concocts a plan with the help of Octopus&#8217; doctor to bring him in safely. It backfires in an unexpected way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Peter got some pictures he could sell, and Octopus has landed on a new way of defeating Spider-Man: by destroying New York City!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be continued!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has all the elements of a classic Spider-Man story, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Amazing Spider-Man #297<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_297_cover_400px.jpeg\" alt=\"Amazing Spider-Man #297 cover by Alex Saviuk\" class=\"wp-image-27659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_297_cover_400px.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm_297_cover_400px-193x300.jpeg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We begin with three pages of Spider-Man using his new webshooters, and showing off how his camera belt can hold extra web fluid cartridges.  Then he accidentally webs up an innocent person walking the street, who threatens to sue.  Spider-Man meekly apologizes and tells him he&#8217;ll be free in an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spider-Man is a jerk!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After that, we get a bunch of little scenes that continue on the soap opera of Peter&#8217;s pike.  Aunt May and Mary Jane&#8217;s mother stop by for a visit and to take him out for dinner at an awkward moment. Robby Roberson at the Daily Bugle wants Peter to consider another career (!).  Doc Ock starts to make plans against Spider-Man.  Mary Jane and Peter share a phone call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spider-Man interrupts a theft at a daytime black-tie penthouse party. (It&#8217;s a weird combination of factors there.)  One of the bad guys is attempting to steal a painting that has quite the provenance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm297_painting_sienkiewicz.jpeg\" alt=\"From Amazing Spider-Man #297, someone tries to steal a Bill Sienkiewicz painting.  \" class=\"wp-image-27644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm297_painting_sienkiewicz.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.pipelinecomics.com\/mcspidey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/asm297_painting_sienkiewicz-300x228.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And that, boys and girls, is how you pronounce Bill Sienkiewicz&#8217;s last name phonetically.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, in the last nine pages, Spider-Man finds and confronts Doctor Octopus, only winning by making the good doctor feel like he&#8217;s won by publicly embarrassing Spider-Man and letting him go on to live with the shame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It feels like something comics would do 30 years ago before everything had to be so serious and &#8220;realistic.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, hey, the city didn&#8217;t get blown up so Spider-Man did his job!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Storytelling, In General<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The bulk of the story in this two-parter isn&#8217;t all that much different from what you&#8217;d see in the McFarlane years on the series.  Michelinie may have been smart enough to include as many villains into the series for his wunderkind artist to draw, but his basic storytelling skills and style remained consistent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If anything, he may have learned to tell his stories in fewer panels.  Saviuk averaged seven panels per page in these two issues. McFarlane still used a lot of panels in his pages &#8212; many of them extreme close-ups, narrow, or skinny &#8212; but he also had a couple of spots in every issue to flex his artistic muscles.  That&#8217;s where you&#8217;d get the dramatic Spider-Man swinging through the city or the big reveal getting a half page or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without seeing the original scripts, it&#8217;s hard to know how much of that was McFarlane rearranging the panels outlined in the scripts and how much was Michelinie adapting his work to his artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing&#8217;s for sure, though: These were stories constructed before the Trade Paperback Era.  These two issues are standalone stories that work well together.  The rest of the issues we&#8217;ll be looking at with The McSpidey Chronicles are likewise one or two-parters.  The Assassin Nation is a six-part story that seems custom-made for a trade today, but Michelinie constructed those as standalone issues along the way.  Another summer bi-weekly run had a theme running through it, but it was never a single story carried across multiple issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s part of the reason the pages have as many panels as they do.  Michelinie had to get the complete story done in 22 pages.  There&#8217;s no room to stretch out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s something we should be very happy about today, because it gave him the chance to throw as many different characters at McFarlane to draw and redesign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That parade of costumed characters begins with the next issue and that classic Spider-Man nemesis &#8212; Chance!?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buckle up &#8211; the ride is about to begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before there was Todd McFarlane, there was Alex Saviuk and Vinny Colletta.  Yeah, it&#8217;s two wildly different worlds. 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