With Sony’s rerelease each of the Spider-Man movies, we turn back to the clock two decades to 2004 and the film that set the standard for a live-action Spider-Man movie which swings back into theaters this Monday. Returning all the notable stars from the first film (including both Willem Dafoe and Cliff Robertson in a pair of questionable cameos), the sequel focuses on the toll Spider-Man has caused on Peter Parker‘s (Tobey Maguire) life.
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back nearly 60 years to John D. MacDonald‘s second Travis McGee novel. While doing a bit of sleuthing for an old army buddy, the salvage consultant will get into a case which he will lose himself both in the arms of a beautiful young woman and the grips of a dark conspiracy. Out of his element, and working in the big city, McGee looks into money left behind to Mike’s younger sister Nina after the death of her fiancé. There’s no rational explanation for the large sum of money and Nina fears what he might have gotten involved in.
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Aa El Rojo learns the connection between Zorro and Rosa, and takes step to draw out the hero by burning down the local church and kidnapping Rosa’s friend, the reluctant Rosa must give in to the delusion to help her brother survive. Her plan to take the opportunity to steal from Rojo while his attention is elsewhere is a good one, but the villain’s sudden return puts the lives of all of them in jeopardy.
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My favorite moments of Ultimate Spider-Man #3 center around the interactions between Peter Parker and his daughter May who is the only one who knows her father’s secret. We get the pair working to keep the secret from Mary Jane and then May helping her father find the perfect look for this universe’s Spider-Man. We also get a fun little character beat with Peter discussing Spider-Man with Ben and Jonah, sticking up for the city’s new hero.
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Fables comes to a close… again. Fables #162 wraps up “The Black Forest,” the twelve-part return to the Fables Universe for Bill Willingham. Although its various epilogues tease additional stories for some of the separate characters, Fables #162 does feel like a finale. Our catalyst to the end of Peter Pan comes in the form of the new Jack in the Green who finally catches up with the villain and uses her arrow not to kill Pan but to release Tinkerbell from his control damning him to a far worse fate than death.
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