Sliced my left middle finger open this afternoon while trying to cut a tree branch for my botany collection. It's seriously messing with my hunt-and-peck typing. You don't care. That's OK, I'm not judging.
I was pretty negative in yesterday's post, and today I'm going to talk about a book that's three issues from cancellation, so I bet you think it'll be more of the same, right? Wrong! Even though it's a little sad the title's coming to an end, these last three issues are going to be awesome, methinks.
On the personal side, May seems to be trying to figure how to balance Spider-Girl and May Parker (ah, the eternal struggle of the Parkers). It's likely she wants to go back to playing basketball to help save Coach Thompson's job (and how weird is it that Flash Thompson jst became a coach at his old high school in the main Marvel Universe), but her powers give her an unfair advantage. Her best friend Courtney is about ready to accuse her of having a relationship with Courtney's boyfriend Moose, seeing as how he keeps turning to May for advice, instead of Courtney, who is always there for him. Of course, nothing is going on between May and Moose, but it may be hard for May to convince Courtney of that. Heck, she hasn't even told her dad that Normie Osborn is bonded with the Venom symbiote. He's going to find out sooner or later, she'd be wise to make sure he heard it from her, and not say, Johnny Storm.
You say teenage angst isn't your thing? Then why are you reading a book with "Spider-" in the title? Fine, we'll talk action.
The Scriers still want Spider-Girl dead, even if it's only to strike at Kaine. They've sent the original Hobgoblin after her, who's prowess doesn't seem to have dimmed much after years of incarceration. The Black Tarantula is on his way to New York, possibly to protect May from the Hobgoblin. Of course, he's a wanted criminal by Agent Whedon, which means Kaine and Venom Symbiote Normie Osborn will get involved, which means Raptor will probably get dragged in, and I've got a feeling she's going to bite the dust along with Phil Urich. She and Normie are supposed to get married, and I'm thinking it's not going to happen. Too bad; I think it'd be nice to end the series with a wedding, maybe have Peter shake Normie's hand, as a symbol of trust, that the Parkers and the Osborns are finally past the genrations of conflict. But, I figure the symbiote won't let Normie throw his life away to save Raptor, and then May's going to have to deal with out of control Venom/Normie.
Oh yeah, this is sounding more awesome all the time. I really hope DeFalco pulls out all the stops, since it sounds like Marvel is just doing away with the MC2 Universe altogether after this. Seems like a waste to me, but it gives the creative team carte blanche to do whatever the hell they want I'd say.
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