Sunday, November 16, 2008

Spider-Man #21 (April 1992)



"Dealing Arms"
Writer/Artist: Erik Larsen
Letterer: Chris Eliopoulos
Colorist: Joe Rosen

Is that not the coolest thing you've ever seen or what? Yeah, so, in this issue, a brutal fight with the Sinister Six leaves Spider-Man with a hairline fracture in his arm and a busted eyepiece, but the good scientists at CARE Labs outfit Spidey with a new high-tech cast and cyborg-pirate patch. It's such a good look that it begs to be used as a scale for judging any technological improvements to Spider-Man's appearance. For instance, this issue gets








out of 5 Spider-Mans with a Cyborg Arm, a near-perfect score, given because of the awesome nature of the cyborg-pirate look, and also the issue's very solid pun of a title. Meanwhile, the inclusion of the Spider-Armor in Web of Spider-Man #100, seen below:

receives only 







out of 5 Spider-Mans with a cyborg arm, because the Spider-Armor is tragically lame.

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