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Originally appeared
on Spider-Fan
By Will "Wildman" Harrison (E-Mail)
Wow. If this is Tangled Web's last hurrah, as most believe,
it went out with one hell of a bang. After months of stories
that ranged from subpar to ludicrous, "The System"
is the best issue of Tangled Web since "Severance
Package." Just when the book's getting cancelled,
we finally get a great story. Talk about the Parker luck.
This
was the kind of story that Tangled Web was created for.
It's just too bad we didn't see more issues like this
one.
Originally
appeared in ZENtertainment
This comic read more like an issue of POWERS than your
average Spidey title and viewers of HOMICIDE, LAW &
ORDER, or other crime dramas may find this appealing as
well. While reading this comic I wasn't sure where it
was going or how it would all be wrapped up before it
was all over, but I guarantee the last page makes the
story well worth it. This is a great comic that shows
us exactly what this title is supposed to do, display
the impact of one hero on the inhabitants of a city –
and it does it marvelously.
Reviewed
by Jamie
Tarquini
By
Augie DeBlieck Jr.
(originally appeared on January 21, 2003 for Comic
Book Resources)
The
writer is Brian Patrick Walsh, who crafts a fine police
interrogation story here that touches on a topic plenty
of other comics have been looking at lately: How does
a "cape's" interference in the natural process
of the law hinder the average cop's job? This issue deals
with one such case where Spider-Man's quick apprehension
of a pair of robbers-turned-murderers leads to prosecutorial
problems. The police are forced to desperate measures
to get a confession out of a suspect before the lawyer
shows up. The story, which shows Spider-Man on panel only
once in 22 pages, has a nice twist at the end. But don't
read this looking for THE USUAL SUSPECTS. Read it because
everything before that holds up as a story on its own.
That twist doesn't feel tacked on if you know anything
about Spider-Man.
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