COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Amazing Spider-Man 625 Modern
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1010627007
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Owner:
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AlphaPrimeIan
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Synopsis: "Endangered Species"
Back in Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #617, Marvel Comics made an important breakthrough. The Rhino (classic villain known well by all) was superseded by a new Rhino, a mechanically-enhanced super-beast created by the latest bio-surgeon on the block, Doctor Tramma.
As related in that issue, the woman behind this all is Mrs. Kravinoff. Wife of Kraven the original, she now seeks to restore her family's honor, etc. Naturally, the largest part of that exercise involves defeating Spider-Man in a particularly intricate fashion understood only by herself and nobody else. No, I'm quite sure the writers at Marvel don't understand it either. But don't panic, it won't stop the comics being published.
Anyhow. The breakthrough of what I spoke is the fact that the Rhino (Aleksei Sytsevich) has recently found himself released from prison. More interestingly, he decides to go straight. Even more interestingly he finds a love interest (Oksana) and seems to be making things work.
Now, at that point you would expect the old formula to be trotted out. You know what I mean. The set-up is all present and correct. To wit: Villain has gone straight, falls in love. New, more powerful version of villain is created by mysterious forces and challenges the original, also threatening love interest of original.
Like Bonnie & Clyde, Gingers & Rogers, the inevitable follow-up is... classic villain tries to follow ways of peace, new villain kills wife, burns down house, performs unspeakable sexual acts on dog. Former villain is reluctantly forced to don his gun-belt once more and meet new villain in showdown at noon in middle of town.
But ASM #617 avoided all that. Instead, the Rhino just walked away with his wife.
Eight issues later, the Rhino story is revisited. The new Rhino appears once more, demands to fight Sytsevich. Threatens wife. It's ASM #617 all over again. Why are we doing this again? We already did this story?
Aleksei agrees to fight at noon. Wait. No, agrees to fight at midnight. Then again, brilliantly scripted, asks Spider-Man to help him run away. See. We're just repeating ourselves here.
Oh, hang on. New Rhino cheats, and kills Aleksei's wife before midnight even comes around. Old Rhino is forced to don his Rhino suit and battle the newcomer, totally destroying him.
Released: March 17, 2010
Writer: Joe Kelly
Cover Artist: Marko Djurdjevic
Est. Print Run: 54,179
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