Amazing Spider-Girl #12

 



Writer: Tom DeFalco
Penciller: Ron Frenz

Synopsis: Spider-Girl has to make some hard choices and hurt the people she loves in order to stop Carnage. 

Comments: With his references to Scarface, A Cry in the Dark and his rendition of the old 1967 Spider-Man cartoon theme song, Carnage reminds me of Deadpool. 





While Moose seemed to know last issue that Carnage had the ability to save his father, Spider-Girl plants the idea in his head that Carnage can cure his father's cancer here. 



It's revealed to Courtney that the girl with Moose is his cousin, Donna Mansfield. In Thor #427, it was revealed to Eric Masterson that the guy he saw at Jackie Lukus' home was her brother, Jim. 





To destroy Carnage, May causes her brother to lose his hearing and prevents Moose from curing his father. 



It's revealed that the whole thing was a Deep State plot by S.H.I.E.L.D. to get Congress to destroy all the Carnage specimens. Nick Fury is revealed to be the shadowy figure in issue #10. At this time, Nick Fury was already being drawn to to resemble Samuel L. Jackson in the Ultimate Marvel line, but in the main 616 Marvel books, he was still being drawn as a white man. 



While it probably would have turned his father into another Carnage, Moose blames Spider-Girl for preventing him from being cured. It made me think of other instances in comic books where people wanted a superhero to help cure their own/or their loved one's medical condition. For comic book fans, the question does probably cross their mind why superheroes don't do more to cure cancer/AIDS. Below are some examples.  Superman #64 vol. 2 involves a little boy who wants Superman to save his father from dying of a brain tumor. Squadron Supreme #2 involved Nuke asking Tom Thumb to come up with a cure for cancer to save his dying parents. Incredible Hulk #420 had Jim Wilson asking Professor Hulk to give him a blood transfusion to cure his AIDS. These characters had varying reactions to the superheroes being unable to help based on their grief and maturity.  Thor #54 vol. 2 showed Asgardians coming to Earth and curing all diseases in a terminal ward. This was an intriguing storyline until it devolved issues later under Dan Jurgens into anti-socialist screed. 


                                                         
























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