Amazing Spider-Girl #29


 

Writer: Tom DeFalco
Penciller: Ron Frenz

Synopsis: The origin of Osborn's plan is revealed as May has to contend with the most power Goblin entity of all. 

Comments: April is revealed to be a symbiote/human hybrid. This is the first time she manifests into her Mayhem persona. Since she's partly the Venom symbiote's spawn, she's inherited the long tongue designed by Erik Lar$en (the use of the dollar sign is intentional). 


Several things are tied together. It all involves symbiotes, cloning and the Winkler Device. I'm being facetious if Norman hired Eddie Broke for something mundane like moving some boxes and then said "Here's your annual flu shot. Company policy."  It's a good reveal that Osborn activated May's DNA to make sure her spider powers would manifest.  Fury stabbed May back in Spider-Girl #79.  In the show Gargoyles, Xanatos surreptitiously got Goliath's DNA to clone him by having a "malfunctioning" robot attack him and scratch him to get blood samples. 




This almost seems like Cell from Dragonball Z absorbing Androids 17 and 18 to achieve his final "perfect" form. And speaking of Dragonball, if you thought Super Saiyan God was pretentious, get a load of Goblin God. 







Some of the images I recognize from Peter's mind are the introduction of Mary Jane, his proposal to Mary Jane, getting a microscope from Aunt May and Uncle Ben and his wedding to Mary Jane, which all happened, respectively in Amazing Spider-Man #42, Amazing Spider-Man #290, Amazing Fantasy #15 and Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21. 



                                                        






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