Amazing Spider-Girl #30

 



Writer: Tom DeFalco
Penciller: Ron Frenz

Synopsis: The battle inside and out against the Goblin God. 

Comments: The cover is an homage to What If #105/Spider-Girl #0. 

A battle on the outside and the inside happened in the final issue of Thunderstrike (issue 24), where Thunderstrike, possessed by the Bloodaxe, battled Thor and the Avengers while internally fought the Bloodaxe's control with the help of the ghost of Skurge the Executioner. It didn't end happily for Thunderstrike. 

It's revealed Arana killed the previous Black Tarantula, but perhaps it was more complicated than that given the Black Tarantula's healing abilities. 



The Mark of Kaine, Kaine's bizzaro wall crawling power used to burn/disfigure opponents make an appearance here. The bridge is the George Washington Bridge, because that's where Gwen Stacy died in Amazing Spider-Man #121.


Benjy's webbing powers finally manifest here. He has organic webbing like Peter did in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies. 



The visions in Peter's mind that May encounters are from Amazing Spider-Man #14 and Amazing Spider-Man #121, Spider-Girl #27 and What If #105/Spider-Girl #0.  When John Byrne revamped Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Chapter One, he removed the Enforcers from continuity by having them absent from Spider-Man's first battle with the Green Goblin in issue #8. 






Spider-Girl's side punch of Osborn reminds me of American Dream's side punch of Pincer in A-Next #10. 




Spider-Girl's full page spread punch of Osborn is taken from Spider-Man: Revenge of the Green Goblin #1, which in turn is taken from Amazing Spider-Man #121. 




                                                       



Probably to almost no one's surprise, May's Jiminy Cricket who was named May is revealed to be Aunt May. 



With Osborn defeated, the Parkers agree to take in April even though they know it will not be an easy adjustment. 





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