Amazing Spider-Man Family #4 (Swiney-Girl)

 



Writer: Tom DeFalco
Penciller: Shawn Moll

Synopsis: The origin of May "Mayday" Porker, the spectacular Swiney-Girl. 

Comments: The Spider-Ham in these stories takes place on a different Earth than the Spider-Ham that Tom DeFalco created years ago. On this Earth, Peter Porker was a pig who was bitten by a radioactive spider instead of vice-versa on the original Spider-Ham earth.  The fight Spider-Ham has with the Green Gobbler seems to be taken from the end of the first Spider-Man (2002) movie where Spider-Man rescues a bunch of children on the Roosevelt Island Tram from the Green Goblin. Reed Richards is Weed Wiskers here. On the original Spider-Ham's earth, he is Mooster Fantastic. Although we shouldn't get too caught up in continuity when it comes to Spider-Ham because he was drawn inconsistently in comics that took place on that Earth, as the examples show from Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham #1 and #12.







While she's Mary Crane Watsow-Parker here, Mary Jane was Mary Jane Waterbuffalo on the original Spider-Ham's world. Spider-Ham getting kidnapped and carried away by the Green Gobbler is the same pose as the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #39. 

 





I like how May chooses the black costume because black is a slimming color. Mary Crane uses her fashion designer experience to take it in. 



In the flashback of Spider-Ham battling the original Green Gobbler, Peter has a damaged mask like Peter Parker in the first Spider-Man movie at the end. 







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