Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 212
Release Date: January 1981
Highlights
- First appearance of Hydro-Man, AKA Morrie Bench, and Sadie Frickett
- Origin of Hydro-Man, and apparently it's Spider-Man who created him
- According to the story, exactly fourteen hours, twenty-three minutes, and nine seconds have passed since issue 211 of The Amazing Spider-Man
- Peter's new neighbor, Joseph Pincus, continues his obscenest singing
- J. Jonah Jameson offers Peter freelance work
- Very poorly written story with tons of unexplained plot points - See below oddities
- With the introduction of a new, and future classic villain in the Spider-Man universe, I really wanted to like this one
Oddities
- The story spends page after page showing Morrie transforming into Hydro-Man, but then within the span of two panels of turning into a puddle, he decides that everyone will pay for turning him into a freak - There is no explanation for this immediate turn of events, no fear for what has happened, not even any exposition that Morrie knows what happened that turned him into water
- Morrie goes from saying he's going to kill Spider-Man, to the stating after that he'll rip the town off for millions - now he's a thief? There is no rhyme or reason to his character development - He's just jumping from one thing to the next with no narrative as to why
- The writers don't even seem to know how to explain Hydro-Man's motives, and it's blatantly obvious from the below panel
- Are the writer eluding that Hydro-Man turned into rain? I don't get it (see below)
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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