Watching Comic POP’s Back Issues series. Just finished their retrospective on Spider-Man: The Other.
Wow… just wow. I remember trying to read that story and giving up on it when it came out, but I didn’t know how bad it was. Spidey gets his eye ripped out and eaten by Morlun, including a “lovely” shot of his unmasked face beaten, bruised, and with his remaining eye swollen shut, then transforms into a feral spider, apparently eats Morlun’s face, dies, and then is resurrected by shedding his own decayed corpse. What in the actual fuck.
And somehow most of this thing was rated A for All Ages. Can’t imagine how many poor, traumatized kids there were who got into Spider-Man through the Raimi movies at the time and then tried to get into the comics by reading this.