Monster of the Day #3460

Updated on August 28, 2023 By Ken Begg 3 Comments

(This is the one I meant to post last Monday but somehow forgot.)

I find this cover very relatable. “I know it’s Monday, I just don’t want to get up!”

That said, we have a holiday weekend coming up. Because, YIKES, it’s nearly September already . Good grief.

Beckoning Chasm

Since the guy on the left is clearly shooting the Spider in the head, I assume this is the last issue? In which case, spoiler alert.
Cullen Waters

I love the skeletons chillaxing in the background. Imagine the conversation they might be having:

“Man. Remember when we were the cultists wearing the fake skeleton outfits?”

“Hang on, I think I dropped my tibia again. God, I’m so drunk, I gotta hang on for balance.”

“We almost had that girl hung when the Spider came bursting in. Shot me in the face, he did, then dropped me in a vat of acid. Didn’t get my whole arm in, in too much of a hurry.”

“That’s not my tibia. Who’s tibia is that?”

“That’s the difference between the Spider and the Shadow. Shadow never does anything but the whole ten yards. He’d have gotten my whole body in the vat with plenty of time to save the girl.”

“Hey, Jake, you missing a tibia?”

“Not really.”
Eric Hinkle

I read the plot summary for this one. “The Spider faces a grim mass murderer who holds sway over Manhattan-when poisoned drugs paralyze the medical profession and turn New York’s hospitals into a hell of betrayed human sufferers!”

Given what I’ve seen of some doctors and hospitals, that story sounds all too realistic.

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