FW Team-Up: Spider-Man and the Wasp

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1. Another fine episode. I didn’t realize how each issue would set up the next. It’s as if this run of issues all take place in the span of 2 hours.

   I’ve had the next issue ever since I was a kid. And it was one of my favorites with [redacted] as the villain. I re-read it so many times and hope the story holds up 50 years later.

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   1. I especially like when [redacted] puts a [redacted] around Spider-Man’s [redacted]!

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2. You mentioned at one point that Equinox was projecting the “wrong” kind of energy from his hands (fire while icy, I think) but IIRC Byrne was consistent about drawing him that way. When his hands are fire, he’s projecting ice, and when they’re ice, he projects fire. Makes for a better visual due to the contrast, and nothing about his powers makes much sense if you stop to think about them too closely anyway.

   Always (well, since age 11 anyway) thought Equinox was a really nifty character design, although he must be kind of a nightmare for an artist to remember to switch his ice/fire “halves” regularly and keep the sequencing straight. I don’t think he’s ever been animated, but it would be interesting to see how they’d tackle that. You don’t have panel breaks to conceal the switches, so how do you handle that on screen? Probably wouldn’t look right to have him just stutter back and forth rapidly between the two forms on-camera, so do you try to use camera cuts to hide him changing? Or show the transformations but slow down the pace so it doesn’t wind up looking silly? Probably some combination of the two, but it seems tricky enough that the poor guy may never wind up in a cartoon so we can see how it actually looks.

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