Episode 196 – Amazing Spider-Man: Shed

The Comics Canon

(Note:You may just ever-so-faintly hear a neighbor's barking dog occasionally adding his two cents in the background for the first half or so of the episode.)

A perennial Spider-Man foe gets a horror-monster makeover (and our Spidey Super Stories miniseries concludes) with 2010’s Shed from Amazing Spider-Man #630-633, by Zeb Wells, Chris Bachalo and Emma Rios, published by Marvel Comics!

After a long struggle, scientist Curt Connors loses control of his scaly alter-ego, the Lizard, who’s clearly been working out during the offseason! The reptilian rogue immediately embarks on a killing spree, and Connors’ young son Billy is his next target!

Can Ol’ Web-Head keep this cold-blooded criminal from turning all of New York into a mindless horde of murderous, lizard-brained zombies? And can he tip the scales in favor of inclusion in that tangled web known as ... The Comics Canon?

In This Episode:

· Spidey’s relationship with Catwom—we mean, the Black Cat

· The true villains of this story

· Six Degrees of Peter Parker

· Beef on Netflix

· Why Curt’s interested in the Thunderbolts movie

· Amazing Spider-Man #44-45: “Where Crawls the Lizard!” and “Spidey Smashes Out!”

· Amazing Spider-Man: Civil War

· Becoming Superman, by J. Michael Straczynski

Join us in two weeks as we return to Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing: American Gothic arc with a look at Swamp Thing #46-50!

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