Hey Marvel fans, my name is Ryan, a.k.a.
Agent M-- yes, I'm a secret agent--
and I have a very special mission which is not so secret.
It is to read with you a very fun
Spider-Man story called Marvel Superhero
Adventures Web Designers.
The story is called "Don't Get Mad."
It's part 1, let's dive right into it.
The story opens up, we see Spider-Man
and he has just webbed up Green Goblin,
Hobgoblin, and Jack O'Lantern.
There's TVs playing to the side of them.
The caption's where Spidey's thoughts begin.
"Know what you get when the Green
Goblin, Hobgoblin, and Jack O'Lantern all attack at once?
A whole lot of gliders and pumpkin bombs.
Not to mention aches, pains, and a major case of exhaustion."
Spidey yawns-- every time I look at this
panel I get really tired--
says, "all I want now is a relaxing warm
bath and a long nap."
He starts to swing away, when his spider-sense goes off.
He thinks, "Whoops!
No rest for the weary!
My spider-senses is signaling danger.
I don't see anyth--" and then the whole place
starts rumbling.
He says, "Wha--?
An earthquake?!
But New York doesn't have earthquakes!"
And then we see the Shocker show up.
He says, "Not unless you're getting rocked by the Shocker!"
Spidey says, "Oh.
No offense, Shockie, but after a gaggle of Goblins,
I'm kind of glad that I'm just up
against your vibration powers!
Plus, not a lot of bad guys can pull off
a costume made from a quilt."
Then, out of nowhere, he hears, "Ssspider-Man!"
Spider turns around-- "The Lizard, too?
What is this, National Gang Up on Wall-Crawlers Day?"
Spidey dodges.
He thinks, "With the Lizard in the mix,
this just got a lot more dangerous!"
He hears, from off-panel "Spider-Man!"
Spidey thinks, "And there's someone else, too?
Whew, it's just the TV."
Behind him TVs are broadcasting, and he hears, "We're here
with Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson, who
has concrete proof that the hero known as Spider-Man
is actually insane."
Jonah continues, "That's right!
The Daily Bugle hired a bunch of overpaid psychiatrists
who all concluded that Spider-Man's nuts!
Of course the wall-crawler's crazy.
Why else would he dress like that?"
Spidey thinks, "Just what I needed--
Jolly Jonah claiming I'm crazy.
As if I don't already have my hands full with--"
[SUSPENSEFUL NOTE]
"The Lizard and the Shocker!
I must be exhausted!
I got so distracted, I almost forgot about--"
he's very confused.
He turns around, he says, "where'd they go?"
They're gone.
He opens up the sewer.
He says, "They could have ducked into the sewer,
but why would Liz and the Shocker be together, anyway?
What would make those two team up?"
And he hears, "Not what, but who!
All criminals obey when the Crime Master commands!"
We get to see see Crime Master, flanked
by a couple of his cronies.
Crime Master says, "Allow me to demonstrate.
Enforcers-- attack!"
Spidey says, "So you're behind this, Crime Master?
In that case--
Nothing-- not Ox's strength-- or Montana's rope tricks--
or Fancy Dan's martial arts moves--
is going to stop me from putting an end to this madness!"
Guys, I really love Fancy Dan.
Crime master starts to fade away.
And Spidey goes after him but Crime Master says, "An end?
My dear Spider-Man."
Spidey is trying to get through to Crime
Master and he says, "My hands--
passing through you like a ghost!"
"The madness has only just begun!"
All the while, Crime Master is laughing evilly--
ha ha ha ha ha ha.
That's my best evil laugh.
Spider-Man says, "It's not possible!
They can't just disappear!
B-but there's no trace--
of any of them!
I-- I couldn't have imagined it all.
Could I?"
Spidey, thinking about that, is taken off-guard--
[BOOM]
--because someone knocks into him.
The Rhino says, "Does this feel like your imagination?"
Spidey says, "The Rhino!
At last-- a villain I can touch!"
Can't even do that because from the other side
comes with another bad guy, who says, "Yeah,
and we can touch you!
Or didja forget the steel-plated power
of yer old 'pa' Hammerhead?"
Spidey gets knocked senseless, while off to the side--
"spakowww"-- he gets hit into a newsstand,
newspapers and magazines flying everywhere.
Spidey, looking very upset, says, "No, I didn't forget,
but I would like to forget this day ever happened."
The newspaper actually says, "Is The Web-Head Whacked?"
Spidey, trying to figure out what's going on,
stands up with a newspaper in hand.
He thinks, "Let's go, Spidey--
shake it off!
No matter how tired I am, I can't just lie down and quit!"
He thinks, "Well, at least Rhino and Hammerhead
didn't vanish like the others!"
as Rhino and Hammerhead run off, away from the fight.
Spidey thwips a web and he thinks, "But they are getting
away, unless I can catch--"
As Spidey is in the air, he is confronted
by a giant green dragon who says,
"What mortal dares disturb the slumber of Fin Fang Foom?"
I can't help but get into a Fin Fang Foo voice,
he's one of my favorite characters.
Look-- even got a statue of him right here.
Anyway, Spidey is freaked out at this point.
He thinks, "A dragon?!
The whole world's gone crazy!"
As he's thinking that, things get really weird.
Another dude says, "Crazy, eh?
Lemme tell ya, I know a thing or two about crazy!"
This guy is on a unicycle, and he's juggling,
and he looks like a clown.
Next panel, two dudes flipping and swinging in say, "Crazy!"
"Crazy!"
Spidey says, "What are you doing?
Has everybody gone insane?"
Spidey, behind him, hears, "Careful, Spider-Man!
If you think everyone's insane, the real insane one
might be you!"
And Spidey says, "I dunno, Ringmaster,
if your Circus of Crime keeps coming
after me much longer, I might wind up agreeing with you!
Then again, why would I think you're
crazy just because you're shooting people at me?"
He says as he dodges a dude who looks like a human,
I don't know, like a bullet of some sort.
Spidey then leaps out of the way and says, "Eep.
And snakes.
Why'd it have to be snakes?"
Which is a great reference you will
appreciate as you get older.
Finally, Spidey needs to clear his head.
Thwips up a web, he starts to swing away
when he hears, "Oh, you have worse things
to worry about than snakes.
Far worse."
This is said by Thanos, who's just hanging
out with the other bad guys--
Loki, Carnage, Venom, and Red Skull.
We end with up-close on Spidey who just says, "Uh-oh."
Which is classic Spider-Man.
[CALYPSO MUSIC]
Thanks for watching Marvel Read with me.
Stay tuned for part two.