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1.0 out of 5 stars
A Look Back in Torment, Jan 20 2004
Wow.I hadn't read TORMENT since it's initial five issue run in 1990. Having just re-read it, some 13+ years later, all I can say is: Wow. Well, that's not ALL I can say, but MAN... wow. That was bad. I didn't notice how bad it was back then. Probably because I was 15 and, like everyone else, caught up in the wheels of the hype machine. Whatever the case, time and a bit of maturation have revealed TORMENT to be abysmal on nearly every level. Art? It's McFarlane in all of his palsied-lines, silly-putty-faced character, pointy-footed Spidey glory. Story? Little to none-- all of which could have been told in 2 issues. Like the DOOM-DOOM-DOOM found on nearly every page, the events in torment are a nightmare of repetition: Spidey fights the Lizard, who is "unholy" and mad with bloodlust, MJ pines for Peter, Spidey fights the Lizard, MJ dances, Spidey's costume gets shredded, and so on, etc. For five issues. With lots of exclamation points. And a sea of captions. And unintentionally hilarious lines such as: "Like some blood-crazed vampire, the Lizard means to rip out the Spider's jugular." Oh, well. It's Todd's first foray into writing, so I should probably cut him some slack. DOOM-DOOM-DOOM (For a well-written and intelligent take on the same material, read the story that inspired this mess: KRAVEN'S LAST HUNT, the antithesis of this book in every way.)
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by Steve Ditko
by Jim Starlin
by Gardner Fox
by Marc Silvestri
