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Spider-Man and Saturday Night Live, two great flavors that taste great together. This is what we get when Bill Hader and Seth Meyers from SNL get together to write a Spidey one-shot titled; Short Halloween
which is a pretty smart spoof of Batman: the Long Halloween. Mistaken identity is abound as Spidey is confused for a drunk guy wearing a Spider-Man costume who gets into a scrape in a bar with a couple of guys dressed as Doc Ock and the Green Goblin. The real Spidey is knocked out in battle, and Spidey dude passes out in the same garbage filled alley where Spider-dude’s friends drag the real Spider-Man home while the guys dressed as Doc Ock and the Goblin are trying to track him down.

Meanwhile, the Spider-dude finds himself captured by a new super villain group consisting of some real C-list villains like Fumes, a misguided former vacuum repairman who manages to be the one to knock out Spidey, Gossip Girl, who is just a girl with mouths on her hands and shoulders, Haymaker, who is a big burly bearded man who’s outfit is stuffed with hay, Mr. Think, the mastermind, and a loose cannon Sabretooth wannabe named Badger Teeth. The group call themselves the Furious Five, and anyone who hears this name has to crack, “like Kung-Fu Panda?” Although I think Grandmaster Flash.

So Ronnie the Spider-dude has to deal with bickering super-villains while the real Spider-Man has to deal with a bickering girlfriend and dude friends as well as angry party goers dressed as two of his arch-nemesis’. Comedic confusion ensues as both unlikely situations come to a head, and Fumes has to decide at that moment whether he really wants to be a super-villain.

This was just a one-shot issue, but I think I would enjoy a future Heder/ Meyers project.

-Jim

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