Espiderman #3
Background
Enrique V. Vegas is a bit of an alt-comics star in Spain. Starting in the early 2000's, he released various runs of parody comics, featuring a drawing style he calls "Cabezona" (Big-Head). The early books predominantly spoofed Marvel characters, but he has recently stretched further afield into DC and other pop-culture icons.
This five-party Spider-Man parody "Es-Piderman" (later "Espiderman") was released every couple of years over the course of nearly a decade from 2002 to 2011. It is available in the original Spanish, and in a 2011 Italian translation – Speederman.
Let's load up Google Translate once more, and see what new adventures await our Hispano-Hablante Arachnid Amigo in issue #3.
Story Details
Espiderman #3
| Publisher: | Linea Siurell |
| Writer: | Enrique V. Vegas |
| Artist: | Enrique V. Vegas |
| Cover Colorist: | Juan M. Vicente |
| Reprinted In: | Espiderman (Collected Edition) |
| Reprinted In: | Speederman #3 |
We open above the sky-scrapers of New York, as Spider-Man patrols the city once more - driven by his desire for justice, his love of liberty, and his steady supply of licorice. Although from a heroic point of view, he has somewhat lost the limelight. Strangely, the Daily Bugle has decided that Venom is the new champion of the city. Yeah, that makes no sense to me either. Maybe we'll get an explanation later.
Anyhow, this is Manhattan and a good super-heroic fight is never far away in the Big Apple. So it's a matter of a mere panel or two before Spidey stumbles across the Avengers fighting a giant robot. Oh, correction. This is one of those giant robots from the "The Incredibles" movie (2004), and Mr. Incredible himself is part of the battle. This comic is 2005, so this is a "topical reference".
Thor has snapped his hammer, and things aren't going well. Spidey leaps in to the battle, web-tangles the robot to the ground, and removes the distributor with his handy screwdriver, as per the instructions in his "Home Mechanics" magazine. *Bzzzz*
Hmm... a pesky fly. *Bzzz*. SPLAT! With spider-speed, Spidey squashes the... oops. Spider-Man has squashed "Wasp", beloved member of the Avengers. An unfortunate (yet perhaps inevitable) tragedy.