Today’s post is part of an occasional series where I try to highlight
the visual
or narrative
symmetry between the Spider-Man
and Spider-Girl
comics. For this entry, I wanted to demonstrate an example of not just homage but
reverence from Spidey artists Ron Frenz and Sal Buscema.
I’ve briefly touched on Amazing Spider-Man #199 (which
has the unlikely pair of Mysterio
and the Burglar) while discussing the Parker
Family Home but I failed to mention it is features the guest pencils of
‘Our Pal’ Sal Buscema, an unsung icon, stalwart professional and
fixture of the Spider-Mythos across his storied career. After decades working
on various Spidey titles, Sal eventually became the permanent
inker for the various Spider-Girl titles.
Here's where we come to the Spider-Symmetry part of
the post, because penciller Ron Frenz loves to sneak in various homages
and references to past Spider-Man artists and issues. For Spectacular
Spider-Girl (vol.1) #6 (as it was initially released digitally before being
printed in the pages of Web of Spider-Man (vol. 2) #2) Mr Frenz recreated
a few panels of Sal’s work from Amazing Spider-Man #199,
evidently knowing full well he’d be inking it!
Until I run out of examples of exactly this kind of deep
comic knowledge and appreciation, I remain
frogoat
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