Spider-Man: Gang War kicks off with one shocking moment and an absolute soap opera of a power struggle among Spidey's villains
As of November 29's Amazing Spider-Man: Gang War First Strike #1, the Marvel Universe has erupted in a massive turf war among the many criminal factions of New York City, and all comes down to a single brutal moment that kicks it all off.
And while we're not sure exactly where things will end up when the dust clears, what's very apparent from the moment Marvel's Gang War crossover kicks off is that New York City is about to become a powder keg of violence that's been waiting to explode for some time.
The bulk of Amazing Spider-Man Gang War: First Strike #1 by writers Al Ewing and Cody Ziglar, artists Joey Vasquez and Julian Shaw, color artist Bryan Valenza, and letterer Joe Caramagna, deals with the follow up of the recent hit on Tombstone which took place at his daughter Janice Lincoln's wedding to Randy Robertson, son of Peter Parker's longtime friend and ally Robbie Robertson.
As Tombstone lays dying in a hospital bed, Hammerhead, New York's boss of bosses, calls a meeting of the city's many crime lords to discuss what's going to happen to Tombstone's Harlem territory. While the gangsters negotiate, Janice shows up in her costume as the Beetle, the latest incarnation of the classic Spider-Man villain, demanding to be given her father's seat.
Hammerhead agrees to give her her father's territory - if she's willing to kill her ex-fiance Randy Robertson, who is leading the charge to repeal current laws on the books in the Marvel Universe which make it illegal for vigilante superheroes to operate in New York City.
Janice, as the Beetle, attacks Randy just as he's about to give a speech calling for the repeal of the laws that make superheroes illegal, telling him that she was ordered to kill him and that he has to run.
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