In Death is not the End, we spotlight the outlandish explanations for comic book characters (mostly super-villains) surviving seeming certain death. Today, we look at the so far inexplicable resurrection of Chameleon after taking the same path as Gwen Stacy off of a bridge in front of Spider-Man.I’ll be frank, there are a number of times when a character’s resurrection is as simple as the comic book equivalent of “Somehow Palpatine returned.” In other words, the comic book writers will take advantage of the very nature of fake comic book deaths to say, “Well, I guess that happened here, as well,” without explaining HOW. This reminds me of the early days of the Joker. You see, when the Joker first debuted, he would end nearly every appearance seemingly dying, usually falling to his death, but then the next appearance would have a bit in the beginning explaining how he survived. This happened frequently enough that eventually, writer Bill Finger just stopped bothering with the explanations, and just bringing the Joker back (luckily, around that same point in time, they also stopped killing the Joker off at the end of every story, and he was instead simply arrested…before escaping ahead of his next appearance, and yes, after briefly showing how he escaped each time, they eventually just had him show up out of prison at the start of each story).Nowadays, we know Sean Phillips mostly from his amazing collaborations with Ed Brubaker, but Phillips, of course, has had two other very notable collaborators on multiple projects, Joe Casey (on Wildcats and Uncanny X-Men) and Paul Jenkins (on Hellblazer and, well, this story). Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man was initially an attempt to do a Legends of the Dark Knight-style book for Spider-Man, but sometimes, the stories would be set in the regular continuity, like this story, where Chameleon, having discovered Peter Parker’s secret identity, lures him to the bridge where Gwen Stacy was killed with apparently Mary Jane being held hostage (Mary Jane had recently beaten up the Chamelon when he tried to impersonate Peter at their home)…
In Death is not the End, we spotlight the outlandish explanations for comic book characters (mostly super-villains) surviving seeming certain death. Today, we look at the so far inexplicable resurrection of Chameleon after taking the same path as Gwen Stacy off of a bridge in front of Spider-Man.
I’ll be frank, there are a number of times when a character’s resurrection is as simple as the comic book equivalent of “Somehow Palpatine returned.” In other words, the comic book writers will take advantage of the very nature of fake comic book deaths to say, “Well, I guess that happened here, as well,” without explaining HOW. This reminds me of the early days of the Joker. You see, when the Joker first debuted, he would end nearly every appearance seemingly dying, usually falling to his death, but then the next appearance would have a bit in the beginning explaining how he survived. This happened frequently enough that eventually, writer Bill Finger just stopped bothering with the explanations, and just bringing the Joker back (luckily, around that same point in time, they also stopped killing the Joker off at the end of every story, and he was instead simply arrested…before escaping ahead of his next appearance, and yes, after briefly showing how he escaped each time, they eventually just had him show up out of prison at the start of each story).
Nowadays, we know Sean Phillips mostly from his amazing collaborations with Ed Brubaker, but Phillips, of course, has had two other very notable collaborators on multiple projects, Joe Casey (on Wildcats and Uncanny X-Men) and Paul Jenkins (on Hellblazer and, well, this story). Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man was initially an attempt to do a Legends of the Dark Knight-style book for Spider-Man, but sometimes, the stories would be set in the regular continuity, like this story, where Chameleon, having discovered Peter Parker’s secret identity, lures him to the bridge where Gwen Stacy was killed with apparently Mary Jane being held hostage (Mary Jane had recently beaten up the Chamelon when he tried to impersonate Peter at their home)…
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