The Green Goblin has a plan for revenge…and it involves a lot of ranting. (of course)
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Graham: The Green Goblin’s back and he has a revenge plot on Peter Parker. Find out all about it as we take a look at Spider-Man: Revenge of the Green Goblin, straight ahead.

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Graham:The latest trade paperback collection of Revenge of the Green Goblin, a story line from 2001, collects not just the 3-issue mini-series as well as the 2 issues of Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker Spider-Man but the rest of Howard Mackie's run on the title from Amazing Spider-Man 20-29 along with Peter Parker Spider-Man number 29. So, this book also fills the gap for trades for that period between the next chapter trades and the start of G.M.'s run on Amazing Spider-Man. Issue 20 and 21 is a Spider-Slayer story and it's kind of a classic, traditional story, pretty well done actually with Alistair Smythe out of the wheelchair and back for vengeance on Jameson and blackmailing him on how he's running Spider-Man coverage in the Daily Bugle. Now, why he's doing it this way, I'm not entirely certain but there's a trap set for Spider-Man and for him to be followed by the latest incarnation of the Spider-Slayers. I should note that at this time in Spidey history, Mary Jane is believed to have died in a plane crash and Peter has moved in with roommates including Robbie Robinson’s son, Gloria Grant and Jill Stacy, the cousin of Gwen Stacy. Anyway, once these Slayers are activated, they are going to go after anyone who Spidey cares about. So, he's got to disarm them, stop them and eventually find a way to defeat the Slayers. It's not the most innovative plot in the world but it works well enough.
Issues 22 through 24 is The Distinguished Gentleman from New York and this goes to a point where the senator from New York is actually a dangerous traitor to the country, who is planning to use a plague in an effort to take over the world, eventually, but first he kidnaps the venom symbiote and Eddie Brock is mad at Spider-Man because even though Spider-Man pledged to leave him alone, his wife jumped out of a building and he blames Spidey for that. But after kidnapping the venom symbiote,
Ward just lets it go and tells it it can find its way back to Eddie Brock if it wants and so the symbiote crawls away, which is kind of an odd way for this to work, you know, crawling all the way across New York City but regardless, for whatever reason, Ward kidnapped it and it was included in the story, that was resolved and so you have this situation where Arthur Stacy, Gwen’s uncle and Captain George Stacy's brother is really set on stopping and destroying Senator Ward because he was a traitor and he believes him to be the most dangerous man in the country and he actually begs his kids to leave town and his son actually says, “All this conspiracy nonsense is kind of what's hurt our relationships”, but it turns out he's actually right and you do have a really major threat for Spidey to deal with and it's nice for him to have a battle where this scale is threats to him, to his loved ones and eventually to everyone in New York City and the country.
The plot is a bit nonsensical when it comes to the science of this and how diseases spread and how antidotes are spread. You know, for something written in 2001, it's a little bit unsophisticated in that regards but again it's not a bad story.
Then we get into the Revenge of the Green Goblin mini-series and it's written by Roger Stern, who was a legendary writer in Spider-Man back in the 80s and it reveals just how crazy Norman Osborn has gone and his hate for Spider-M...