If this is beginning to seem like a bit of a Slott-heavy list, well, that's his fault. The dude's tried to shoehorn Spidey into every story he wrote before he finally got handed the keys to the kingdom, and since then he's hearkened back to all eras of the series, pulling in obscure and forgotten plots and characters. One of the lighter, more fun but definitely nerdy times he utilised Spider-Man was this single issue story from She-Hulk #4, written by Slott and drawn by Juan Bobillo, which attempts to answer a question that's been on the lips of fanboys and girls for decades: how does J Jonah Jameson get away with publishing so much libellous material on the superhero in the Daily Bugle? Why do people believe it? And why does Spidey stand for it? Well, in Web Of Lies, the wall crawler's patience finally breaks. And so he enlists the help of Jessica Walters the attorney who moonlights as She-Hulk - as his lawyer in a case against Jameson and the Bugle. In the end it is, of course, a complete shambles (how can a guy wearing a mask be allowed to testify in court, anyhow? How do we know if it's the real Spider-Man?), and eventually it all falls apart when Spidey and She-Hulk have to team up to go punch a supervillain, but before all that's it's a fun, witty take on some meta-silliness about the character, drawn with an rubbery, cartoony look by Bobillo and with Slott dropping in a bunch of references to old stories.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
