MADness #33- Spider-Man 2!

We continue our relentless crawl through my work at MAD Magazine with yet another Spider-Man movie parody… this time it’s “Spider-Man 2” again written by Dick DeBartolo and first appearing in MAD #446, October 2004. This particular parody is rare in that for some reason I scanned in ALL the final pencils and saved those files. Since I have no “roughs” from this job, I have to assume I skipped that step and went right to the final pencils to show MAD for approval. I don’t remember why, but that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. I’ll post the full pencils after the regular pages.

The one thing I remember about this particular job was trying to sneak a gag past the MAD editors on this splash page. Now that I look back on it, I don’t think this was a gag that they would have had a problem with, so I am not sure why I felt I was being sneaky in getting it past them. The gag is where the webbing is coming out of Spidey:

Not all that subversive. Regardless they didn’t say anything to it was part of the splash. Here are the story pages:

Here are the pencils. When I say “final pencils” what I mean is drawn at original art size (200% of print size) on the boards that I will ink on. These pages are big… about 16.5″ x 21.5″, with the splash two pages taped together. After approvals I would ink directly on these boards over the pencils, then erase the pencil lines when done inking:

Stay tooned next week for another heart-racing episode featuring a TV show parody written by a MAD editor!