Day 6 - The Thousand - ‘Prince with a thousand enemies…’ I love the eerie feel of the lapine culture of Watership Down ❤️✨
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This open edition high quality lustre photo print (a reproduction) was printed from the digital painting ''Prince with a Thousand Enemies''.
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Spider-Man has had many unique and colorful villains over the year, enough to rival even the likes of Batman in terms of the greatest rogue gallery in all of comics. You’ve got the classics like Doc Ock and Green Goblin, you have ones who were good for one story like Kraven, and you have the greatest villains ever like Big Wheel and The Wall. And this level of memorability even extends to his one-shot foes, like The Thousand.
Once one of Peter Parker’s biggest bullies, Carl King saw the accident that gave Peter his powers. Watching as he became a beloved hero, his envy grew to the point he broke into the lab where the spider that bit Peter was being held and ate it. He soon had his body undergo a transformation into a colony of murderous spiders that can take over and liquefy a person’s insides and then wear their skin like a suit, something he openly admits he frequently does to children and the homeless.
Jesus, that’s fucking dark. What sort of sick, twisted mind could conceive of such a villain?
Ugh. Well, let’s see if we’re working with Preacher-level Ennis or The Boys-level Ennis here.
Motivation/Goals: Carl King is another villain who is just a hater, but he takes it to the next level by being utterly narcissistic in his hate. He was a schoolyard bully as a kid, picking on poor, pitiful Peter Parker, until fate decided to give Pete spider powers. From there, King became incredibly envious of Peter getting the love, fame, and adoration he felt he was owed. Over years and years he waited, gathering strength so he could eventually get close to Peter and take over his body. It’s a simple motivation, but it works, and the ultimate goal is as unnerving as anything.
Final Fate: During his fight with Spidey, he gets tricked into punching an electrical box and is zapped like the bug he is, careening off the edge of a building to what I’m sure Peter presumes is his death.
But wait! Oh no, King survived!
His narration shows he’s as vengeful as ever, surely this is the beginning of a horrific and bitter feud betw-
Oh. He’s just fucking dead, huh?
We get a mere three issues with this grotesque, disturbing concept and then it’s all taken away by some dude’s shoe.
Most Fucked Up Scene: Hey Garth, I don’t think we’re sure that King is a truly irredeemable monster yet. Think you could maybe throw in some fucked up sex and also maybe demonize homosexuality a little bit?
Yeah, thanks for that.
Final Thoughts & Score: I don’t like The Thousand, and boy is that a fucking shame because this entire concept is genuinely really cool. Like, an evil spider colony that wears people like skin suits and dissolves their insides, kind of like Edgar the Bug from Men In Black? It’s gnarly and creepy, and The Thousand does have a pretty cool design to boot. But… it just doesn’t sit right with me. Like, we have a villain here who eats people from the inside out, hollows out their skin, did this to their mom, fucked their dad and then did it to him, and just in general acts like a creepy asshole… and he’s fighting Spider-Man. It’s just so… edgy. But I should’ve expected this from Ennis, huh?
Honestly, it is interesting how King seems to be something of a stand in for Ennis. He’s a sad, miserable edgelord who revels in being depraved and edgy, and is extremely bitter that there’s a cool and well-loved superhero who is getting attention he feels he’s owed. This kind of mirrors how Ennis hates superheroes because he feels they hijacked and overtook a once-diverse medium like comics and turned it into something far more uniform and lacking in variety. I doubt this was an intentional thing at all, I don’t think Ennis is that self-aware, but I did find this read of King to make him a bit more interesting.
I kind of want to be clear here: I don’t think The Thousand is bad. I have very mixed feelings and don’t personally like it, but I don’t think it’s a bad villain by any means. As far as a one shot villain goes, it’s pretty hard to forget. I genuinely can’t pinpoint what my problem is. I don’t necessarily think anything he did is wildly out of place in a Spidey story, and it’s not how edgy The Thousand is as a concept and in practice, because Carnage exists and nothing can out-edge him and I have zero issues with his existence as a Spidey foe. I think maybe the issue here is that we’re thrown this new character who has beef with Peter and we only get three issues of development before he’s unceremoniously killed, putting the kibosh on any future storylines (theoretically; you know how comics are with bringing people back). Maybe I’m just frustrated that an interesting concept was wasted, though I don’t know how you could keep this guy around realistically.
If I’m being completely honest here, I think it really comes down to the guy who created him. Ennis is at his best when he’s playing in a world of his own creation like Preacher, or messing around with Frank Castle in an isolated setting. Him touching other heroes… Eh. Even when he’s not openly disdainful, you can kind of feel something off. The art isn’t helping here, because the humans in this comic look almost as nasty as the mutant evil spider creature. Ultimately I think a very generous 6.5/10 is what I’ll give him. I think the Ennis-isms of the comic itself kind of hold him back, as does his premature death, but as a villain The Thousand is a very interesting idea relegated to a mere one-shot. They can’t all be winners, I guess.
So has no one realized Spiders-Man is based on a villain called “The Thousand”
He was a childhood bully of Peter Parker who ate the spider that bit Peter, but instead of gaining the same powers he turned into a hive of spiders that devour someone’s insides and wear their body like a suit.
The guy’s first victim was his mother, and then he took over his dad’s body while said dad was having sex with what he though was his wife.
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I wonder if Spiders Man is supposed to be a reference to The Thousand. Given that he too is a mass of spiders pretending to be people. Although given that he's a villain the method used is to enter people's throats and eat them from inside and wear the skin as a costume.
I thought about that too. Carl King became the Thousand after he ate the spider that gave Peter his powers so maybe, on Earth-11580, Peter ate the spider instead for some reason. King was also already a dick so maybe Peter’s better nature led to a less villainous Spiders-Man?
I’m not sure if, based on the one issue he’s been in, we’re supposed to interpret Spiders-Man as being hungry but well-meaning bunch of spiders or just trying to (poorly) hide a more evil nature? I hope it’s the former.
I guess we’ll have to find out in future issues. He’s going to be the focus of one of the stories in the upcoming Spider-Geddon tie-in Vault of Spiders #2 this week!
Currently listening to my girlfriend lose her shit after we discovered Spider-Man has fought a sentient swarm of nazi bees and a swarm of sentient spiders that have the consciousness of one of Peter’s high school bullies.
