review by jamal chaklader

heroes: Spider-Man

villains: Rhino, Rocket Racer, Gibbon

others: Rhino's Scientists, Simian, Romeo, Stella Pavlov

the plot: It starts out the Rhino being blindfolded and led into the maze with the scientist. The scientist asks him to go back where he started. Rhino doesn't know where to go. He says use your head. So Rhino does and pummels through all the walls. Rhino has to read newspapers everyday and look up words in the dictionary but is still crazy about Stella. One day he goes around and looks at simian (the monkey). Simian is depressed and broke everyone of his CD's.

Finally he goes to see if Stella was all right because he left her with no bodyguard. He crashes through the wall and finds that stella is alright and she is engaged to Romeo. Romeo screams at Rhino but mixes up words: inferred and Imply a common mistake Rhino corrects. Stella is charmed. Romeo sends stella out of the room and tells rhino the only way to save her is to make a hit at a restaurant. So Rhino runs there. Then Romeo sets up Rhino by calling the cops, and tips off Spider-Man that he is going there. Stella gets mad at Romeo, hits him with a book and runs of to Rhino. Spider-Man is waiting for stupid Rhino. he sets up a simple trap like always but this time Rhino doesn't fall for it. He hits Spidey with his horn and knocks him out, a photographer getting it all. Rhino sets the place on fire and it was going to blow. Stella runs to Rhino and hugs him. At that time Romeo tries to drive his car into rhino but Rhino smacks it away. Anyway the building is about to blow, and spider-man asks stella to grab his webbing and come up. Then Romeo gets in another car and tells his fiance to come in the car to drive away. Stella faced with two good choices hangs onto Rhino instead.

The next day the Paper reads "Horn free on Rhino knocking out Spider-Man". The Gibbon and Rocket Racer are reading in disbelief. Then Rhino comes into their Jail cell and offers them to work for him. They accept. One month later Rhino owns a rich apartment with the best bands and looks more like Kingpin. Stella is his girlfriend and he already wrote a novel. When he was reviewing a Hamlet play Stella tells him that one of scientists would like to see him in the lab the next day. When he gets there he finds out that Simian commited suicide. When rhino asked whats wrong, the scientist explains he got smarter, eventually getting too smart for his own good. Rhino laughs, thinking how anyone can get too smart for his own good.

Later probably a month, Stella is screaming at Rhino and saying if he still has any feelings for her. Rhino laughs and says Love is stupid (in a smart way). Stella goes back to Romeo. Rhino then just figures out that was stupid and he is getting too smart. He goes on a rooftop and calls Spider-Man (at that time he got so smart he called a hearing in courts and made a court order that Spider-Man couldn't go near the Rhino). He gave Spider-Man two discs with detailed life of his criminal career told him he could do whatever he wanted with them. He then went on the same bridge last issue when he was thinking about suicide. He thought about dying again then another thought popped into his head. He went back into the laborotory and asked the scientists to be dumb again. They obliged. Later Rhino broke through a wall, and I guess killed romeo who was then married to Stella.

The End

the review: Nice read not all like Flowers for Algernon. I got kinda mad that Stella gets married to Romeo. In my opinion Romeo was a jerk. I liked seeing Rhino kick spideys butt too. This issue was great.

story: 8.5 out of 10

art: 8 out of 10

significance: 10 out of 10

overall: 8 out of 10

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