Spider-Man - Friends & Enemies #01-04 Complete

Twilight, Madison Square Park. Seven alien crystals emit radiance ... seven crystals, the power to change the lives of everyone who comes into contact with them. In fact. Cool!

On the following morning. Spidey swings over. The park is full of rumors about a free concert. Conman out of the building across the street, as some fraud unsuspecting innocent of $ 30k playing cards. Politically correct racial mixing types of teens hanging out to see if the concert is happening, not now. Imagine stilted dialogue and bad graphics. You with the scene now.

"Hey", say, five children ... "You can see that strange glow?" Let's see. Conman is his accomplice, give me some of these crystals. They keep one. Then ... zwoooommmaaa ... zzoomm ... bizarre light show and everyone has super-human strength. Of course, how silly of me to not see that coming!

The concept ... they do not know about it. The lights fade, and all breaks.

New and Speedball be and act like idiots, and then leave. Then Darkhawk comes with serious work in mind. Oh no, the crystals are gone! It seems that he was the one who left them there and went to do something else. You may have thought that he dug a hole to hide gems with cosmic forces? Nah.

The next day, all holders of gems to discover their powers in silly and unconvincing ways. "These builders have so sexist, I want to start a bulldozer and flatten them. Oh, no, it really is! I was lucky that the wall stopped him. But for some reason I think I did it!" Aaaaargggh!

So that the power of the villain get nothing? The ability to control everyone else seems to. How convenient. He promises to teach innocent metahume teens ... "For the good of mankind."

Meanwhile, Spider, Speedball and Nova meet Darkhawk. Darkhawk tells them about the crystals, and the rest to find out "who were those teenagers, we overheard talking about crystals." Boy, that was lucky!