Details Only Huge Spidey Fans Know About The Villain

In an alternate future depicted in “Spider-Man: Reign” #2, New York City is subject to the Reign – a fascist police state “protecting” its citizens from “super-terrorists” and other frivolities like elected governments and freedom of the press. New York’s superheroes have been mostly eliminated or run out of town, and even Spider-Man is now old and lonely, living with the delusion that his wife Mary Jane is still alive. Of all people, it’s J. Jonah Jameson who snaps him out of his funk and gets him to fight back against the Reign’s plan to install the Webb, a latticework laser shield around the city. 

Speaking of funk, Spider-Man isn’t the only one who decides to defy the Reign. Our man Antoine, the Hypno-Hustler himself, is inspired by Spider-Man. After selling mixtapes at a small shop for years, he decides that if Spider-Man is really back, he’s going to need help — “old-school” help. Putting his “Hypno-Mix ’86” tape into his boom box, the Hypno-Hustler lives again! Proclaiming that the “Godfather of funk” is making a comeback, he demands that the Reign thugs shake it. Hilariously, the soldiers start dancing and can’t stop, as the Hypno-Hustler declares, “Tonight the whole city’s gonna dance!” 

Unfortunately for him, the Hypno-Hustler forgets to put in fresh batteries, and his boom box dies. The angry guards shoot him down, but a seed of revolution is planted. 

In an alternate future depicted in “Spider-Man: Reign” #2, New York City is subject to the Reign – a fascist police state “protecting” its citizens from “super-terrorists” and other frivolities like elected governments and freedom of the press. New York’s superheroes have been mostly eliminated or run out of town, and even Spider-Man is now old and lonely, living with the delusion that his wife Mary Jane is still alive. Of all people, it’s J. Jonah Jameson who snaps him out of his funk and gets him to fight back against the Reign’s plan to install the Webb, a latticework laser shield around the city. 

Speaking of funk, Spider-Man isn’t the only one who decides to defy the Reign. Our man Antoine, the Hypno-Hustler himself, is inspired by Spider-Man. After selling mixtapes at a small shop for years, he decides that if Spider-Man is really back, he’s going to need help — “old-school” help. Putting his “Hypno-Mix ’86” tape into his boom box, the Hypno-Hustler lives again! Proclaiming that the “Godfather of funk” is making a comeback, he demands that the Reign thugs shake it. Hilariously, the soldiers start dancing and can’t stop, as the Hypno-Hustler declares, “Tonight the whole city’s gonna dance!” 

Unfortunately for him, the Hypno-Hustler forgets to put in fresh batteries, and his boom box dies. The angry guards shoot him down, but a seed of revolution is planted.