
Our minds were pretty blown yesterday when Jamie Foxx's blue-skulled Electro was revealed facing off against Spider-Man on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, one of the many splashy bits of art the magazine has debuted in advance of Comic-Con next week. Now a peek inside the magazine (via Comic Book Movie) gives us an even better look at the villain, along with a new image of Spidey in full-on web-slinging mode. Check out that one below.
Let's focus on Electro for the moment, though. The jokes about him resembling Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze in Batman & Robin have been everywhere, but there's something genuinely unnerving about Foxx's appearance here, looking somewhere between and alien and a mutant. It's obvious now why set photos have shown us pretty much nothing of his appearance, since a lot
of this look can only be accomplished through CGI (Rhys Ifans had to wear a cardboard head to play The Lizard, so really, Foxx has gotten off easy). But I can't want to see those glowing electric pulses on his forehead in action, or whatever that beeper-shaped thing embedded in his skull will do when Electro get busy destroying things.
There's also a new shot of what looks like a confrontation between Spidey and the non-electrified Electro, somewhere outdoors (though not in Times Square, where a lot of the production took place).
The new images also included a better look at Paul Giamatti's Rhino, who we saw furiously driving a car in an image tweeted by director Marc Webb back in May. He's doing the same thing in the new image, just in a sharper image. He also looks slightly less angry, even though the terrifying forehead tattoo clearly marks him as someone you don't want to tangle with.

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