Will any of this make sense by the time the dust settles? Who can say?
Turning back the clock on Flash just in time for him to learn his hero and nemesis are the same person at least gives him something to think about, I guess. Flash as we knew him would probably be hurt by the secrecy, but proud of his friend. This jerk has some issues to work through. Well, back in the auditorium, the two latter Mysterios are making fun of each other’s costumes, har har, Komedy. Spidey shoves his boss in a closet and tells him to stay there just in time to find out Mysterio III is Francis Klum, who I suppose he knows. I dunno, I didn’t finish that awful miniseries. Then the 2 Mysterios start fighting.
Whatever.
So the new… I forgot what Arrow is already. Nurse? Councilor? The new whatever at Peter’s school just happens to have something mysterious of her own going on? Shocking. Starting to feel like we’re not gonna get a clear answer on the original Mysterio here. Well, anyway, Mysterio II has the upper hand, but Spider-Man stops him from finishing his opponent, and our hero finally decides to participate in his own comic just before the halfway point. In a mere 2 pages, he’s got Mysterio II on the ground with his fishbowl broken.
Ok, what’s this guy’s deal? I thought he just teleported. Now he’s got… what, mind control? Why didn’t that enter into ANY OF THE PRECEDING EVENTS? Elsewhere, Mysterio I tells Arrow there’s a great game going on (Probably not the Great Game), and all the pieces must be in place, and she must keep Peter Parker at this school. He continues to insinuate she knows more about what he’s saying and she continues to deny it.
I had to look it up, but I knew I knew it from somewhere in my youth. “Harvey the Wonder Hamster” is a Weird Al reference. Well, our boys find the bomb with 17 seconds on the clock, and then a noose gets Flash somehow, the voice of Mysterio III saying they’ve got to make things more challenging. But Spider-Man webs a barrel under Flash to stand on while deactivating the bomb in just 3 seconds, all while bragging about how he can outwit Klum.
Oh good grief. Is she “the Other?” I don’t know if I can handle this.
Nothing resolved! And the further we go into Civil War, the worse this is gonna get. I can say conclusively there is no time for any of this crap for the next entire year of publishing, but it sure won’t be the only thing that doesn’t fit anywhere. Absolutely absurd that 8 issues of Spider-Man comics happen between Civil War 2 and 3. But there’s really nowhere else to put them. The main series makes it pretty plain where Spider-Man is from here on out, and I frankly don’t know how the remaining issues of FNSM and SSM published during Civil War could possibly happen at all, but all six of them must take place between Civil War 6 and 7…. somehow. I guess we’ll see. And things only get worse AFTER Civil War as far as continuity. Well, next post, another issue of New Avengers which I technically don’t need to run, but am going to, anyway.