{"id":10161,"date":"2021-08-18T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=10161"},"modified":"2020-07-07T18:37:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T22:37:33","slug":"sm-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/08\/18\/sm-76\/","title":{"rendered":"SM 76"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now here\u2019s a weird one. One of the few issues I really remember from this period. It begins with an extended flashback in JRJR\u2019s unique style:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Fields family hid in a warehouse, and the doc gave his notes to his wife to deliver to a Sydney Lanning. He got them out of the building just in time for them to avoid being caught in a massive explosion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pretty weird stuff. In the present, in a another horizontal 2-page spread, Peter wakes up MJ way too late for their meetings at ESU for going back to college, and they scramble through their morning and out the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So much of Peter & MJ\u2019s marriage was characterized by strife and sorrow. It\u2019s fun to see them just living. At The Bugle, Peter runs into Flash Thompson in the lobby, and they take an elevator up together. Flash asks if Pete\u2019s heard Gwen\u2019s uncle is in town. Pete says he has, but they\u2019ve  not met and he\u2019s not eager to. When the elevator opens, Betty is there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that\u2019s convenient. But, honestly. Bugle stuff. Flash and Betty. Even the ominous and ultimately pointless spectre of Arthur Stacy. All this feels more like a Spider-Man comic than the last 3, 4 years\u2019 worth of book, in this period. Even Peter\u2019s rather tired return to school is welcome, at this point, compared to the mountain of crap that came before it. MJ\u2019s having trouble getting her transcripts when someone off-panel calls out her name and surprises her. But we cut back to Peter & Neil walking and talking. Pete says Neil\u2019s grades are very impressive and wonders why he needs tutoring. He says he wants to get on Lannig\u2019s project, too, and for quantum mechanics, he was told Peter is the man. Um\u2026 how? Two time dropout Peter Parker is the man in bleeding edge science? Who says? Then they see a big purple explosion from the lab they\u2019re headed to. Peter tells Neil to go get help, and Neil rather amusingly says \u201cYOU go get help,\u201d so Spider-Man is not present as they enter the building to find\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter clotheslines his pursuer, finding him to be a flesh & blood dude instead of some monster. Crown says he won\u2019t let them shut down the generator \u2018til he gets Fields\u2019 notes, and demonstrates his weird gun on someone who tries to shut it off, anyway, hitting them with some kinda purple radiation and calling it a preview of what\u2019s in store. That\u2019s when Spider-Man shows up. Crown is very upset about the presence of a superhero, but he\u2019s not yet begun to get mad, because a 2nd one shows up. Not one we know, tho. It\u2019s the guy on the cover, SHOC. Crown recognizes him, and gets even more upset. SHOC calls Crown\u2019s goons \u201cLame-o\u2019s,\u201d which makes Crown say this isn\u2019t the SHOC he knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is pretty awkward stuff, dumping us into this running battle between characters pretending they\u2019ve been around for years. Also, how does Spidey know SHOC is an acronym? Is Crown saying S-H-O-C? Spidey hits Crown with the ol\u2019 wbe in the face so SHOC can try to shut down the generator. He finds out SHOC\u2019s suit is \u201cpart of him\u201d as SHOC starts absorbing the energies of the generator. SHOC also tells him he\u2019s rendered the generator a portal back to where Crown and his goons came from, and tells Spidey to chuck them in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jill. Stacy. What a terrible idea! What possible purpose could she even serve? Answer: Very little! And, obviously, we know Neil is SHOC and that\u2019s why he\u2019s so keen to be on Lanning\u2019s project. Spidey is tutoring a superhero. An interesting design on him. Very representative of its creator. We\u2019ll obviously see him again. And also more of Jill Stacy, for better or worse…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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