{"id":11836,"date":"2022-01-18T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=11836"},"modified":"2020-12-14T16:30:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T20:30:30","slug":"mtu-051","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/01\/18\/mtu-051\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU 051"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the 77. Various reasons have made me take 6 days to read this 4-parter, and it\u2019s begun to feel like it\u2019s dragged on too long. The days where I didn\u2019t read one certainly didn\u2019t help, I can\u2019t really say. Anyway, this looks bad. It\u2019s hard to even see this is meant to be a courtroom at first. If you wanna see the weirdest trial of all time, well, look no further than page one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Parker & JJJ are on hand to cover the trial, which is turning into a circus before it even starts. Also, Jean DeWolff has called another mysterious favor from Nick Fury to get futuristic computer gear in the room so people can testify from a distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Woof, the art on this is clearly a rush job. Never in life has Sal Buscema\u2019s art looked like Herb Trimpe\u2019s\u2026 until now.  Peter has had to storm out so Spider-Man can get involved. And a good thing, too, because the elder DeWolff has figured out the \u201calpha jammer\u201d isn\u2019t affecting his brain\u2019s delta waves, so he can control the technician monitoring and make him turn it off. Ok! Thusly freed, he begins taking control of Brian again, and things get the way things go in comics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mantlo has done a \u201cjust that lil\u2019 ol _____ me\u201d bit in at least 3 issues in a row here. Spidey flips over and lands on his feet while making a reference to \u201cthe newest lady Avenger\u201d so a footnote can say that\u2019s Hellcat. Then Nick Fury appears on one of the screens, and a footnote tells us they met in MTU 13. Also, earlier, a footnote told us one of the lawyers on hand also works for The Defenders. This issue is rife with footnotes, for some reason. Anyway, Spidey is able to web DeWolff\u2019s face, which breaks his hold and lets Iron Man knock him out. But then everyone notices Brian is still standing and moving, which he couldn\u2019t do before. Phillip\u2019s mind now inhabits both bodies, so now he\u2019s The Wraith. As the heroes begin to attack, The Wraith makes the floor into a monster, like on the cover. As the heroes attack it and people in the room react to it, we cut to Fury, watching all this on a screen, unable to see the monster. It\u2019s all a trick. The monster that\u2019s not really there begins to get the upper hand against Spider-Man, while The Wraith\u2019s mental attack against Iron man is so powerful it\u2019s beginning to threaten his bad heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Always room for a JJJ bit, even in the middle of all this. Dr. Strange uses the chance to dispell the monster, and Iron Man sucker punches The Wraith, putting him on the floor. Suddenly, Phillip is controlling his own body again, and outraged by the idea that they\u2019ve hurt his son, as if he hasn\u2019t hollowed out his son\u2019s skull and taken up residence. Phillip says once Brian wakes up, they\u2019ll be whole once more, but Strange has decided to try to fix Brian right here and now. But he senses an obstruction in his spine, the bullet from when he was thought dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, I don\u2019t understand that judge bit even a little. The hulk part is because he\u2019s Mantlo\u2019s next issue of Team-Up, but not THE next issue of Team-Up. For some reason, that will be a Spidey\/Cap story by Gerry Conway. Didn\u2019t he JUST quit? I dunno. We\u2019ll see eventually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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