{"id":12033,"date":"2022-02-14T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=12033"},"modified":"2020-12-16T19:01:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T23:01:59","slug":"asm-167","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/02\/14\/asm-167\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 167"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hey, an actual ASM. Been awhile. Tip top Romita Spideys on this cover. Very, very, very confident blurb on the debut of this issue\u2019s new character. Not\u2026 warranted. As we get rolling, JJJ is testing the gear on the new Spider-Slayer. It can shoot an \u201cimpulse beam,\u201d cut Spider-Man\u2019s nearly unbreakable web somehow, and do other stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marla\u2019s handling of JJJ is fun to read, but it\u2019s hard to buy that she\u2019d be onboard with all this. But she is, so here we go. First, tho, we cut to\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yeah, it\u2019s him. The introduction of the super awkwardly named Will O\u2019 The Wisp. But wait, there\u2019s yet another thing to cut to!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yeah, the beginning of this subplot. All this jumping around is weird sometimes. Peter thinks about how Aunt May is tougher than he gives her credit for as he & MJ walk off, and even considers maybe telling her he\u2019s Spider-Man when he danger sense alerts him that someone on a nearby rooftop is watching them. He gives MJ an excuse about having a lot on his mind and wanting to take a walk, and after putting her on a bus, decides to see who\u2019s tailing him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And so the silliness begins. JJJ opens by turning on some blinding lights and crowing about having evidence of \u201cwho and what\u201d our hero really is. But when he tries to run into Spidey, he ducks under the robot and escapes as it crashes into a wall. He uses the opening to just swing off, leaving JJJ frustrated. That\u2019s pretty funny. No fight for you. Meanwhile, what\u2019s the rest of the cast up to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that was a strange thing for Harry\u2019s shrink to do. Blocking traffic and all. Fancy car, too. Weird introduction. Elsewhere, Joe Robertson gets in his car, headed out to look into the story of a glowing ball hijacking trucks in New Jersey when Spider-Man makes himself known in the backseat. He asks of JJJ has been acting strange lately. Robbie says he\u2019s been cackling over the contents of some envelope, but otherwise normal. Robbie is also furious at Spidey for this intrusion, saying to keep out of his private life and get out of his car. Surely can\u2019t fault him for that. But now Spider-Man thinks he\u2019s got a clue to follow up on. Soon, he\u2019s breaking into JJJ\u2019s office and desk, stashing the envelope in his pants just before the night guard comes in. Spidey takes off with JJJ\u2019s evidence, still not having looked at it, when he sees a glowing ball zoom across the sky. Following it, he sees it fly through a wall into a building, and then watches through a window as it turns into a guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man dives right through Will, who helpfully says he can control his very molecules. Spidey tries to punch him, but that\u2019s no more effective, and then Will knocks him through a window. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That was one busy issue! More going on in 17 pages of story than you\u2019d get in 2 or 3 whole comics these days. How will the coming battle shake out? I guess we\u2019ll see next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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