{"id":12607,"date":"2022-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=12607"},"modified":"2021-02-15T14:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T18:06:01","slug":"tac-088","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/04\/07\/tac-088\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 088"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

That is certainly a take on Mr. Hyde! I really prefer the sort of crude, choppy inking Milgrom applies to his pencils to the flat, faux-John Romita, Sr. thing Jim Mooney does. It\u2019s Mantlo, Milgrom, Mooney & Sharen again this month. Bob\u2019s really messing up the M-Team! As this one gets cracking, there\u2019s panic in Ryker\u2019s Island, because one of the inmates has broken free and says he\u2019ll only bend his rampage if they hand over The Cobra to him. Cobra is terrified, and the guards more or less are, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hyde\u2019s still mad about their last appearance in ASM 231<\/a> & 232<\/a>. My memory of those events is he got some pretty decent revenge on his old pal Cobra, but I guess it wasn\u2019t enough. The guards try all manner of tactics to subdue Hyde as the warden has Cobra taken to the roof to be airlifted elsewhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cobra slips free and jumps over the wall, his weird squishy body surviving a fall that would kill a regular person into the water. But Hyde\u2019s no regular person, either, so he jumps down after him. While the chase continues, we cut to the home of Felicia Hardy, where she sleeps soundly and where Peter Parker was also sleeping until recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How does Felicia pay for this place without a job? With money she got robbing people, one assumes. No problems with that, Peter? \u201cWhy do I keep worrying about the fact that my girlfriend doesn\u2019t care who I am?\u201d What a question. But it gets dumber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The idea that a regular person is just casually keeping up with Spider-Man is pretty silly. This isn\u2019t Batman & Robin. He\u2019s so much faster and more powerful than anyone should be able to hang with. We get the increasingly standard montage of them \u201cgiving themselves to the night\u201d or whatever until they hear a scream and investigate. It\u2019s in response to Hyde tearing the city apart chasing after Cobra. Spider-Man quite rightly tells Felicia to stay out of it because it\u2019s too dangerous, and as usual, she says no. Hyde\u2019s literally throwing trucks at Cobra and she\u2019s like \u201cI got this.\u201d Cobra begs Spider-Man to save him like he did last time, and he agrees, telling Cat to guard Cobra as he sets his sights on Hyde. And, just like with Hobgoblin, Spidey starts working on a plan and then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey leaps between them and tells her to run, and she sort of does, but she thinks this is the last time she\u2019ll be \u201cshunted off to safety.\u201d We\u2019ve already seen the result of that declaration, but now we\u2019re on our way to seeing how she does it. While no one\u2019s looking, Cobra slithers off into a warehouse, thinking he planned his escape route coming through here for a reason. Back at the fight, Spider-Man makes the reasonable argument that while Hyde wastes time trying to kill him and the Cat, Cobra is getting away. When that doesn\u2019t work, he just tries good ol\u2019 web in the face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is Felicia Hardy one of the stupidest people ever to appear in Spider-Man comics? Signs point to yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seeing Spider-Man\u2019s unmoving form, Black Cat believes he\u2019s dead, and it\u2019s her fault. Hyde\u2019s intent on making it 2 for 2 when he suddenly finds himself with a back full of darts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In addition to a prodigious amount of cobra venom, Cobra drops a bunch of smoke bombs on Hyde as he\u2019s tearing the whole corner off the building Cobra clings to. And in the smoke, he doesn\u2019t see Hyde get close until Hyde has a hand around his neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weird pose in the middle panel on the bottom. So now it\u2019s time for Felicia to go make things worse instead of dealing with reality. 12 more issues of this relationship. Unbelievable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That is certainly a take on Mr. Hyde! I really prefer the sort of crude, choppy inking Milgrom applies to his pencils to the flat, faux-John Romita, Sr. thing Jim Mooney does….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[153,107,156,253,211,18,212,121,2],"class_list":["post-12607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-al-milgrom","tag-bill-mantlo","tag-black-cat","tag-bob-sharen","tag-cobra","tag-jim-mooney","tag-mr-hyde","tag-spectacular-spider-man","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12619,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12607\/revisions\/12619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}