{"id":12704,"date":"2022-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=12704"},"modified":"2021-02-21T21:26:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T01:26:32","slug":"asm-272","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/04\/15\/asm-272\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 272"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The hits just keep on comin\u2019. From the people who brought you The Spectacular Spider-Kid and Manslaughter (Mountain) Marsdale (Marko) comes\u2026 Slyde. This issue comes courtesy of a fill-in art team that\u2019s it\u2019s most interesting feature by far: Sal Buscema penciling and Kyle Baker on finishes. Kyle Baker is an excellent cartoonist who did a lot of inking in this period, and he really brought his own interests to an inking job. Put him together with Sal, who\u2019s work really lives or dies based on who\u2019s inking it, and you get something pretty striking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is this character really lame? Yes. Is that a great splash? Also yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So that\u2019s Slyde\u2019s deal. He slides. And if you\u2019re maybe thinking that DeFalco\u2019s sudden overuse of the word \u201cdude\u201d might be his way of indicating he\u2019s black under that mask, you got it in one. While Slyde has fun robbing people, Spider-Man is making like Daredevil and roughing up dudes in a pool hall, looking for information about who beat up Nathan. But the goons know nothing, and the owner comes after him with a pool cue, and he realizes this isn\u2019t getting him anywhere. He is yet again shown to be bad at the whole detective thing. He swings away, recapping last issue as he lands on a nearby rooftop and punches a chimney to bits out of frustration. A guy pops up from a nearby skylight and (Rightly, in this instance) says The Bugle is right about Spider-Man being a menace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean, Sal is almost lost in these pages. Almost. There\u2019s no mistaking his posing, but Baker\u2019s just going to town. Also: Rappin\u2019 Rodney! All that web lands on passers-by, who add to the rapidly growing number of New Yorkers who hate Spider-Man today. Spidey tries to leap and grab Slyde, but he slides on past him at great speed, making Spider-Man fall into a produce truck. Slyde escapes, The guy who owns the truck yells about suing, and a random ridiculous outfit in a store window makes Spider-Man think of The Beyonder, as he seems to do all the time during Secret Wars II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We learn via flashback that Jalome invented a new, even-more-non-stick coating that what most frying pans are made of (Ok), but then his company got bought out by a cartoonishly evil man, who allegedly ruined everything and then fired him. Wanting to strike out on his own with his \u201cmiracle coating, but denied a bank loan, he has turned to crime. He plans to put his former employer out of business and get rich. That\u2019s the whole bit. His supername shoulda been Teflon Don.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rough. Meanwhile, Slyde breaks into his former workplace, busts up the joint and then steals a briefcase full of important papers out of his old boss\u2019s hand on the way out. I don\u2019t much care about that, I care about this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aw, May, come on. We literally just did this. Slyde calls the old boss and demands $25,000 for the papers back. The boss tells his goon to go hire more goons for the meet. Spider-Man is rousting still more guys in alleys looking for info on Nathan when he finds out about it. Yadda yadda. Later, as Slyde and the boss guy, Rockwall, make their deal, Spider-Man is stealthily taking out various hoods who were supposed to kill Slyde.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey is internally fuming as Slyde is hailed as a hero, but Slyde never intended to give the money back and slides on outta there. Spidey starts to give chase and then decides he\u2019s had it. \u201cI\u2019m tired of putting myself on the line for everyone else! From now on, number one comes first — and the rest of the world can go hang!\u201d Yes, we\u2019ve gotten to yet another \u201cSpidey cops out\u201d moment. And unfortunately, this one lasts awhile. But wait, this issue isn\u2019t over yet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, it turns out the guy whose powers include \u201ccan smell things\u201d and \u201cnot nearly as strong as Spider-Man\u201d is supposed to stop a literal god. I\u2019m sure that\u2019ll go well, right? But according to that reading order from last issue, we\u2019re gonna check in with no less than 4 issues of Web first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The hits just keep on comin\u2019. From the people who brought you The Spectacular Spider-Kid and Manslaughter (Mountain) Marsdale (Marko) comes\u2026 Slyde. This issue comes courtesy of a fill-in art team that\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[9,35,253,402,164,37,448,2,912,124],"class_list":["post-12704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-amazing-spider-man","tag-aunt-may","tag-bob-sharen","tag-kyle-baker","tag-nathan-lubensky","tag-sal-buscema","tag-slyde","tag-spider-man","tag-thomas-fireheart","tag-tom-defalco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704","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=12704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12715,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions\/12715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}