{"id":12790,"date":"2022-04-25T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T04:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=12790"},"modified":"2021-03-27T15:18:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T19:18:42","slug":"tac-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/04\/25\/tac-111\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 111"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The extreme Mark-Bagley-ness of that Puma figure makes the \u201cR. Buckler\u201d signature a twist ending no matter how many times I see this cover. It\u2019s kind of uncanny. This one seems like a rush job, with current Spider-Editor Jim Owsley (aka Christopher Priest) stepping in to write, with just layouts by Rich Buckler, inks from \u201cM. Hands,\u201d and colors by Nel Yomtov. As we begin, Puma\u2019s still in Japan. He recaps last issue as he leaves town for a remote area, and, because it\u2019s 1982, fights some ninjas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That is a very Priest gag. Puma explains his situation as best he can, and then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Beyonder is literally everywhere during Secret Wars II. Beyonder kinda recaps his deal, how he first became aware of our universe, dragged various heroes and villains to him to play a game in Secret Wars, and has since decided to come to Earth and learn about humanity, and had many adventures already since he\u2019s in like every comic. He tells Puma he\u2019s decided his role is to help others find fulfillment, and that he should be using his powers to help his tribe instead of trying to kill The Beyonder. He even tells Puma his passport has arrived at the Tokyo office. Puma says he\u2019ll leave, but only to find a way to destroy The Beyonder. And he was being so nice, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seems like that was supposed to be \u201cI suggest you wish\u2026\u201d Spider-Man rushes in to stop a van full of jewel thieves, but before he can reach them, they run a red light and sideswipe a station wagon. This sends both vehicles towards pedestrians in opposite directions. Spider-Man webs both and almost pulls himself in half stopping them. But the passenger in the wagon may have died. Then we jump ahead to the end of ASM 273, with Beyonder showing up and asking \u201cWhat do you what?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, The Beyonder\u2019s desire to help others find contentment means he has to let Puma kill him. That\u2019s pretty a pretty unusual turn of events. Which certainly makes it fit into this issue, my goodness. The Beyonder goes to consult with the Marvel personification of death (Which he destroyed in a misguided attempt to help people in an issue of Secret Wars II, but has since restored), wondering what it would be like to die, and if he\u2019s really willing to do it to help Puma find completion. Meanwhile, we learn that that the guy driving the station wagon earlier is named after Marvel editor Ralph Macchio, and that his wife, Maude, died in the altercation. That\u2019s kinda mean to Ralph, guys. Ralph tells a news crew he blames The Beyonder\u2019s cult, saying they were only in town because his wife wanted to see them. He says he\u2019ll make The Beyonder pay. Seems unlikely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter totally does look like a narc, what\u2019s with that suit? It looks like it belongs on a much bigger dude. Beyonder is at the club, watching \u201cOld Master And The Chanters\u201d play their first gig, as Peter Parker shows up, still looking awful and not behind allowed in until Joy turns up and says he\u2019s with her. And right behind them comes Puma, in full kitty mode. Beyonder senses his arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Puma confronts The Beyonder, saying Muramoto would be alive if Beyonder had left him in Tokyo (Technically true), and he\u2019s now more sure than ever of what he must do. While Peter\u2019s webbing his clothes to an alley wall, a blast rocks the nightclub. He rushes inside to find Puma is now huge. Beyonder says that once he fit into his life\u2019s role without doubt, \u201cthe universe aligned itself around him harmoniously\u201d and this is the outcome. He now actually has the power to kill The Beyonder. And, like anyone suddenly possessed of a ton of cosmic power, he\u2019s gone nuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And so, nothing is resolved, because The Beyonder has 2 more issues of Secret Wars II (And basically every other comic) to appear in. This month\u2019s Bullpen Bulletins features Jim Shooter announcing the winners of the Marvel Try-Out Book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bags, of course, went to a truly prolific career that continues to this day. Doug Hazelwood also went on to steady work. Robin Riggs actually wound up doing a lot of inking for Marvel UK. And the others\u2026 didn\u2019t go anywhere. The book Shooter promises completing the story was never published. If you want to see how it ends, I guess you\u2019ll have to settle for my attempt at it<\/a>. Come back next time for the best issue of ASM between here and David Michelinie taking over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The extreme Mark-Bagley-ness of that Puma figure makes the \u201cR. Buckler\u201d signature a twist ending no matter how many times I see this cover. It\u2019s kind of uncanny. This one seems like…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[1065,322,403,872,364,852,121,2],"class_list":["post-12790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-beyonder","tag-christopher-priest","tag-joy-mercado","tag-nel-yomtov","tag-puma","tag-rich-buckler","tag-spectacular-spider-man","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790","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=12790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12818,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790\/revisions\/12818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}