{"id":128,"date":"2019-07-01T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T04:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=128"},"modified":"2019-04-23T21:23:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T01:23:48","slug":"asm-212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/07\/01\/asm-212\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 212"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Picking up from last issue, Denny O\u2019Neil, John Romita, Jr., Jim Mooney, it\u2019s going down. Literally, the crew from last issue are lowering the generator into the ocean in the new location Namor suggested. Spider-Man is still crazy itchy from the brine. And then a live wire breaks while they\u2019re lowering the thingie. What is with \u201cCheese a\u2019mighty?\u201d O\u2019Neil puts one in every issue. Is this just amusing him? Who says this? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No way! Are you telling me Spider-Man creates Hydro-Man??? I\u2019ve seen Hydro-Man in a lot of things. He was in one of the first ASMs I ever read, #315, and quite a few since. There\u2019s a great and memorable comic in Christopher Priest\u2019s Black Panther run with Hydro-Man. But I never knew where he came from. I can\u2019t believe it. Spidey, you doofus. So, yeah, this deckhand guy gets knocked in the drink with this untested and malfunctioning energy generator and guess what? Super science has birthed yet another monster. Well, not yet. First, as soon as Spider-Man finds out someone fell overboard, he dives in, even though it\u2019s been \u201cfour, five minutes\u201d and he\u2019s probably dead. But then\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey brings one Morrie Bench back aboard and he\u2019s taken to sick bay. He\u2019s totally fine against all odds, but he\u2019s getting agitated because no matter how hard he scrubs, he can\u2019t dry off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And he\u2019s a sweetheart, too! Meanwhile, Spider-Man is swinging home, complaining about the heat out and the itching in his suit. But he comes home to his country-singing neighbor at it again, so it\u2019s not a happy return. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JJJ wants pictures of \u201ckids frolicking in the fountain and that garbage,\u201d on a freelance basis. Pete accepts. And there it is. It was a weird ride for quite a while there, but Peter\u2019s back to working for The Bugle, and all is right in the world again. He calls up Deb Whitman to see if she wants to run around Manhattan with him, and of course she does. She says she does even if maybe she didn\u2019t, because she\u2019s Deb Whitman. Meanwhile, Morrie Bench is at a bar, and he\u2019s looking pretty soaked. His sunny disposition chases off a woman who claimed to be his \u201ctroo lady luv,” and then\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is this the craziest reaction to superpowers ever? That man turned into a puddle, ran outside, and reformed into a dude, and he goes \u201cYeah, yeah\u201d?? Like it\u2019s nothing?? Insane! I can\u2019t get over it. Then of course it\u2019s time for revenge. So he goes to the apartment of a cop who busted him one time, and he is just REALLY acclimating to this whole \u201cHydro-Man\u201d thing way too well and too fast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just coming up out of the sink! It\u2019s like he\u2019s been doing this his whole life. He realizes this isn\u2019t going to get him anywhere and decides to just scour the city for Spider-Man, \u201croom by room\u201d if he has to. Then there\u2019s a montage of him\u2026 showing up places with water, \u201ctraveling through the sewers and pipes and drains of New York.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How did he get in a bucket?? Did he need the element of surprise to hassle some random janitor? Insane. Meanwhile, Peter is back home at The Daily Bugle, Deb Whitman in tow, checking in with JJJ before heading out, but\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, you know what that means. It\u2019s time for Peter to cancel plans with Deb. As usual. As always. And then talk about how bad he feels. As Spider-Man, he swings over to the area Hydro-Man was last seen, and just\u2026 heads into an office building to look for him. Alright.
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I mean\u2026 not wrong, really. Spidey\u2019s fine, don\u2019t worry, webbed a flagpole. But while he was gone, Hydro-Man escaped down a sink. So Pete takes the photos to JJJ and says Spider-Man asked that they run an add challenging Hydro-Man to a showdown on top of the Katen Building. JJJ is all for anything that will put Spidey in danger, so that\u2019s set. Hydro-Man\u2019s all for it, too. Cops surround the building to keep the public out of it, and then it\u2019s show time.
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Spidey switches tactics, leading Hydro-Man on a chase across the rooftops, letting the sweltering sun beat down on him while running him through a clothes line and throwing old newspapers at him, making him lose water any way he can. Not bad, actually. Hydro-Man is feeling it, but refuses a truce, and when Spidey goes to defend himself\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that\u2019s it for Spidey\u2019s first battle with Hydro-Man. Pretty crazy ending. What a crazy issue, in general. Given that Hydro-Man is exactly like Sandman, only with a different part of the beach, it\u2019s kinda hard to believe it took this long for someone to think of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Picking up from last issue, Denny O\u2019Neil, John Romita, Jr., Jim Mooney, it\u2019s going down. Literally, the crew from last issue are lowering the generator into the ocean in the new location…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[9,154,209,241,13,18,26,118,2],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-amazing-spider-man","tag-deb-whitman","tag-denny-oneil","tag-hydro-man","tag-j-jonah-jameson","tag-jim-mooney","tag-joe-robertson","tag-john-romita-jr","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","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=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4029,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/4029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}