{"id":12821,"date":"2022-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=12821"},"modified":"2021-03-15T20:48:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T00:48:01","slug":"tac-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/04\/27\/tac-112\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 112"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back whenever it was we last visited this period, during The Death of Jean DeWolff, we saw a second story man who was robbing apartments dressed as Santa Claus. I guess it\u2019s his time now. Peter David is joined by Mark Beachum on pencils, Pat Reeding on inks, and Nel Yomtov & George Roussos on colors. And with Mark Beachum comes more ludicrously over-rendered women\u2019s jeans, as a guy steals a woman\u2019s Christmas present on the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forcing David to call it out, even. Come on, Mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As our hero leaves, he thinks you\u2019d have to be \u201ca Class-A dodo\u201d to believe the guy\u2019s story, so naturally we linger to see the woman believing it. Then he steals her watch. Great. Page 4 and I\u2019m ready to pull the ripcord. Peter heads to The Bugle, where a strangely white-haired Joy Mercado kisses him under the mistletoe on his way to see Kate Cushing. Kate says he\u2019s always here when she doesn\u2019t need him and never here when she does, and he should get a beeper. In the issue\u2019s first funny joke, he briefly imagines telling Doc Ock he has to go in a fight because his beeper\u2019s going off, and then says he\u2019ll think about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Randomly very Romita, Sr. Almost surprised Aunt May isn\u2019t in skintight jeans. What\u2019s the deal with emo Pete-o, here? He then asks the passing Joe Robertson what he\u2019s doing for Christmas. He says Randy\u2019s coming home and they\u2019re all very excited. As Kate comes and gets Robbie\u2019s attention, Peter sulks off. Robbie, too, tries to invite Peter to Christmas, but he\u2019s already gone. This is weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How\u2019s this gonna factor in? Meanwhile, at yet another subplot, our secretly sinister Santa is doing the mall Santa thing, and the kid he\u2019s talking to is\u2026 Bambi\u2019s? One of Peter\u2019s three sunbathing neighbors? He begins to say he usually lives with a different family member, but Bambi cuts him off before he can say who (In tight jeans) and hurries him home. Santa is going to pay them a visit tonight. Robbing Spider-Man\u2019s neighbors is probably not a good idea. Speaking of, he\u2019s super bored, home alone. He tries calling Harry Osborn, but a screamin\u2019 mad infant Normie cuts that short. And then Beachum really cuts loose when Peter tries MJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For decades, people were like \u201cWhy don\u2019t more women read comics?\u201d People can usually tell when a product isn\u2019t for them, as it turns out. And the cheesecake continues as the bored Mr. Parker gets a phone call from someone who just hangs up, and it turns out to be Black Cat. Felicia is still sad about their break-up, and changes from a barely existent nightgown to her Black Cat suit to go adventuring for the first time since, we\u2019re told. She stops some guys robbing a clothing store with as many butt and crotch shots as possible. This is, like, a Frank Cho level embarrassment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am so lost. Why is Peter acting suicidal? What is going on? Meanwhile, Randy Robertson calls Robbie to say there was an issue with his flight and \u201cwe\u2019re\u201d getting a hotel room. When Robbie asks who \u201cwe\u201d are, he says he ran into a friend in the airport (Which is full of more butt shot ladies). But the truth is, he was bringing his wife home to meet his folks and has lost his nerve. Because they don\u2019t know he got married, and also because she\u2019s white. Of course, reading out of order, we\u2019ve already seen this goes fine, but here it is. Anyway, now it\u2019s late, and Peter Parker is asleep. So are neighbors Randi & Candi. But Bambi is troubled and awake, and also trying to sleep while dressed like she\u2019s in a Jane Fonda video for some reason, when a noise from the living room leads her to learn Santa is robbing them. And he\u2019s got a gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If nothing else, that\u2019s some good Spidey banter. The other girls and the little boy all come out to see what\u2019s going on (Guess how the girls are dressed. Go ahead, guess), and they get between our hero and the fleeing Santa, preventing him from webbing the robber. Mrs. Muggins bursts in wanting to know what\u2019s going on, and Spidey just picks her up and moves her out of the doorway so he can chase our villain. He\u2019s headed for the roof. But when he gets there, he\u2019s seemingly confronted with the real Santa, and when Spidey gets to the roof moments later, the thief is gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What? Who\u2019re these people? This was a mess of a comic book. Erratic story, bad pacing (Probably also Beachum\u2019s fault) and all this sad girlie art stuff. Blah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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