{"id":13480,"date":"2022-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=13480"},"modified":"2021-04-11T01:50:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T05:50:29","slug":"tac-180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/06\/17\/tac-180\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 180"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the saying goes, you can\u2019t keep a bad goblin down. I think that\u2019s the saying. I could be thinking of something else. We open on video of Vermin initially once again responding to Dr. Kafka\u2019s treatment until she asks him about something he doesn\u2019t want to talk about (About why \u201cthe bad thing happens\u201d when he goes to sleep). He grabs her by the throat, but she rather fearlessly talks him back down, and he winds up curled up on the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The little boy being young Edward seems pretty much confirmed there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Perhaps the first-ever depiction of Harry\u2019s mother? Did they ever even say what happened to her? I bet Kurt Busiek hit it in his Legacy of Evil one-shot, if nothing else, but it\u2019s been a long time and I don\u2019t remember it too well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This looks bad. Both tormented by ghosts and remembering who\u2019s under that Spider-Man mask after all these years. Kinda hard to believe this stayed dormant for close to 20 years. That some writer didn\u2019t already do this. Ghost Norman berates Harry for always running from him, and Ghost Peter tells him to stand up to his dad. Harry makes his usual choice and sides with his dad, punching the Ghost Peter across the room and saying he\u2019s always coming between Harry & Norman. Ghost Norman loves it, encouraging his son to \u201cpound that no good scum through the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coming out of his delusion, Harry sees the photo album on the floor and destroys it in a rage. Which, I dunno, hallucinations aside, maybe a good idea. The past ain\u2019t too sweet for Mr. Osborn, especially compared to the present. Somehow, tho, I doubt this will be a healing moment. While he destroys some photos, we fins Spider-Man standing at the graves of his parents and uncle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sal Buscema\u2019s attempt to get onboard with McFarlane\u2019s dumb clouds of webbing around Spider-Man end up being worse, somehow. Like Todd\u2026 his approach is so abstract you can almost dismiss it. But Sal just wads up a bunch of web in each fist. How does Spider-Man even get that much extra web in his hand?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wonder if writing this page is when DeMatteis thought, \u201cI have to kill her.\u201d Elsewhere, Vermin reads a story to the little boy about kids being menaced by a witch. The witch is a \u201che,\u201d and when the boy says he thought all witches were ladies, Vermin says the good ones are, but when the bad thing happens… Then he starts screaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man comics in 1991 are apparently just \u201cThere hasn\u2019t been nearly enough child abuse in these stories for the last 30 years, we gotta make up for lost time!\u201d Dr. Kafka is watching this footage, still bandaged up from Vermin attacking her last issue, wondering if she pushed him too hard. Meanwhile, Harry Osborn looks in on his sleeping son, and then his sleeping wife, and then, as Spider-Man arrives home, feeling rejuvenated just from being in the old neighborhood, a familiar shape appears in the sky behind him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It almost feels like an anachronism in this age of Venoms and demonic Hobgoblins and cool-art-over-plot, this exchange. \u201cHe called me Peter! He remembers!\u201d Straight out of the old Lee\/Kane\/Romita days. Goblin announces there\u2019s no reason to drag their families into their \u201clittle war,\u201d and says he\u2019s moving their battleground elsewhere. Spider-Man follows, desperately rationalizing that, since he beat Harry pretty bad last time he dressed up as the Goblin, maybe he thinks he has to beat Spider-Man to prove he\u2019s got what it takes. He rationalizes further that, if Harry had truly gone nuts, he wouldn\u2019t care about endangering their loved ones. Sounds nice in theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Been awhile since we saw it in action, but Spider-Man\u2019s true archenemy is and shall ever be gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, we\u2019re in it now. Getting a little crowded, villain-wise, considering Harry and Vermin have no real connection. I assume that will change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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