{"id":14001,"date":"2022-08-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=14001"},"modified":"2021-04-30T13:35:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T17:35:52","slug":"final-adventure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/08\/02\/final-adventure-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Adventure 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shiny blue cover this time. Well worth the extra cost! These \u201cfancy\u201d cardstock covers include back covers like a real book, with a blurb to entice the reader. This one includes \u201cThe is Spider-Man\u2019s final adventure\u2026 and it may just be his greatest!\u201d Either cynical marketing or delirious hubris, that. To open, a guy walks out of a bar, internal monologuing. But not for long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Odd lookin\u2019 villain we got here. Turns out, this is his 3rd victim. It\u2019s been a week since last issue. Peter is at a meeting the next day where, during recapping, it\u2019s confirmed Verys is the new serial killer in Portland, as they have (Somehow?) matched the residue he leaves behind to Verys\u2019 DNA. Boss man wants to go to the police, but owner man says it would ruin the business. Security man says he and his men can capture Verys first. Talk about hubris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schwinner gives Cal until 5pm to finish this, or he goes to the cops. And Peter Parker? Well, he\u2019s just lying about not being able to tell what Monica did before she and the guards were killed. And he\u2019s been searching for Verys himself, as Spider-Man, which hasn\u2019t made MJ too happy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nobody draws angry people quite like Darick Robertson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not a good time for their relationship, seems like. But as Spider-Man heads out to do what he feels he must, Ken Ellis calls the house. He tells MJ he\u2019s following up on the trial and she hangs up on him. I mean, understandably, but he takes it to mean she\u2019s hiding something. \u201cHi, I\u2019m trying to dredge up the story of how your husband was accused of murder. What? You\u2019re not happy about this?\u201d Ken Ellis sucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At least someone\u2019s finally suspicious of this absurdly suspicious plotline. And this raises an important question that every story where Peter is trying to superhero somewhere Spider-Man shouldn\u2019t be does: Why is he wearing the suit??? I mean, I know why, it\u2019s to sell the comic. But, like the McFarlane Wolverine thing awhile back, if Spider-Man\u2019s not supposed to be there, put on a ski mask and do your thing! Or like the McFarlane Morbius thing, if he just needed to be wearing black, why\u2019d he need a spider suit? Just put on black clothes! That he wears the suit sometimes he shouldn\u2019t only because he has to be Spider-Man in a Spider-Man comic really sucks. But he\u2019s doing it, and thinking to himself as he goes to follow Cal\u2019s van how he can\u2019t stop. How Spider-Man is who he is, no matter what he thought having a kid would do. He also mentions his webshooters don\u2019t work anymore, which is news to me. Why? Shouldn\u2019t that have come up before now? Isn\u2019t he the brilliant scientist who invented them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fabian Nicieza loves the word \u201cfeeb.\u201d We are 200% not on the same page RE: this topic, and never were. His over use of this word and the phrase \u201ccaught you napping\u201d in the X-Books irked me even as a child. Wonder if Spidey will catch anyone napping in this. Fair odds! Swinging under a bridge on his makeshift web, Spidey tells us their findings suggest Verys\u2019 new body \u201chas become like wet cotton. Incredibly tensile, but stretched thin.\u201d Uh\u2026 like a spider?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This looks well after the 5pm deadline to me. One of the guards goes to free the one victim who\u2019s still alive, and finds the stuff they\u2019re wrapped up in is Verys himself. The guard fires a \u201cplasma rifle\u201d (Standard issue in Portland security firms in 1995?) with the improbable sound effect \u201cPHOONTA!\u201d but it has no effect. So Spidey tries kicking Verys in the face, also no effect. But the momentum of the attempt takes them out from under the bridge\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buddha???<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Funny how often our man has to dive into the ocean. Soon, he\u2019s arrived home, still dripping wet, MJ watching him on the news. He wonders how he can fight a guy made of webs, and MJ says she doesn\u2019t care. She wants to know what she\u2019ll tell their child when it has to grow up without a father. Their argument ends in a stalemate. I think I\u2019m on her side here. Back at GARID, Cal wants to know why Galannan tipped off the news. He figured out where Verys would go on some very flimsy supposition and sent the news so, when Cal and his men caught Verys, they\u2019d look like heroes. What a guy, this guy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dryrot? Peer is working on a sample he couldn\u2019t possibly have? He is so dumb in this comic! Once the bosses finish meeting with the law, Peter says he might have something, but he needs to know how Staphos synthesized her serum. And to his shock (Tho one wonders why it\u2019s so shocking if one thinks about it for more than a second), is soon taken to the modernized but still recognizable machine that made him Spider-Man. I mean, he knows this company made that machine. He knows Staphos\u2019 serum was like what happened to him. He knows he works for the inventor of that machine. Put it together, buddy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boy oh boy. I don\u2019t know where, exactly, in this process it was decided that Peter would come back to replace Ben, but it almost had to have happened before this issue saw print. Why create this issue with 2 Spider-Men? And in an ancillary title, no less! This is the biggest threat to both Peter AND Ben, and it\u2019s in this overpriced miniseries not everyone was buying. What a decision. Also, MJ left. I mean, who believes she\u2019d really leave? Not much of a cliffhanger, there. But we\u2019ll see how it plays out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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