{"id":14017,"date":"2022-08-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=14017"},"modified":"2021-04-30T13:38:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T17:38:52","slug":"final-adventure-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/08\/03\/final-adventure-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Adventure 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This month\u2019s expensive, shiny color is: pink! Just punchin\u2019 right through a dude. All the dithering behind the scenes on this series pushed the art closer to the deadline each month, so this issue brings in a 2nd inker, Arne Starr, with more personnel to come next time. It\u2019s sunrise, and Spider-Man is just getting home after a night looking for Tendril. Also, he knows MJ left him, and he\u2019s sad, but he\u2019s still looking for Tendril instead of trying to fix that. He checks the machine and hears a message from Ken Ellis, but also one from Cal Falconer at work, letting him know he\u2019s late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this era where we\u2019ve seen all these comic book \u201cartists\u201d getting in because they could draw a 5th rate approximation of Todd McFarlane\u2019s Spider-Man and literally<\/em> nothing else, it\u2019s pretty refreshing to be with an artist who\u2019s so good at regular people. Even a lot of the actual professionals of this era couldn\u2019t hit that mark too well. Peter spending this series beating himself up for the creation of Tendril but being that cavalier about the death of Staphos is very jarring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As usual, really do not care for \u201cI had a bad childhood so I hate the world\u201d backstories. It\u2019s lazy and pretty hurtful to real people reading. Oh, hang on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hard to believe a perpetually cash-strapped family like The Parkers is holding onto Aunt May\u2019s house when no one\u2019s usually living in it. Did MJ have to get power and water turned back on? ALso in New York, Ken Ellis talks to himself to let us know Robbie refused to send him to Portland, so he\u2019s going to harass anyone he can find who\u2019s had dealings with Spider-Man, starting with Betty Brant. This subplot doesn\u2019t seem like it\u2019s moving fast enough for a series that\u2019s almost over. Meanwhile, Peter & Cal drive out to this Paul Contoni\u2019s house, which, once they get there, we see is very nice. Paul looks like a pile of mold, tho, and remembers Cal when he knocks on the door. He\u2019s heard about the killings and asks if GARID is responsible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cal\u2019s not gonna take no for an answer, but Peter talks him down and gets him to leave. But he also thinks Contoni will be getting a visit from Spider-Man tonight. Back in New York, Ken Ellis is plying Betty for info about her and Peter\u2019s youth together, and connecting some dots in her story of how Peter once impersonated Spider-Man and how Spider-Man stopped being a TV personality and became a crimefighter around the time Peter\u2019s uncle died. In the 80s, there was a very famous story where Ben Urich figures out who Daredevil is, but can\u2019t bring himself to write the story and ruin his life. A lot of people assume he\u2019s figured out Peter, too. This is like the evil opposite of that. While Ken\u2019s trying to ruin Peter\u2019s life, MJ is\u2026 doing her modeling gig with the same dudes she\u2019d been working with. How does that work? Was she always going to be flying back East for this? If so, why\u2019d she act like it was so weird to be in May\u2019s house? Very confusing. She\u2019s not having a good time, though, because she can\u2019t believe Peter hasn\u2019t contacted her yet. Me, neither, MJ!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back at The Bugle, Ellis & Betty return from lunch. Ellis goes to see Robbie, who points out Ellis is completely ignoring a story he\u2019s been assigned to harass Peter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good times. Much later, Spider-Man has driven back out to Contoni\u2019s place, now that it\u2019s night. And he finds him out in the woods, fighting a bear. I mean, we all need hobbies. Spidey tries to reason with Contoni, saying he may not want to help GARID, but \u201cpeople like us\u201d don\u2019t have a choice. When that gets his attention, Spidey explains that he may not look like Contoni on the outside, but he\u2019s similar to Verys on the inside, and Verys is similar to Contoni on the outside. He really says it like that. This is almost working until he reveals he\u2019s got a baby on the way and wants ot make sure it doesn\u2019t turn into something like Contoni. Smooth. He gets swept away in the weird mess of Contoni\u2019s body for that one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The whole \u201cwife left\u201d thing doesn\u2019t seem to be hitting Peter like it should. Still, nice to see him trying to help someone in a nonviolent way. We cut to Verys taking another victim under Peter\u2019s narration about trying to wrap this up and get his family back, and then we\u2019re back to NY, where Ben Reilly has stopped by to see MJ. This is\u2026 problematic\u2026 considering I\u2019m pretty sure they hadn\u2019t seen each other since Pete & MJ left town when they came back to the main books in TAC 232 (Published NEXT MONTH, alongside The Final Adventure #4!). MJ says his hair choices surprised her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I get the idea that Ellis is ambitious and wants a story that will make him famous, but what\u2019s with being such a jerk about it? \u201cHi, just stopped by to say I\u2019m trying to ruin your life! In the middle of the night, even!\u201d Back in Portland, the boys are working late at GARID, working to fix Contoni and find a way to fix Verys. Peter mentions he\u2019s been feeling bad since he fought Verys and has rechecked his own DNA, and hasn\u2019t liked what he found, but he\u2019s too busy to worry about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gasp. If you don\u2019t read everything that comes after this first, perhaps a shock ending. I don\u2019t know, really. Even in this context, even if Peter & MJ really were being sent off to live happily ever after and not come back, would anyone really buy Peter being depowered FOREVER? Comic fans are cynical. I guess maybe less so in 1995, before literally everyone had died and come back several times (Though the move to that is underway in Spidey, for sure). I just don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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