{"id":1412,"date":"2019-08-15T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2019-05-16T18:09:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T22:09:45","slug":"mtu-140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/08\/15\/mtu-140\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU 140"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ed Hannigan\u2019s art already has a rather Frank Miller-esque feel, but teamed up with Miller\u2019s long time inker Klaus Janson? You could be forgiven for assuming it was Frank. This is the first time jump on the blog to not start with an issue of ASM, but the reason for that will become clear directly. It\u2019s 1984 now, and Tom Defalco & Ron Frenz are about to start their long run on ASM. But first, the beginning of a 2-parter in MTU written by Bill Mantlo & Tom Defalco, with breakdowns by Ron Frenz and finishes by Mike Esposito. What? Yes. The new ASM team is also here. Sort of. And tonight in New York, it\u2019s a blackout!  It doesn\u2019t take long for looting to start in the darkness.
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Spidey\u2019s not getting through to anyone, and suddenly the pawnshop owner reappears with a shotgun, intent on killing his wouldbe robbers. Now Spidey is left trying to get everyone not to shoot each other, but\u2026
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Sad times. The next day, our old pal The Black Widow swings across town. She was supposed to have lunch with Matt Murdock, but all the looting last night has filled the courts with new cases, and he had to cancel. So she decides to go visit him at the courthouse.
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Ben, of course, is referring to the shooting Spider-Man was at last night. Peter is pretty freaked out by this. He figures if he couldn\u2019t tell who shot the guy, and he was there, how can the courts decide? The cops have brought in one Juan Santiago for it, and Matt, Peter & Ben all converge on him. Juan knows the score. He\u2019s got a record, but he went straight, and has been set up by the gang he used to be a part of, and the cops are all-too happy to believe it since he\u2019s got a criminal past. Matt can tell by his heartbeat the he\u2019s telling the truth.
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At the kid\u2019s arraignment, the judge is not in the mood for Matt\u2019s version of the story, and sets a court date for next week. Juan still thinks he\u2019s as good as gone, but Matt swears he\u2019ll get him out of this. However, with his overstuffed schedule, he can\u2019t run off and become Daredevil to search for evidence. Natasha comes back over and volunteers to help.
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That night, Natasha stakes out the neighborhood where the murder happened, and soon runs into Spidey. They agree to team up, no fight or anything(!), and swing off into the night.
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Almost had it, Spidey! I might as well be honest off the rip and say I am not really a fan of Ron Frenz. I am not really a fan of Sal Buscema, and Frenz is\u2026 pretty much a Sal Buscema impersonator. Behold the Buscema hand in the bottom right, even. Like he seems to have learned everything he knows from Sal Buscema comics in all areas except one, which will come up later. It\u2019s not my favorite era of Spidey art, and he\u2019s gonna be around for awhile. Ah, well. Spidey and Widow find the gang from the night before, and decide they need to a get someone to confess, so they\u2026 just start beating everyone up. I mean\u2026 That\u2019s a method, I guess. A dude flees immediately, and Spidey goes after him while the Widow takes out the rest of the gang.
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The fleeing dude is able to carjack a whole family, and Spidey is scared to do anything too reckless after last night, so he just follows them. Eventually, the guy dumps the family out of the car on a corner, except for a little girl he keeps as a hostage. Spidey shines his spider signal ahead of the car, and the guy panics and drives off a bridge.
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What was SUPPOSED to happen? \u201cI\u2019ll just let this nice fellow know I\u2019m still chasing him, probably he\u2019ll just pull right over!\u201d Spidey dives in after them and saves them both. He webs the guy to a tree and goes back in for the murder weapon, which he finds in the car.
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Black Widow is sure this will clear Juan. Spidey is still beating himself up about the shop owner\u2019s death as he swings away. The next day, Peter is minding his own when he gets a massive jolt from his Spider-Sense. It leads him to Central Park\u2026
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Spider-Man\u2019s off to Secret Wars! In a pretty unprecedented move, I do believe all 3 Spider-titles ended with this same scene this month, because Secret Wars was that big a deal, and so was what was about to happen to Spider-Man.  More on that next post. What about this issue\u2019s story, though?
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A superhero\u2019s work is never done. We\u2019ll check back in with DD & The Widow soon enough. First, though, come back next time for the most radical change to Spider-Man up to this point at least since the death of Gwen. Maybe ever (up to this point).
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