{"id":14229,"date":"2022-08-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=14229"},"modified":"2022-08-22T23:02:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T03:02:29","slug":"ssm-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/08\/22\/ssm-16\/","title":{"rendered":"SSM 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Follow-up question: Why is there a new Prowler? Perhaps we\u2019ll find out in this tale by Todd DeZago, Mike Weiringo, Richard Case and Gregory Wright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did \u201cthe accident\u201d happen off-panel? Is it just something I haven\u2019t seen yet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alrighty. In Queens, at \u201cearly dawn,\u201d MJ is looking at Peter\u2019s vampire bite, which is not getting any better, saying he should have it looked at so they can recap that, the various doings in recent ASM and TAC and so on until Aunt Anna shows up wanting to do their laundry. At \u201cearly dawn?\u201d Peter\u2019s in his suit and his mask is on top of their laundry basket, but MJ manages to throw a towel on top of it before she can open the door. At \u201cearly dawn.\u201d The sun\u2019s not even up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Feel like this was meant to be at night and DeZago just decided it wasn\u2019t. Meanwhile, Hobie Brown is having a nightmare about being The Prowler standing over some other guy dead in a Prowler costume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hobie was put in a coma in SMU 14<\/a>, I don\u2019t believe it said he was paralyzed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sure, ok. Spidey thinks to himself Hobie doesn\u2019t have nerve damage, only nerve trauma so he could walk again, but he sympathizes with his old friend feeling responsibility for his stuff being used for ill, so he\u2019s on the case. But not on it enough to stop the new Prowler\u2019s next heist. The mysterious new guy thinks he can do anything in this suit, and he\u2019s out for \u201criches and revenge.\u201d He breaks into a fancy rich people apartment, thinking he knows the occupant is out for triple-bypass surgery, but later, as he exits the crime scene, a figure descends on him from the sky. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s twice in 2 blocks that Prowler series has come up in Vulture stories. That moment\u2019s distraction gets Spidey punched right into some poor couple\u2019s bed, and when he gets out, both villains have disappeared. He begins searching for Fake Prowler again, but hours later, he\u2019s come up with nothing, and he thinks he\u2019s going to have to pack it in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFar out!\u201d It\u2019s 1997!!! Could the Spider-Writers be any more out of touch?? Well, I guess we\u2019ll see more on this next issue. I\u2019ve not read this issue, but I feel like I remember this Walters kid. Maybe he\u2019s around for awhile. Ringo\u2019s Spidey is getting better every month. Ringo is getting better every month, and he wouldn\u2019t stop getting better until his untimely death. So sad. He was doing the best work of his life when he died. Still gets me. But, obviously, this issue doesn\u2019t end on page 16. A 2nd story, by the same team only with Richard Case both penciling and inking, follows. Case and Grant Morrison had a legendary run on Doom Patrol a few years prior to this, but I don\u2019t think I knew he drew any Spider-Man. This story concerns DK, the goofy toxic waste villain from TAC 230<\/a>, now a patient at Ravencroft. This blatant \u201cArkham Asylum for Spider-Man\u201d feels so lazy every time. Speaking of whom, Spidey is there to check on DK with Dr. Kafka. One problem, of course\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is really interesting. Case is obviously trying to draw like Ringo. And unlike so much of the style aping we see on this blog, I suspect this is just him trying to keep the book consistent. The Spider-Men, at least, are pretty close, too. David turns full muck monster and lashes out, saying he wants to leave, and as Spidey fails to reason with him, says he\u2019s leaving now and destroys the wall of his room. Spidey dives Dr. Kafka out from under the collapsing ceiling before taking off after the decomposing DK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, ok. Tune in next time for the conclusion of both of these stories, I assume…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Follow-up question: Why is there a new Prowler? Perhaps we\u2019ll find out in this tale by Todd DeZago, Mike Weiringo, Richard Case and Gregory Wright. Did \u201cthe accident\u201d happen off-panel? Is it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[427,1251,486,275,13,21,523,626,473,2,452,98],"class_list":["post-14229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-ashley-kafka","tag-billy-walters","tag-dk","tag-gregory-wright","tag-j-jonah-jameson","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-mike-weiringo","tag-richard-case","tag-sensational-spider-man","tag-spider-man","tag-todd-dezago","tag-vulture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20959,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229\/revisions\/20959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}