{"id":14445,"date":"2022-09-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=14445"},"modified":"2021-06-04T20:55:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T00:55:02","slug":"sm-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/09\/08\/sm-83\/","title":{"rendered":"SM 83"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In-house ads have been like \u201cTHIS IS IT! THE VERTIGO ISSUE!\u201d like we were all waiting with baited breath for a comic where Spider-Man is especially dizzy. \u201cThrilling can\u2019t-move action!\u201d Great cover, tho. And that\u2019s just the start. This is another one I actually remember, and the art team just goes bananas on this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They\u2019re locked in. Romita is doing fun things with page construction. Across another 2-page spread, Spidey recaps why he\u2019s trapped here while seeing an open window a few floors above him. But try as he might, he can\u2019t make himself crawl up there. And if that\u2019s not bad enough, the mystery man from last issue is in the building, blasting his way into an office level with Spider-Man\u2019s predicament, saying they\u2019ll be able to catch up on old times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here\u2019s some of the most aggressive stuff yet trying to convince you Peter & MJ are SO YOUNG, actually, 36 years since they were 15 years old. It doesn\u2019t stick. Meanwhile, Paul Stacy basically repeats his scene from last issue questioning why he\u2019s fallen in with the Friends of Humanity and also why he doesn\u2019t want to quit them when Robin comes smashing through his window. She asks he wants to try to intimidate her again, now she\u2019s all armored up, but before he can answer, we\u2019re back to our title character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lookit Romita, Jr.\u2019s Shocker! Designed by his dear ol\u2019 dad, of course. As he does with Iron Man, Jr. really tries to communicate the material of the suit. It\u2019s the same Shocker, but his suit\u2019s as padded, as thick, as bulky as it was always implied to be. Elsewhere, MJ is still kind of stalling for Peter to arrive, fielding questions about if they share friends and such, and refusing to talk about the dead ones after she mentions them and the unseen psychiatrist wants more info. In\u00a0 the C plot, Robin tells Paul if he\u2019s scared, he now has some idea what it\u2019s like to be a mutant. She says she came to kill him, but won\u2019t sink to his level. Even now, he\u2019s a pompous jerk. But he might be singing another tune if he knew a shadowy figure in a car outside has just received the order that Paul is expendable if \u201cthe team\u201d can get Robin. Aaaaand back in the A plot\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that made no sense. Shocky followed Spider-Man a long time, and impossibly well, to get to this point, tell him he\u2019s gonna be real scary later, and leave. Roger that. In another 2-page spread, we begin to intercut between Spider-Man and Mary Jane, Spider-Man realizing the ledge he\u2019s hanging from is crumbling under him as MJ talks about how they\u2019ve always managed to hang in there, that kind of thing. MJ asserts they\u2019ll be together no matter what the future brings as he begins to fall to his certain doom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cGwen & George were my favorite people in the whole world, and that\u2019s why they never, ever talked about it, and also why I waited years to bother to show up and investigate their deaths!\u201d This is so awkward. The goon squad\u2019s bullets just bounce off Robin as she shields Paul from the barrage. She tells him to flee, and if he\u2019s \u201cgot a heart,\u201d to evacuate the building, which he begins to do. Robin decides to teach the Friends a pretty harsh lesson as some onlookers spot a child still trapped in the building, as people always do in these situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And so, Spider-Man\u2019s storied career comes to its tragic end. Pretty sure. Sorry. This issue features a letter by a guy who says, \u201cOne complaint, though, do you think that John Romita, Jr. could make Mary Jane slightly sexier?\u201d He also asks them to hurry up and resolve the baby plot, and the response he gets is \u201ctrust us.\u201d Don\u2019t listen to \u2018em, weird creepy guy, they have no plan, and when they get there yer gonna wish they hadn\u2019t! Anyway, tune in next time to see if Spider-Man is dead. He probably is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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