{"id":15702,"date":"2022-12-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=15702"},"modified":"2021-11-06T20:30:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T00:30:42","slug":"tac-013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/12\/30\/tac-013\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 013"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I mean, where to start. As if the villains from last issue weren\u2019t dopey enough, we get this. Love the hook \u201cI\u2019m invulnerable from the back.\u201d Well, you have 3 other sides, buddy. A Janice C. tags in for color this month, most likely Janice Cohen, I think. Our man\u2019s trying to shake off the cobwebs after his fall last issue when a shadow looms over him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CB-lingo. Tres hip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hog-humps!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is, like mindboggling. I\u2019m kind of speechless. A CB-talking, truck driver, hog-themed superhero. The 70s were something else. Spidey indignantly asks if he picked a fight just to prove himself and gets a 10-4. Our outraged hero rushes off, saying a murder could be taking place during all this, but he finds Flash beat up, but alive. He says Brother Power seemed about to finish him off when he & Sha-Shan stopped cold, like they heard a message in their helmets. Spidey looks outside in time to see them escaping in a car and tries to take off after them, but Razorback grabs him out of the air. Razorback says he was watching the same car, and put a homemade tracer on it, so they can follow it. This is the family business he mentioned. What luck!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This comic is off the rails nuts. The\u2026 Big Pig\u2026 does a wheelie as they lurch into action. Meanwhile, their quarry to a fancy estate outside the city, where the power behind Brother Love & Sister Sun is not happy they used their powers in public, and is revealed to be\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I can\u2019t win Archie\u2019s No Prize offhand. I know Hatey first appeared in a pretty wild, early issue of Fantastic Four. Turns out it was #21. Wild, wild story wherein the villain used his \u201chate ray\u201d to  make amplify feelings of hatred and division among people and was eventually unmasked as maybe being Adolf Hitler, not as dead as advertised. Looks like his last appearance before this was Creatures On The Loose #17. I guess he fought Man-Wolf? But he\u2019s 2 years out from the retcon that makes him a clone of Hitler. Then any appearances he made over the years were new clones. Wacky. Anyway, this guy doesn\u2019t seem like he\u2019d share the vision of love Sha-Shan and her man were claiming to espouse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Razorback is\u2026 something. He tells the boys he\u2019s after his younger sister, Bobby Sue (\u201cfinest little chick in Texarkana,\u201d which is certainly not weird at all), who\u2019s been brainwashed by the cult as they moved across the country. Then Flash lets us know Sha-Shan told him all kinds of exposition between panels. She was apparently with her dad at their new temple in Vietnam when he told her there\u2019s a precarious balance between light & darkness, and \u201can emissary of darkness\u201d has come and empowered a guy, and she has to be the light that balances him, because her dad\u2019s too old. So, that\u2019s how she wound up marrying a supervillain, and they fled her temple as it was blown up in the war to go start the cult. Sheesh. At any rate, Spider-Man convinces the boys to stay with the truck while he sneaks in to get the situation, and soon he spies Hate-Monger through a window. He read H-M died in FF 21 in the paper, so he\u2019s very surprised. Meanwhile, Hatey is claiming to be the evil being that came from space to empower Achmed, which is really gonna be tossed out, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But\u2026 How does Bobby Sue shoot the beam without a partner? And how is Sha-Shan \u201cbalancing\u201d this darkness by just going along with it? This is a mess. I presume it will only get messier. In the letters, a woman applauds The White Tiger as a chance for people in mostly white communities to see good things about Latinos, which is\u2026 awkward, but I mean, if that was actually happening, all praise due. They give Bill Mantlo a few paragraphs to talk about Hector, saying he was the first character he created at Marvel, and how thrilled he\u2019s been by the response he\u2019s gotten. He also casually let me know White Tiger came out of co-creator George Perez\u2019s first Marvel gig, which I didn\u2019t know. The man who\u2019d go on to be one of the biggest names in the industry got his start in Deadly Hands of Kung Fu. Ya never know. Mantlo also mentions Perez\u2019s wife, Yvie, translated all the Spanish in Tiger\u2019s initial adventures. Maybe she kept helping in TAC, he doesn\u2019t quite say. But that\u2019s all pretty interesting info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mean, where to start. As if the villains from last issue weren\u2019t dopey enough, we get this. Love the hook \u201cI\u2019m invulnerable from the back.\u201d Well, you have 3 other sides,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,12,1439,52,1438,37,348,121,2],"class_list":["post-15702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-mantlo","tag-flash-thompson","tag-hate-monger","tag-mike-esposito","tag-razorback","tag-sal-buscema","tag-sha-shan-nguyen","tag-spectacular-spider-man","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15702","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=15702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15703,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15702\/revisions\/15703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}