{"id":15704,"date":"2023-01-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=15704"},"modified":"2021-11-06T20:36:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T00:36:26","slug":"tac-014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/01\/02\/tac-014\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bacon Man is still in the building. I don\u2019t even wanna dignify the title with an acknowledgement. A \u201cJ. Tartas\u201d pitches in with the usual guys on line art, and Irene Vartanoff colors. The boys are still about to die. Buford says if he could just reach his belt buckle. Without asking what ti would do, Spidey gets to work on the stupidest rescue possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So Spider-Man can canonically make his web\u2026 what, not sticky at all?… by pushing the button a different way? Fart noise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stan Lee liked to brag that, while most comics were written for children, Marvel comics were written for more sophisticated minds, and that\u2019s why Marvel was such a success in the 60s and why they became so big with college kids. Most of the time, feels like Bill Mantlo wrote for 8-year olds. I mean, 99% of the most ridiculous, nonsensical, childish things posted to this blog have his name on them. Him and everyone working on the middle period of the 90s Clone Saga tie for the worst. But, sure, Spider-Man\u2019s can-do-anything-web called Razorback\u2019s truck, which just happened to not crash through the wall they were attached to while somehow shattering it, anyway, which frees the heroes without a scratch by collapsing a brick wall on them. Ok. I mean, I know this sort of thing would\u2019ve been done \u201cMarvel Method,\u201d so in theory, some part of this could\u2019ve been Sal\u2019s idea, but I can\u2019t fault Sal at all because he\u2019s done so many things that AREN\u2019T this stupid. I have to pin it to Mantlo. Speaking of stupid, as the boys rush off to save the day, Brother Love is told by a journalist of the bombing at his estate. Watching, Hate-Monger thinks when the bodies are found in the rubble, everyone will think Spider-Man was the culprit. Why would they? How\u2019s he so sure the bodies won\u2019t still be chained to part of the wall? Why would Spider-Man be dumb enough to hang out in a building he was blowing up? Ugh. Bro & Sis go inside their event, Achmed re-recapping their deal, and meet the boss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that doesn\u2019t much look like Hitler. I believe I have mentioned before how irritating it is when southern characters call a single individual \u201cy\u2019all.\u201d I\u2019d expect no less, tho. Spider-Man tells the boys to hide the truck and wait, then becomes Peter Parker and uses his press pass to get inside. That done, he sneaks around, knocks out some guards, THEN changes to Spider-Man (Why do the fighting as Peter?) and lets his cohorts in the back door just as the big show is getting underway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hey, good timing on that callback to ASM 5<\/a> for the blog, but as a justification for Flash being in this superhero fight, it leaves a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But\u2026 why would some Hulk villain adopt this ridiculous identity? Spidey gets zapped by Razorback\u2019s mane again, and then Hatey, whoever he is, gets control of both of them, and they start fighting. Elsewhere, Flash is sneakin\u2019 around trying to find and rescue the girls. He puts on the robe of a cultist knocked out earlier and leads Bobby Sue away from the display, saying The Mentor calls for her. How\u2019d he know to say that? Who cares? He starts leading her under the stadium to where the heroes are beating each other up while repeatedly apologizing, under control but aware of their actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man-Beast. The first of The High Evolutionary\u2019s \u201cNew Men,\u201d evolved from a wolf. He fought Thor in he & The Evolutionary\u2019s first appearance.  I don\u2019t know much else about him. Why in the world is he The Hate-Monger? Maybe next issue will explain…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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