{"id":15977,"date":"2023-02-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=15977"},"modified":"2021-11-09T21:54:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T01:54:50","slug":"asm-363","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/02\/03\/asm-363\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 363"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This one seems to have been bought off the rack. Maybe I got smart. \u201cHey, Bags, you\u2019ve had some serious work to do lately, this cover can just be big heads.\u201d So, JJJ vs. Carnage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let the record show that this was the first reference to that song I\u2019d ever seen. I had not heard the song, and I don\u2019t think I did for many, many years. But now\u2026 that\u2019s weird, right? Venom\u2019s a bar away from saying he and Spider-Man will be making love. Spidey keeps on recapping on the following page, telling Venom he thinks they should call the Avengers, but Venom says they\u2019d try to arrest him, and Spidey promised to let him go free. Meanwhile, at The bugle, an unusually shaken Robbie is describing Carnage to a police detective when\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Venom being such a jokester feels weird now, but it was certainly his MO back then. This raises a question I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve ever considered: What do normal people think is the deal with Venom and Spider-Man? A big monster that is also clearly wearing a Spider-Man costume and kills people running around\u2026 isn\u2019t that\u2026 weird? Has Spider-Man ever tried to explain to the public \u201cHey, I\u2019m not with that guy?\u201d Seems unlikely, but\u2026 awkward. As the Spider-guys swing away, a guy asks Robbie if they should update JJJ\u2019s obituary. The guy kind of looks like comic book writer\/editor Paul Levitz, which I assume is why Michelinie has Robbie call him \u201cLevitz.\u201d Spidey asks Venom to tell him about Kasady, and doesn\u2019t learn much except he didn\u2019t like to exercise and he did like heavy metal music before they hear screams below. Carnage stopped on his way to kill a young woman, and Spidey has to stop Mr. \u201cI protect innocents\u201d from threatening her friends because they can\u2019t say which way he went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The hilarious, stereotypical mustache guy is well on board, producing a knife and about to kill a fellow concertgoer when Spider-Man webs the blade out of his hand. The distraction allows Venoms ot smash up from under the stage and yoink JJJ to safety, but then Venom\u2019s lassoed by Carnage and slammed to the ground. Through the ground, into Penn Station below, which seems\u2026 implausible, to say the least. The hole\u2019s not even that deep. But, regardless, Carnage is kicked into said hole by Spider-Man, and just sees all the commuters as new targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carnage fires little darts of his symbiote at them, almost hitting Spider-Man. Venom throws a big punch, but Carnage catches it, and then runs his symbiote up into Venom\u2019s, where they begin to tear each other apart until Spider-Man separates them. In doing so, he accidentally knocks Carnage onto the 3rd rail, electrocuting him. But it doesn\u2019t even slow him down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Venom swats Carnage from behind, giving Spider-Man a chance to free JJJ and make him actually leave this time. Then he notes the control panel for the PA system, and hops off to it. He knows sonics hurt Venom, and hopes that goes for both of them as he kicks everything to the max.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man is saved by Mr. Fantastic and The Torch, showing up with a new sonic cannon. Reed explains they were waiting for the signal they got from Spidey pushing that button, letting Venom know Spider-Man never planned to honor their deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good bit between Spidey and Jonah there. And so, Carnage\u2019s first rampage comes to an end, and Venom is back on the board. But, the cover said the countdown to Spider-Man\u2019s 30th Anniversary began this issue, and by that, they mean this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who could they be? It\u2019s pretty obvious, huh? But how could that work? The answer is silly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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