{"id":16983,"date":"2023-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=16983"},"modified":"2022-01-24T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T21:49:25","slug":"tac-193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/05\/09\/tac-193\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 193"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I like the rawness of this cover. Sal went a lot looser and more ragged and it looks cool. Wonder what prompted it. Time for some much-needed damage control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good job, Pete-o. He\u2019s swinging around talking about how he was engulfed in fear and paranoia until his hallucinatory adventure healed him. You know, the end of every 3rd JM DeMatteis story. Now he\u2019s swinging around trying to find Puma to stop him from doing whatever horrible thing he\u2019s gonna do that Black Crow coulda been, you know, specific about. Then he sees a discarded newspaper declaring \u201cSenator Maguire to speak at human rights rally\u201d and knows Puma\u2019s gonna kill that guy. Ok, sure. Why not? It makes no sense, but why should this story start making sense now? But Puma seems to be tracking Spider-Man, instead, and a particular panel leads me to once again ask why his belt has a big \u201cE\u201d on it. There\u2019s a whole page of babble about how he\u2019s taken control of his destiny or whatever, and then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that came out of nowhere. He decides that \u201cno one will see he\u2019s great\u201d if he does this silently, and smashes through the window. He remembers how he\u2019s only ever killed evil people in the past (Really?), and how this guy\u2019s done nothing, as he cuts the guy\u2019s lip to scare him or something. Then his security bursts in to get beaten and slashed up. Puma says he\u2019ll let them live so they can remember this experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They fight around town and then Puma makes the mistake of calling Spider-Man \u201cParker,\u201d reminding him that Puma\u2019s yet another guy who knows his secret and could threaten his family, and as he so often does after being \u201chealed\u201d or whatever, Spider-Man flies right back into a rage, punching Puma into a big sign and electrocuting him, then picking up up and preparing to throw him off a roof to his death like on the cover. Whatever, at least this is almost over. If Spider-Man about to chuck someone off a cliff feels like a recently played beat, well\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You got it. Spidey declares he won\u2019t fight Puma and proceeds to get all slashed up. He takes that remarkably well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So all this was just to take away Puma\u2019s knowledge of Spider-Man\u2019s secret? Sheesh. The Crow says it\u2019s a gift for his courage and trust, and Spidey says thanks, and then a ton of cops bust onto the roof. Puma decides to run for it and gets ventilated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wonder if this title inspider Dan Slott\u2019s own terrible idea, The Web of Life And Destiny, decades later. I wish I could believe that\u2019s it for overwrought psycho-babble stories for awhile, but the next issue begins a story called \u201cDeath of Vermin\u201d as DeMatteis begins his march toward a big anniversary issue with dangling Harry Osborn plot threads, so you know\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like the rawness of this cover. Sal went a lot looser and more ragged and it looks cool. Wonder what prompted it. Time for some much-needed damage control. Good job, Pete-o….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[1565,253,125,21,364,37,121,2],"class_list":["post-16983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-black-crow","tag-bob-sharen","tag-jm-dematteis","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-puma","tag-sal-buscema","tag-spectacular-spider-man","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983","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=16983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16993,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16983\/revisions\/16993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}