{"id":17093,"date":"2023-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=17093"},"modified":"2022-01-24T22:34:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T02:34:21","slug":"tac-194","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/05\/22\/tac-194\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 194"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Death of Vermin? How can this be, as we have seen him in future comics? Could it be a swerve? We shall see. Weird cover! Weird kiss! We begin with the thrice-damned hard to read cursive text DeMatteis likes for internal monologue when he\u2019s being artsy. It\u2019s not good! I guess it\u2019s Spider-Man\u2019s, tho the first page is a bunch of eyes in the darkness like the ones on the cover. Then a 2-page splash with a nice \u201cSpidey in motion\u201d thing by Sal. Ok, so the monologue is not Spider-Man, it someone saying they weren\u2019t \u201can eyewitness to all this,\u201d but have heard so much about it. Sure. And that Spider-Man had recently been through an event that changed him, and made him want to see the good in himself and the world for the first time in a long time. Uh, ok! He\u2019s only been depressed in this comic. That\u2019s \u00bc of his overall adventures. But ok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nice lights & darks on MJ by Bob Sharen. That sort of thing was hard to do in these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, naturally this issue picks up right where the last one left off. It\u2019s not like there\u2019s 3 other monthlies to take into account, no sir, just keep pretending this is the only Spider-Man comic. I just think this is rude to the other creative teams, maybe that\u2019s just me. The mystery narrator, continues over panels of Vermin trying to escape his cell, talking about how Spider-Man is so lucky to have people in his life, and is revealed to be Dr. Kafka. A raging Vermin yells he doesn\u2019t want to die, that he kept him safe, as he slowly transforms back to Edward Whelan. Sal\u2019s an old hand at this kind of thing, having done a long run on Hulk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sal seems to be having fun with those eyes. Glad someone\u2019s having fun. Edward is starting to grapple with the fact that Vermin, you know, ate people, and wondering how horrible a person he must be, while Ashley tells him he can\u2019t blame himself for what Baron Zemo did to him. As it happens, I recently read the Captain America story that DeMatteis created Vermin in. It\u2019s funny that he wound up being a Spider-Man thing. We look back in on Peter & MJ, now slow dancing around the apartment, all forgiven, tumbling into bed, as Kafka\u2019s narration talks about how she wishes she had someone to depend on like that. Back wherever Kafka is (Is this her apartment???), Edward is seeing those eyes in his sleep, and half-turns into Vermin, but resists. Ashley comes running in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elsewhere, Peter wakes from his own nightmare, and tells MJ he\u2019s just got to go clear his head after all he went through with Puma and Black Crow. So he goes back out in the rain at 5am. Also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s something you don\u2019t see every day. A page of Spidey swinging panels over which Kafka\u2019s narration says if he ever stops being a superhero, he\u2019d be a great therapist, then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uh\u2026 wut? The weird monsters drag Kafka and Edward out of the office and out onto the street, beating up cops on the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ya blew it, Parker! More on this weirdness next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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