{"id":17112,"date":"2023-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=17112"},"modified":"2022-01-24T22:44:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T02:44:19","slug":"tac-196","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/05\/24\/tac-196\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 196"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here\u2019s a weird thing. I bought this from McKay\u2019s not remembering that I actually had a random copy of this issue from when I was a kid. No idea why, really, but I had it. But the McKays copy was nicer despite costing less than what I paid in 1992, so I kept that one. And yet, despite having had it all these years, I don\u2019t remember a bit of it. I remember one thing, I guess, but I don\u2019t really remember what happens. I didn\u2019t even remember Zemo being in it. I wonder if I actually read it the first time. Really wish I could remember why I even had it. Maybe it came in a 3-pack. That\u2019s plausible. The danger with those things was you don\u2019t know what the middle comic is. Anyway, whatever, we\u2019re back, seconds after we left off, Zemo repeating his threat to have the weirdo squad kill Kafka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I kinda think DeMatteis should\u2019ve just become a therapist instead of a comic book writer. He seems to be more into psychoanalyzing his characters than anything else. I wouldn\u2019t normally run Zemo explaining how he\u2019s not dead after his last appearance, but the way it\u2019s explained is so dumb I can\u2019t handle it alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHow would they put it in the comics?\u201d says the Freddy Kreuger looking Nazi pointlessly explaining how he\u2019s not dead to someone who really doesn\u2019t need to know. I must say, tho, I think I prefer that to the habit that cropped up in the last couple decades of characters coming back from the dead with no explanation whatsoever, implying, at best, no one cared to explain it, and at worst, no one involved knew the character was dead in the first place. No good options there. Anyway, what if I told you that, 2 years from now, this Zemo will marry the female clone of his dad from Fear Itself? She will re-emerge, less dead than advertised, and claiming that the whole story of her being a clone of his dad was not true, and she\u2019s just some lady. Whose last name is still \u201cZemo.\u201d And they get married. Man, the 90s were insane. But that\u2019s for later! Right now, Zemo is still monologuing about how he now believes what he looks like is what he always was inside, and wants to continue his experiments, blah blah blah, and almost stabs one of the mutates to make a point, so Spidey flies back into his usual DeMatteis rage, but can\u2019t do anything. Zemo decides he wants to experiment on Kafka to see what\u2019s lurking inside her, and then we flashback to her typically DeMatteis nightmare childhood, where he mother was savagely cruel to her younger sister who was born with completely insane birth defects ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?? Is this an all-time great SPIDER-MAN ADVENTURE? We go on to learn that Kakfak left her sister in a home after her mom died, and then her sister died shortly thereafter, and then there is an INCREDIBLY CRUEL juxtaposition of the poor girl\u2019s face and Zemo\u2019s current scarred mug, and I am just disgusted beyond words at this stupid, stupid comic book. I\u2019m sure glad DeMatteis didn\u2019t become a shrink. Whatever, Kafka snaps, Spider-Man snaps, he Buscema punches the entire mob of monsters in a single punch (Only in comics) and begins wrestling Vermin. Zemo monologues about what heroes must be hiding behind their masks as Spidey continues to battle the weirdos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blah blah, they get his mask off, Zemo puts it on talking about how much sadness he can feel \u201cin the very fabric,\u201d and then the new half-Vermin, half-Edward (Exactly down the middle, looking very silly) rips it off. He throws Spider-Man his mask and starts beating up Zemo, and says he\u2019s going to eat him. Kafka is narrating, but I\u2019m not reading it. Spider-Man stops him, they fight, Vermin wins, he\u2019s about to kill Zemo, Kafak stops him, tells him to let Vermin die and let Zemo live. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edward sez Vermin is dead, Ashley\u2019s gonna try to help the other ones. Edward says he has to stand trial for Vermin\u2019s crimes to ever be free. Spider-Man swings home under Kafka\u2019s narration, now addressed directly to her dead mother & sister, that tonight, she learned she is a hero (WWWWWHAT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am\u2026 exhausted from reading this garbage. I\u2019m like Spider-Man in a DeMatteis comic, battered into submission. I\u2019m done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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