{"id":182,"date":"2019-06-13T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=182"},"modified":"2019-04-18T01:20:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T05:20:29","slug":"pptsm-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/06\/13\/pptsm-48\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 048"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As Bellandonna continues to taunt Spider-Man through the porthole in her death room, Spidey webs up some masks for himself and the new Prowler to fight off the gas, and eventually manages to smash out the window. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He quickly discovers Belladonna was never actually there in the first place, just projecting herself onto the window. Spidey lugs the unconscious Prowler out onto the street and lays out for the cops why he\u2019s their actual guy for the murder last night. Sergeant Snider appears and tells Spider-Man he needs to give a statement and cooperate so they can actually convict this guy, but Spidey just leaps away, as usual. Even he doesn\u2019t know why, and spends the trip home psychoanalysing himself for it. He gets home and takes a shower, and then discovers the lamp in his living room doesn\u2019t work. In short order he gets a phone call from JJJ giving him grief for working at the Globe. Pete becomes pretty sure JJJ wants him back at the Bugle, and given how weird and gross the situation at the Globe is getting, that might be a good idea. He\u2019s preparing to fix his lamp when Deb Whitman knocks on his door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Was she gonna leave a note or something? She’s surprised to see him and can’t come up with a good reason to be here. He invites her in while he works on the lamp, and she acts uncomfortable because he\u2019s only wearing a bathrobe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, Deb. Also: Is that really a bear? Looks like a dog, I don\u2019t know. Deb suggests throwing it in the bathtub, but Pete\u2019s Spidey gear is in there, so he makes an excuse about dark room chemicals and puts the fire out with his living room curtains, which melt onto it. After this wacky adventure, Pete gets dressed and dumps the bear\/dog on the trash and he & Deb go out for coffee. Deb Whitman didn\u2019t get her feelings hurt for once, hooray! Some random dude comes by and takes the bear\/dog off the trash immediately. Kinda like when Peter left his microscope on Uncle Ben\u2019s grave back in ASM 181. Can\u2019t put anything down for a second in this town. Meanwhile, at the hospital, the new Prowler wakes up…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Real smart keeping those gloves there, officer. He steals a car and escapes, meaning to find a way to exact revenge on Belladonna. The next day, Peter checks in with Aunt May, who won\u2019t have time for a visit today because she\u2019s \u201cgoing motoring with a friend.\u201d Nursing home life seems to be treating her well, and Stern, at least, seems to be taking the chance to make her less frail and not always on death\u2019s door like she had been for the last, uh, entire history of the character. It\u2019s not the dramatic, frankly impossible de-aging she\u2019s had in the last few years of comics, but it\u2019s a good decision. nstead of visiting Aunt May, Pete heads over to the offices of the place that rents the loft he was almost killed in last night…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, well! Swinging across town, Spidey puts it together: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He swings over to her place to confront her, but gets her sister instead the questionably named, Narda Ravanna, who jumps right into telling him their whole backstory. How her sister inherited a business from her 2nd husband, and how they turned it into a huge success, creating fashions and cosmetics. How Roderick Kingsley tried to sabotage them by having a model claim their cosmetics cause skin disorders, and how the bad publicity ruined them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The twist! Narda\/Belladonna tells Kingsley Spider-Man works for her now and is on his way to kill him. Then she calls up her goons and tells them to meet her at their lair. It\u2019s all going down. In transit, Spider-Man has doubts about all this. Why would Belladonna be dumb enough to rent the death trap loft in her own name? He gets to Kingsley\u2019s and watches through the skylight, waiting for something to happen. At the same time, Desiree Vaughan-Pope appears back at her place, having been napping instead of going to Kingsley\u2019s, and Narda calls the cops to tip them off that something\u2019s going down at Kingsley\u2019s place. Then: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that\u2019s it. Spider-Man is over. It\u2019s been a good run, folks, thanks for reading. Wait, there\u2019s more pages? Oh ok. Well, the cops burst in and Narda confirms over the bugs planted in the place that Spider-Man is dead. She rolls out to her hideout, everything coming up Millhouse, but she\u2019s got one problem: The Prowler shows up hellbent on revenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He decides to toss her off the balcony, give her the same death as the man he accidentally killed, when Spider-Man shows up! Whaaaa? Outside the apartment, Belladonna\u2019s goons (Named Manny, Moe & Jack) finally notice something\u2019s going on and burst in just in time to see Spidey lay out the new Prowler. Then Spidey helpfully explains how he\u2019s not dead, and it is LABORED, man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The guys in the Pep Boys logo are named Manny, Moe & Jack. also, I think it\u2019s obvious that balloon was meant for Spider-Man. This is a very strange bit, bad execution is the last thing it needs. Anyway… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can tell pretty quickly why Stern graduates to Amazing soon. His stories are snappy and unusual, much more interesting than anything in the last few years. And, especially with Amazing clearly in a kind of transitional period, Spectacular is starting to feel like the \u201cmain\u201d Spider-Man book. It only makes sense to bring Rog over to the big stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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