{"id":19019,"date":"2023-11-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=19019"},"modified":"2022-06-15T20:32:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T00:32:03","slug":"tac-253","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/11\/16\/tac-253\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 253"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kill! Luke Ross & Dan Green are back so Luke can do his own Todd McFarlane Spider-Man instead of having Deodato do it (Better than him!), thank you very much. Well, Calypso sets the boys loose on each other again, as rewinding a little seems to be the thing to do these days, and then there\u2019s a 2-page splash of them facing off, and then It\u2019s Fightin\u2019 Time. She tells them to fight until they\u2019re both dead, which seems kinda hard to do. Outside of a \u201cSuperman and Doomsday both punch each other so hard they die at the exact same moment\u201d situation, seems like one of them should live. I bet they both do, tho! It somehow takes another page of them squaring off before Spider-Man brains Baby Kraven with a rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Love people saying \u201cHades\u201d in old comics. So natural. Personally, I feel like if you can\u2019t print the word you want, you should rephrase entirely, but I seem to be in the minority. These days, it\u2019s just tons of typewriter symbols. \u201c$%#@!\u201d It\u2019s annoying and distracting and it sucks. Anyway, what\u2019s Aunt Anna figured out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course. Not a bad guess, tho. Things get less funny as she storms off saying MJ will learn the hard way, like she did. MJ is taken aback. Maybe we\u2019ll learn why Mr. Watson was written out of the book, after all. Meanwhile, Gibbon and Grizzly are having their stupid Bearmobile hauled out of the drink, and then they hear an explosion and catch The White Rabbit Gang robbing a bank. I so don\u2019t care. So don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man does a page of internal turmoil and so on, then picks up a spear and chucks it into Calypso\u2019s shoulder, shocking her drummers into stopping. Freed of the mind control, Spidey and Lil Kraven begin fighting the drummers so they can\u2019t get back at it, and Spidey is sure to let us know in his internal monologue that the spear didn\u2019t go very deep into Calypso\u2019s shoulder, just enough to throw everyone off. That seems unlikely!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some unusual-for-comics grownup problem solving! Good thing he didn\u2019t shake her other hand, that\u2019s the arm with the spear wound. I can\u2019t recall if JM DeMatteis does anything else with this Kraven, but boy, you won\u2019t believe what kind of dumb stuff he gets up to in the hands of other writers in the early 2000s. Well, anyway, we cut to that Mueller guy Norman was talking to last issue at Ravencroft. He\u2019s told Kafka was fired (Did I miss that or just forget?), and they\u2019re in chaos and transition, but Mueller doesn\u2019t care about that, he says he just wants to see his patient. The guy showing him around says he didn\u2019t even know someone was in this cell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No idea who either of these guys is. Well, they obviously have beef with Spider-Man, and I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll learn all about it. Spider-Man arrives home and says hi to MJ, briefly tells her about his day. She says there\u2019s some dinner left in the fridge, and he goes down to check that out, and guess who\u2019s waitin\u2019 for him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Really, man? I was so ready to believe this awful garbage was over. Thrilled, even. Meanwhile, in the letters, the insane Man-Wolf guy from last issue is back, overjoyed that his dude showed up in TAC 248<\/a> (Did he? I forgot!). Remember how he was quitting Spider-Man forever? How\u2019d he see the next issue? HMMMMMMM. Maybe he was.. Being insane and overdramatic! No, comics fans are notoriously levelheaded. Someone must\u2019ve told him\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kill! Luke Ross & Dan Green are back so Luke can do his own Todd McFarlane Spider-Man instead of having Deodato do it (Better than him!), thank you very much. Well, Calypso…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,220,120,1687,873,125,442,45,629,21,1688,121,2,50,837],"class_list":["post-19019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aunt-anna","tag-calypso","tag-dan-green","tag-dr-mueller","tag-grizzly","tag-jm-dematteis","tag-john-kalisz","tag-kraven-the-hunter","tag-luke-ross","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-sir","tag-spectacular-spider-man","tag-spider-man","tag-the-gibbon","tag-white-rabbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019","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=19019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19588,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019\/revisions\/19588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}