{"id":19108,"date":"2023-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=19108"},"modified":"2022-06-12T17:27:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T21:27:50","slug":"mtu-vol-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/11\/22\/mtu-vol-2-4\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU Vol. 2 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the soaring highs of the return of Spider-Man\u2019s 2nd best writer to\u2026 The most superfluous book in the line. Wham! I mean, no slight to anyone working on it, either, but I, a person who was buying 2-5 Spider-Man comics a month at this time, had no idea this even existed when it was coming out. Tom Peyer continues as writer, but has a 3rd penciler in 4 issues in Josh Hood. Not usually a good sign for a new book, but maybe they planned to rotate people since it\u2019s a different kind of comic, I dunno. Andrew Pepoy inks, Tom Smith colors. Things begin hard to describe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did that guy just turn into a Man-Thing? Is that possible? I don\u2019t know much about ol\u2019 Manny, last seen around here in MTU 68<\/a> or 91<\/a>, depending on whether we go by posts or chronological order. We continue through this guy\u2019s life in a jumbled order that I must say I am finding it hard to care about. I think he somehow swapped bodies with Man-Thing, who is at his job, burning people who fear him? Here\u2019s Spider-Man:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a very late-90s looking book. Cut to this \u201cAuthority\u201d being helped by various techno-looking goons, much more techno-looking himself, preparing to dea with Spider-Man learning a little about who he is. This is also very confusing. His goons hypothesize about why it\u2019s raining all over the world simultaneously (It\u2019s Heroes Return, the event ending the Heroes Reborn stunt, which has Spider-Man in it and maybe should be on the blog, but I gave my copies away years ago, and I wasn\u2019t gonna re-buy it) for a whole page before someone finally explains something going on in this comic. Sort of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maybe I\u2019m just not in the mood, but this comic is really putting me off. It\u2019s half over and most of it has been barely comprehensible stuff about characters we don\u2019t know. No wonder this series didn\u2019t last 12 issues. That trend continues as Random Guy\/Man-Thing walks through the subway, while Man-Thing\/Random Guy hides in an alley so as not to scare anyone and make them ignite. Meanwhile, Spider-Man\u2019s heading to the address on the card he was given, and goes in through a window to find himself in a pitch black room with a spotlight. Man-Thing-in-Random-Guy\u2019s-body arrives home as one of his coworkers is there trying to see if he\u2019s ok since he\u2019s been acting weird. Then he senses the guy in his body nearby and just jumps out a window, scaring his wife and his coworker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ol\u2019 dude and Man-Thing unite as Spider-Man tries to project good vibes at them. I have no idea what\u2019s going on.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok! This was an aggressively unpleasant comic book! No one even told us why Man-Thing and Carl\u2019s predicament was so dangerous! Was it, even? Did The Authority lie about that? This is tremendously frustrating. And there\u2019s more of it next post\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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