{"id":19223,"date":"2023-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=19223"},"modified":"2022-06-13T11:46:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T15:46:08","slug":"tac-254","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/12\/19\/tac-254\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 254"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not a great cover. And what\u2019s going to hurt? Is Spider-Man being dropped by those electric tentacles or picked up by them? Not great. So, despite how last issue ended, Kraven\u2019s not in this. And I looked at the timeline, and he will not appear again before the Spider-Titles are relaunched and DeMatteis is off the books. Another dropped plot. I wonder how abruptly the folks were fired off these books. Seems like DeMatteis, at least, had a lot of irons in the fire. Anyway, speaking of, we\u2019re dealing with that Mueller guy now. Tom DeFalco tags in to script over a DeMatteis plot this month. A plot that begins with Spider-Man shirtless and strapped to a weird chair, covered in cables, as the Mueller guy, narrates about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He sure grea a lot of hair since last we saw him. What disease is he talking about? AIDS, I guess? Not exactly new at the time. He sure loves that dumb quote about the devil, he said the same thing to Osborn. Spider-Man flashes back to how he got here, beginning at The Daily Bugle, where I forgot Osborn is the new owner. He\u2019s complimenting Peter on photos he took for a story on \u201cthe AIDS hospice\u201d (confirmed!) and being manipulative and whatnot. The usual Osborn thing. Peter is uncomfortable and trying to leave when a delighted Normie Osborn runs up and jumps into the arms of his Uncle Pete, excited that Gran\u2019pa is teaching him about newspapers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JJJ says the day is coming when justice will be served as he looks at a pistol in his desk. Gonna shoot him, Jonah? I mean, I wish somebody would, but I don\u2019t think that can kill him anymore. Meanwhile, in the present, it\u2019s typical DeMatteis sadness and torture, as whoever this guy is forces Spider-Man to think about all his dead people, now including Ben Reilly and the infant child they were never supposed to mention again and keep mentioning. As Mueller turns up the sad-o-meter or whatever, his big goon, preposterously named \u201cSir,\u201d feels compassion for Spider-Man, but has apparently been taught that\u2019s weakness. Then Spidey imagines Aunt May telling him he\u2019s great and she loves him, and Mueller is horrified that his subject feels calm and at peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Funny to bring up Marvel\u2019s bankruptcy like that. But also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Legacy of Evil is the subject of a one-shot starring Peter Parker as Spider-Man but published while Ben Reilly was Spider-Man, which is very hard to place in the timeline, but which we will see next block of this period. Osborn says he\u2019s not going to fire Ben, but instead wants him to hunt down the real Green Goblin and exonerate the Osborn name. Shades of OJ Simpson. Back in the present, Mueller quotes Dune (\u201cFear is the mind killer\u201d) and then cranks up his inexplicable bad feelings machine to make Spider-Man remember being a toddler told his parents died, and this turns out to be an error, as Spider-Man becomes so enraged he tears loose from the machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mueller is able to drug Spider-Man and hook him back to the machine in remarkable time, and we get back to the extended flashback, where Peter\u2019s Spider Sense alerts him to trouble in Osborn\u2019s office, where Sir has seemingly taken out some bodyguard and is advancing on Norman. So, naturally, Spider-Man soon smashes through the window, terrifying Normie, but is promptly tackled out the window toward the rope ladder dangling from a waiting helicopter, which he REALLY SHOULD HAVE SEEN AND HEARD on his way in, but somehow didn\u2019t. As the chopper whisks them away, Spider-Man remembers Sir as a guy who fought Daredevil recently (Sure, sure, he\u2019d fore sure recognize this random Mr. Clean dude immediately), and eventually tentacles come out of the chopper and zap him, as kind of\/sort of shown on the cover, knocking him out, and as we enter the final pages of the book, we\u2019re all caught up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sure, whatever. Same ol\u2019, same ol\u2019. What a let down after that dynamite issue of Adjectiveless before this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not a great cover. And what\u2019s going to hurt? Is Spider-Man being dropped by those electric tentacles or picked up by them? Not great. So, despite how last issue ended, Kraven\u2019s not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[153,113,1687,13,661,125,26,442,629,21,39,545,1688,121,2,124],"class_list":["post-19223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-al-milgrom","tag-ben-urich","tag-dr-mueller","tag-j-jonah-jameson","tag-jacob-conover","tag-jm-dematteis","tag-joe-robertson","tag-john-kalisz","tag-luke-ross","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-norman-osborn","tag-normie-osborn","tag-sir","tag-spectacular-spider-man","tag-spider-man","tag-tom-defalco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19223","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=19223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19224,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19223\/revisions\/19224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}