{"id":19310,"date":"2023-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=19310"},"modified":"2022-06-13T16:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T20:36:01","slug":"ssm-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/12\/11\/ssm-23\/","title":{"rendered":"SSM 23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So much eyesore text in this era, my goodness. Ok, let\u2019s wrap this up. Spidey\u2019s in trouble, Doc\u2019s in trouble. Doc is now racing back to his physical form, tho, a detail we didn\u2019t get last time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Isn\u2019t it nighttime? Mid-morning? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sure, ok. Strange hits his foe with a zap that reveals it was actually a couple of the little gremlins mooshed together via magic, now much easier to deal with small. If I have to read this awful dialogue, so do you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The 90s have much to answer for. Spidey\u2019s gambit results in Buel being chucked into the snowsnake dimension, and a lot of his \u201cboyz\u201d follow. Then Strange returns in astral form to interrogate the dummies who started all this. While he does, Spidey is once again drawn to some mysterious thing, so powerfully he can barely control himself, but Strange tells him it\u2019s their responsibility to fix this, and him using that word makes Spider-Man flashback to his origin and then snap out of it. Uh, sure. So the good guys go through a portal, and Buel comes back from his portal spouting more painfully terrible dialogue, and then follows, making his goons drag the 2 dummies with them. The heroes go through many portals in a big montage until\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here the book is interrupted by a big glossy spread advertising the Heroes Return relaunches of FF, Iron Man, Captain America and Avengers. And the stunt really did its job, these core Marvel properties that weren\u2019t selling too well before being taken over by the Image studios returned strong and mostly stayed that way, both creatively and financially (FF less so than the others on both fronts, sadly).  But, anyway, Spider-Man is distracted long enough for Buel to grab the thingie. A whole page of his horrible dialogue gets him to announcing he\u2019s gonna turn our world into his. Whatever, man, I am really not invested. Doc Strange returns to his body and just instantly appears inside, despite them having to spend an issue and a half going through random portals to get there, and starts having a magic beam fight with Buel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He does, tho, and in 2 pages cutting between Spidey action and Buel\u2019s horrible dialogue, Spidey finds himself where he needs to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Buel \u201chilariously\u201d called Strange \u201csome ear, nose and throat guy\u201d earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Uncle Ben? Aunt May? Baby May? Ben Reilly? Mark Gruenwald? Who knows? An ambiguous ending to a misfire of an arc. We didn\u2019t even get to the subplots this issue. Ah, well. Next time, something unusual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So much eyesore text in this era, my goodness. Ok, let\u2019s wrap this up. Spidey\u2019s in trouble, Doc\u2019s in trouble. Doc is now racing back to his physical form, tho, a detail…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[1251,49,1698,275,1697,13,523,417,473,2,452],"class_list":["post-19310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-billy-walters","tag-doctor-strange","tag-ellen-hibbert","tag-gregory-wright","tag-hope-hibbert","tag-j-jonah-jameson","tag-mike-weiringo","tag-scott-hanna","tag-sensational-spider-man","tag-spider-man","tag-todd-dezago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310","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=19310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19321,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310\/revisions\/19321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}