{"id":20079,"date":"2024-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=20079"},"modified":"2022-07-21T20:46:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T00:46:39","slug":"asm-385","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/02\/14\/asm-385\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 385"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This seems like a weird cover. Man, everything about these issues feels weird. Well, our loopy hero is furiously recapping his situation as he\u2019s sentenced to death, tho he\u2019s not totally sure what happened or what he\u2019s thinking right now, and then Ramshot jumps in front of him so they can\u2019t kill him, naturally, saying he saves lives and this is wrong. Then the bossman says they also came here to get a weapon that could kill Venom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just a lot of very un-Bagley-looking MJs in these issues. That guy won\u2019t take no for an answer, so after lighting a smoke, MJ shoves the lighter in his face, scaring him off. MJ recaps her recent life, and then agrees to dance with a different guy. Meanwhile, Spider-Man\u2019s off drugs and being briefed on the mission. They\u2019re gonna break into a government research center and steal an experimental teleporter that doesn\u2019t work. It splits subjects into atoms, and the inventors don\u2019t know how to put them back together, so these dorks want to put Venom in it. Spider-Man is on board, but it\u2019s clearly the lingering effect of the drug. Also, Ramshot gets sidelined for not being a monster. Then we check on May still being nervous about the parents, then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Can\u2019t just steal people\u2019s butts, officer. Back to Spider-Man, who helps the Jury avoid some kinda trap and get into the facility they plan to rob. They find the room they\u2019re looking for, and then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok. Back at the spot where they tortured Spider-Man, the leader guy tells Ramshot they were never going to kill Spider-Man, that the drugs and torture were to convince him to help them (??? How dumb are these guys?), but that he can\u2019t be a field agent anymore because he didn\u2019t know that and interfered anyway. Whatever, man. The Jury has found the teleporter, which preposterously comes as a gun-and-backpack combo. They try it, it vaporizes a thing, and they\u2019re happy. And that makes Spider-Man wake up and realize he was on drugs when he agreed to kill Venom, and guess what, he starts fighting them. The one with the Guardsman armor decides to \u201cteleport\u201d him for his inevitable betrayal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shout out to Batman. Whichever one\u2019s left standing (Who could tell?) says he\u2019s better than the others, and then Spider-Man pulls his helmet apart. Taken apart like the jobbers they are in 3 pages, like they shoulda been in the first issue of this 3-part nonsense. Guards come, and Spider-MAn leaves before they can see him, leaving the loser-bots to them. He checks where he was held captive, but it\u2019s been cleared out. So he goes home and finds Mary Jane asleep on the couch. And instead of apologizing or explaining or talking about anything of value between the 2 of them, he says they have to go see Nick. Nick Katzenberg was on their answering machine back in part 1 saying he had to see Peter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They went very early. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that\u2019s that. Would that it were really that easy to quit smoking. The Jury next appear in that godawful Arachnis Project mini I suffered through years ago. Closing a lot of loops. Peter Parker is a good person to be visiting Katzenberg. I don\u2019t care what happened to him, all the stuff I\u2019ve seen him do to Peter & MJ? Try to ruin their lives, try to get Peter killed? Sorry, buddy, yer on yer own. But I guess that\u2019s why Peter is a hero and I\u2019m just a guy reading comics. In true 90s comics fashion, the next issue begins Michelinie\u2019s final 4 on the series, but we have EIGHTEEN comics to look at before we get to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This seems like a weird cover. Man, everything about these issues feels weird. Well, our loopy hero is furiously recapping his situation as he\u2019s sentenced to death, tho he\u2019s not totally sure…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[9,35,253,259,339,21,1290,454,432,1289,2,465],"class_list":["post-20079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-amazing-spider-man","tag-aunt-may","tag-bob-sharen","tag-david-michelinie","tag-mark-bagley","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-mary-parker","tag-nick-katzenberg","tag-randy-emberlin","tag-richard-parker","tag-spider-man","tag-the-jury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20079","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=20079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20088,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20079\/revisions\/20088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}