{"id":20167,"date":"2024-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=20167"},"modified":"2022-07-22T23:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T03:20:44","slug":"sm-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/02\/21\/sm-43\/","title":{"rendered":"SM 43"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wow, this issue\u2019s clean! This looks like it just came off the press! Shiny and unblemished. I bet CGC would give it a 9.9 or some such. Too bad it\u2019s this comic and not a good one. Wonder where it came from. I guess eBay. Well, time to reduce its value. The Fear-Fraught Fist-Flinging Finale, don\u2019t you know. The Moran pitching in on colors before was Ericka, who\u2019s doing this issue solo and thus gets a full credit. It\u2019s recap page into 2-page splash like last time, mostly empty panels full of silhouettes as the army of Platoons fly after our heroes. Then we go to various silhouettes I\u2019m told are in various parts of the country calling to place orders for the Platoon suit. All they\u2019ve seen it do is get beaten by Spider-Man and Iron Fist, but the board of directors says they don\u2019t have enough phone lines to take all the orders. \u201cGet the battlesuit that fails in its mission, order now!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uh\u2026 ok. I don\u2019t know why any of that just happened, but sure. Iron Fist is not coming to the surface due to having been shot in the arm (Surely the world\u2019s most powerful martial artist wouldn\u2019t be knocked out by a laser in the arm???), so Spidey has to haul him out of the drink. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So we watched them all fly away, and the news lady said they were headed for Brooklyn, but now they\u2019re all\u2026 under the bridge? Standing on the water or something? If only they were visible on the page to figure out what was happening\u2026 Great storytelling. Spider-Man\u2019s web catches 4 of them, and the dialogue says it was 6, but now he\u2019s out of web fluid, and more are approaching. Quick page of ARMs taking more orders, then a splash of the heroes punching. This coulda been 1 issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So they\u2019re ON the bridge? So the heroes leapt into the water, climbed back up, overshot, climbed up to the very top of the bridge, and then jumped down to the Platoons on the actual lanes of the bridge? This comic sucks! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am running out of ways to react to both art and script that isn\u2019t just a heavy sigh. The heroes didn\u2019t die, of course. They lept up onto\u2026 fire escapes? Lee bothers to draw enough background so you can see fire escapes. Weren\u2019t they just on the bridge!? I know the newslady said they were \u201cat the very edge\u201d of it, but\u2026 sigh. So the baddies all shot each other in the crossfire, but now the 6* (*actually 4**) (**but now Lee only draws 3) Spidey webbed earlier are loose and coming after them, so it\u2019s time for more barely visible non-fighting. Iron Fist punches one in the arm as it shoots, and it then brings down a barely rendered building on top of some amount of the other ones, I can\u2019t tell. Then the various people who were calling to order Platoons are revealed as they all cancel. They are X-Men villain Shinobi Shaw (Last seen on the blog in Spider-Man Team-Up 1, I believe), Hydra, X-Men villain Sat-yr-9\u2026 Richard Fisk from witness protection???… GAUNTLET from JAIL\u2026 a US Army guy and The Slug. How was Gauntlet going to buy suits!? FROM JAIL!?! He has no money even NOT in jail!! This comic sucks! 2-page splash of the heroes hitting 2 more Platoons. Every splash, they each tell each other to do something, by name, at the same time. \u201cAim for their JOINTS, Spider-Man\u2026\u201d \u201cEXPOSE enough CIRCUITS on them, Fist\u2013\u201d Every splash. Why? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AIM is, of course, known for their distinctive monster-skull-masks. Oh wait, no they\u2019re not! Jae Lee just sucks! My bad! I will be happy to forget this story. I sure hope my next comic is at least competently produced\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, this issue\u2019s clean! This looks like it just came off the press! Shiny and unblemished. I bet CGC would give it a 9.9 or some such. Too bad it\u2019s this comic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[625,1721,286,418,2,423],"class_list":["post-20167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-iron-fist","tag-jae-lee","tag-kate-cushing","tag-kevin-tinsley","tag-spider-man","tag-terry-kavanagh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20167","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=20167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20168,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20167\/revisions\/20168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}