{"id":20356,"date":"2024-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=20356"},"modified":"2022-07-24T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T22:03:27","slug":"asm-387","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/03\/11\/asm-387\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 387"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You think magical pseudo-science de-aging would really give you your hair back? Good job by Bags making younger Vulture still look like The Vulture. On pages 1 & 2, it does what it sez on the tin, restoring Vulture to youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Me, I\u2019m all for young-ing up The Vulture via pseudo-science. I\u2019m sure OGs like Roger Stern could talk eloquently and at length about Vulture vs. Spider-Man, old vs. young, symbolism, etc, but to me, a 4000 year old man whipping around town at 100 miles per hour crashing into people as his primary method of attack and not just SHATTERING is harder to believe than getting super powers from a spider bite. And now Vulture\u2019s calling attention to that very problem in his dialogue here. \u201cLet Spider-Man know what it\u2019s like to be as fragile and weak as me! Wait, aren\u2019t I supposed to be a terrifying threat when I\u2019m old?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Genuinely love Spidey taking the time to say \u201cPlease don\u2019t feel bad about this!\u201d Some suspicious business there. Spider-Man is rightly freaking out, and decides he\u2019s got to get home. I used to own, and was shocked to learn I don\u2019t anymore, a What If? (drawn by Bags, even) where Spider-Man bonded with the alien costume. It drained him of his youth and left him more or less just like this. In traditional What If? Fashion, that story was just a bunch of people dying grizzly deaths, but I woulda swore that liver spots line was actually from that comic? How weird is that, to have 2 instances of prematurely elderly Peter Parker to mix up. Well, Vulture flies to his \u201cmost special\u201d secret hideout, where he designed a new costume and new power source that doesn\u2019t, you know, cause cancer. He says they were just a dying man\u2019s dream, but now they\u2019re reality. And as he gets them out, an shadowed figure watches him. Love a shadowy figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sad times at the Parker residence. Elsewhere, Vulture\u2019s gotten into his very 90s new costume, but at the height of his joy, he starts to feel weird and doubles over in pain. Meanwhile, Peter\u2019s gone to see Aunt May, but of course realizes he shouldn\u2019t. This also happened in that What If?. It was published 5 years before this, but the similarities are interesting. She hears someone at her window\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Where\u2019d he get those clothes, anyway? At Vulture\u2019s lair, he\u2019s raging about being old again when the shadowy figure reveals himself to be the guy from Dr. Sanchez\u2019 office, who says a lot of cryptic things, and thinks he can help. Instead of going home to comfort his traumatized wife, Spider-Man\u2019s gone back to Dr. Sanchez\u2019 office, only to find guys loading her goofy machine into a truck. He accuses them of robbery and is told it\u2019s an authorized transfer. And then Vulture shows up, brand-new gun blazing, and it\u2019s fightin\u2019 time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gee, who could that be? Spider-Man thinks he knows. But he\u2019s lost track of that truck, so first he goes to see if Ben Urich can trace its plate, and then\u2026 he STILL doesn\u2019t go comfort MJ, but instead does this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What a shock! What! A! Shock! Who would have guessed it!? How could anyone reading this have suspected? Yes, the thing that was obviously going to happen when it started more than 20 (!) issues ago is happening. But what is going to happen, exactly? What\u2019s really going on? Don\u2019t expect a satisfying answer. So! There are 4 monthly Spider-Man titles, plus a double-sized quarterly issue. This month, they started the 3-issue Spider-Man: The Mutant Agenda miniseries, and before it ends, they\u2019ll start Spider-Man & X-Factor, also 3 issues. That seems like enough, right? Apparently not!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hey now. I didn\u2019t know about that Ann Nocenti book. Or the Puma one, but that\u2019s less important. Did that really come out? I would track that down. It does not appear to have actually been published. They\u2019re shoveling all these product out and they couldn\u2019t give me that? I wonder if it just became her 2 issues of TAC? Name seems odd for that, tho. Ah, well. Next time, the conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You think magical pseudo-science de-aging would really give you your hair back? Good job by Bags making younger Vulture still look like The Vulture. On pages 1 & 2, it does what…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[9,35,253,259,339,21,1290,432,1289,2,98],"class_list":["post-20356","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-randy-emberlin","tag-richard-parker","tag-spider-man","tag-vulture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356","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=20356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20368,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356\/revisions\/20368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}