{"id":20458,"date":"2024-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=20458"},"modified":"2024-03-13T23:37:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T03:37:03","slug":"sm-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/03\/13\/sm-45\/","title":{"rendered":"SM 45"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One o the absolute craziest things about the comic book industry, in my opinion (And that\u2019s a big setup) is how they absolutely cannot wait to ruin the endings of their own stories. Comics is a business about 3 months from now. Publishers are always hyping what comes next. Fans and media alike take it to heart and care more about what comes next. Hypothetical books that haven\u2019t come out yet are always more important than the thing you just spent too much money on. Thee days, Marvel will be in the middle of selling a 48-part event series while selling you the next 48-part event series. It\u2019s an insane, insane racket. To wit, this cover was in advertising months before this issue. The revelation that Spider-Man\u2019s parents were gonna die was known in advance. 22 issues of build up just to step on the ending. All the better to sell \u201cand you won\u2019t believe what happens next!\u201d By the time a mysterious, shadowy figure who kinda looked like Peter Parker started haunting the margins of Spider-Man comics, we all knew The Scarlet Spider was coming. Reading comics is like if every movie trailer said \u201cAnd here\u2019s how it ends!\u201d Anyway. Spider-Man spends the opening 3 pages of this issue recapping the end of the last one, in case you didn\u2019t buy it. This whole silly crossover is his quest for revenge, I guess they wanted to make sure you understood the emotional stakes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the next page, we see Spider-Man loading a machine gun, saying he\u2019ll do it the way he should have a long time ago, shooting at a mirror. But, of course, that\u2019s Chameleon, shooting \u201cSpider-Man\u201d in the mirror by turning into him. Chammy says this is all for Kraven. That Spider-Man can\u2019t get away with what happened in Kraven\u2019s Last Hunt. Dimitri sure didn\u2019t seem too worried about that when he was impersonating JJJ<\/a>, or running around in that hilarious captain\u2019s hat<\/a>, or any other time he\u2019s popped up since 1987. This is a very DeMatteis-level sudden, nonsensical change of heart. I wonder if it was his idea. Michelinie said the parents story didn\u2019t have an ending until it ended, and he bounced as soon as he told it, maybe that idea came from the incoming writer of ASM. Who knows? Peter Parker is throwing the first of many tantrums in the post-parents era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt would KILL her to find out the thing she figured out before I did is true! Kill her, I say!\u201d MJ really nailing him at the bottom. Having already covered the miserable mess this is setting up, it\u2019s not exactly fun to slog back into it. Peter goes to his parents\u2019 graves in the rain and throws a tantrum at them for being dead. We see Chameleon in disguise hiring assassins, and then we get 2 pages of Spider-Man brutally attacking people for info about Chameleon, setting up his new status quo as a raging douchebag. When that doesn\u2019t accomplish anything, he goes and rousts newly-introduced Connor Trevayne, introduced as \u201cOfficer\u201d last issue, called \u201cSpecial Agent\u201d here, and soon to be \u201cDetective.\u201d Guy keeps busy! Trevayne says he\u2019s heard about Spider-Man\u2019s rampage, and intuits that it didn\u2019t work, and says \u201cthe heavy handed method rarely works.\u201d Tell that to Daredevil! Spidey tells him he\u2019s looking for Chameleon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So Spider-Man goes to the spot where Chammy has heavily armed goons waiting. They\u2019re surprised to learn their target is Spider-Man, but when yer a goon, yer a goon all the way. Spidey still retains enough of his common sense to lure them into a nearby park and away from peoples\u2019 homes before the shooting starts. Then, among the trees, he starts doing the action movie thing where he picks the guys off one by one silently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How on Earth did he think this would go any other way? How many billions of goons has Spider-Man outsmarted over the years? He could\u2019ve at least used an address that wasn\u2019t his actual house! What a dope. He spends a page talking to a picture of Kraven, wondering what he\u2019s going to do. It\u2019s very silly. But that doesn\u2019t matter, this does:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In another time, that woulda been an ending. Peter rescued by Aunt May\u2019s love. But it\u2019s 1994, and it\u2019s all about grim dark angst and violence, so we got 3 more whole issues of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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