{"id":20691,"date":"2024-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=20691"},"modified":"2022-08-12T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T15:34:13","slug":"x-man-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/03\/27\/x-man-37\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Man 37"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Why did I do this? Why did I invest in a a -part guest appearance by Spider-Man in his total best bro\u2019s comic? X-Man had already shuffled through a few creatives by issue 37. Starting out with Jeph Loeb and later John Ostrander writing for Steve Skroce. By the time Skroce left for Spider-Man, this book was written by Terry Kavanagh, and when Skroce left, he was replaced by Roger Cruz. Crus and Luke Ross were essentially the same person in the late 90s. I mean, look at this Cruz cover:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A subpar Joe Mad impression with a Spider-Man doing a halfhearted McFarlane impression? You have to check the signature to be sure it\u2019s not Ross. That issue tied in somehow to the Morbius story in SM 78, but I had no interest in picking it up. This issue begins what appears to have been a brief guest stint by the artist Crisscross. Hey, the name was his idea, don\u2019t smirk at me. He is inked by Bud LaRosa and colored by Mike Thomas and Mark Bernardo. Crisscross brought a quasi-graffiti influence to his stuff, a lot of really exaggerated angles and shapes. His stuff feels very of its time but also not as derivative as a lot of his contemporaries. We open on Spider-Man begging someone unseen not to do something on top of a bridge at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s a bridge in New York and Spider-Man\u2019s there, so you know\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey and Nate recap a bunch of his recent adventures at each other, Nate finishin\u2019 a lot of words without the g\u2019s even tho I don\u2019t think other writers were writin\u2019 him that way as he continues to threaten to do\u2026 something. Spider-Man grabs him by the shoulder and tells him not to and is zapped with energy for it as psionic energy explodes out of Nate into lightning looking arcs headed for the city. I guess he\u2019s trying to make the entire city forget about him, and we meet his ludicrously named love interest, \u201cJam,\u201d short for Jasmine (How? Show your work), who we\u2019re told is the only person he\u2019s giving a chance to choose to forget, and she does not. Apparently he has succeeding in mindwiping every one else, tho, including someone named Bux. I\u2019m glad I\u2019d given up on the X-Men by this point. The Age of Apocalypse event that created Nate gave me a perfect jumping off point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But as he keeps violating the minds of every New Yorker, he reaches the mind of the aforementioned Threnody in \u201cthe underground tunnels\u201d (The Morlock tunnels? Who knows?). He\u2019s trying to figure out why he\u2019s not sensed her in town before when\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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POOM indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, I\u2019m sure the thing shining gigantic spotlights all over the city is \u201chidden.\u201d Ugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Nate\u2019s psionic storm or whatever expands, a figure emerges coming toward Spider-Man. And that figure\u2026 is Gwen Stacy with a goofy futuristic rifle. Really. We\u2019re told this is the Gwen of Nate\u2019s alternate reality (Professor X\u2019s son went back in time to kill Magneto and accidentally killed his dad instead, transforming the present into a post-apocalyptic nightmare until the X-Men fixed it, but the event was so popular that elements of it came to the prime reality, like X-Man, and writers keep going back to it, even today), which means she grew up a lot harder than the real Gwen. Spider-Man flashes back to a long montage of him and Gwen dating when he was still wearing vests and glasses, because long time Spider-Man writer and Clone Saga villain Terry Kavanagh apparently doesn\u2019t know basic Spider-Man history, and then her death and then how he came ot love MJ and whatever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uuuuggggghhhhhhhhhhh Spider-Man saves this Gwen from dying this is so stupid. It somehow takes 2 more pages for him to reach her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I just remembered. I got these issues when I worked at the comic shop. I was trying a lot of random things at that time just because. This had Spider-Man in it, so why not? Boy, the answers to that question are numerous! But we\u2019re here, so we\u2019ll have to finish this dumb story up next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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