{"id":2082,"date":"2019-10-20T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2019-09-02T00:54:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T04:54:21","slug":"asm-295","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/10\/20\/asm-295\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 295"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The great Kyle Baker tags in on inks here. His sumptuous inking dulls the clean precision of Martin\u2019s line as seen last issue, but adds a pleasing fluidity, also. Another really good example of just how much control the inker has over the finished product. Anyway, as we jump in, Peter Parker is being rushed into The Mad Dog Ward on a gurney by two jaded guys and a new hire who dares to be concerned about their patient.
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That guy casually tossing Peter\u2019s Spidey shirt over that guy\u2019s head for laughs in a book so very obsessed with maintaining his secret identity is oddly powerful to me. It pretty efficiently says \u201cPeter\u2019s really in trouble here.\u201d They wheel Peter into a room in the ward where they keep people who think they\u2019re superheroes.
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Peter instinctively tries to break free, but they wrestle him down and drug him up some more. The new girl, Mary, worries they\u2019re being too rough, and Peter tries to tell her he\u2019s Spider-Man, but of course, they all say they\u2019re superheroes in here. He\u2019s \u201cadmitted\u201d as a John Doe, given the number Mad Dog 336. We jump ahead several days (Several days! I hope MJ\u2019s still in Paris, Peter disappearing again so soon would be too much) to Peter all doped up and now just another patient in The Mad Dog Ward. He tries to remember why he\u2019s here as a doctor presses a patient to prove he\u2019s Jesus, as he believes he is.
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Witness Chekov\u2019s Giant Dude. Peter blearily suggests they should do something to get out of here, but he\u2019s not capable of much conscious thought. Later, Mary the nurse wheels Peter down a hallway, doing him a favor even though she could get in trouble, telling him he\u2019s on a ton of drugs because he\u2019s supposedly dangerous.
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They\u2019ve come to see Vicky. Peter sometimes remembers she\u2019s why he\u2019s here. He says he\u2019s met her children, and she perks up. Peter gets upset that she\u2019s in here instead of with her children, says he should do something, and then falls asleep. Meanwhile\u2026
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Grim stuff. Dad is smiling uncomfortably wide when he gets home, asking how their day was and trying to buy their kindness with pizza, but the kids aren\u2019t having it. Frank blows up at them, saying either their mom stays in The Mad Dog Ward or The Kingpin\u2019s mob comes for the whole family. Back at the \u201chospital,\u201d things are getting worse\u2026
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Patient MD2020, aka Brainstorm, is being molded into a new assassin for The Kingpin, you see. The scientist programming him thinks that he really wants to be working on MD336, but he\u2019s not allowed yet. He\u2019s the only one who knows that\u2019s the real Spider-Man. Speaking of whom, Peter is in the rec room as a bunch of extremely creepy new suits for the patients show up\u2026
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This makes Peter so angry he stands up out of his wheelchair and ties the guy demonstrating up in his own creepy gimp suit. One of the orderlies tries to dose him, but he bodyslams that guy for his trouble.
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The revolt is shortlived, though, as more goons rush in and begin tranquilizing everyone, including Peter. Just like that, everyone\u2019s docile again. Peter feels bad for getting everyone worked up and subsequently beat up, and worries they\u2019ll all be punished because of him as Mary helps him to his wheelchair.
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That doesn\u2019t sound good. Come back next time to see how Spidey gets outta this one.
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