{"id":20820,"date":"2024-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=20820"},"modified":"2022-08-13T20:51:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T00:51:11","slug":"asm-435","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/04\/05\/asm-435\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 435"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let\u2019s see how Peter loses his Ricochet identity. We open on the hilariously named Bloodscream and Roughhouse, 2 jobbers from Wolverine comics, who\u2019ve been released from prison. One of them has noticed someone following them. Who could it be? Could it be Ricochet?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Naturally, it\u2019s Dusk. I guess there\u2019s no reason to keep the identities tied to a particular book, but they\u2019re the ones who did it, and it\u2019s only 2 months. Weird. Anyway, Peter goes home, and we learn that those guys are now working for Black Tarantula, and that\u2019s why he was following them. MJ is worried. She says he had years to develop his fighting abilities as Spider-Man, but is a newbie with these new identities. We\u2019ve already seen how right she is in the previous post, but Peter isn\u2019t concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the space of 2 months, they managed to do \u201cOsborn wants to hire the new hero\u201d and \u201cPeter gets the costume parts mixed up\u201d twice! Come on, guys. We cut to Rose and Delilah discussing Ricochet. They don\u2019t trust him, but think he\u2019s a means to an end, and that end is making trouble for Black Tarantula that can\u2019t be traced to The Rose. Speaking of Ranchy\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is that his real origin? Who knows? I don\u2019t. Kinda seems like a wasted page if it isn\u2019t, but people do weird things in comics. Like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Can you believe they would do this? After the effort required to dig themselves out of the Clone Saga hole? But don’t worry, Kaine doesn’t appear again. Which only makes is more insane. Back in NY, BT tells his lil\u2019 buddy that Fortunato and Rose don\u2019t suspect his real purpose in America, and also that Fortunato has learned much of his background, \u201cbut lacks a crucial fact.\u201d We learn BT apparently sent Bloodscream and Roughhouse to do something in Wolverine #123, but they failed. And then, with the 2nd of only 2 issues in which Peter is Ricochet half over, we finally see him in that suit, staking out the docks with Delilah. She wants to know how Blood\u2019n\u2019Rough survived failing Black Tarantula, so when they leave the boat they\u2019re living on, Ricochet & Delilah follow them to a meeting with\u2026 Chesbro, the little guy who Peter recognizes from seeing him skulking around ESU spying on MJ\u2019s teacher. And then it\u2019s fightin\u2019 time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These villains were co-created by the great John Buscema, who did a long stretch at the start of Wolverine\u2019s monthly book, and you can kind of feel Bennett hewing to a Buscema feel for Roughhouse. His obsession with food seems funny, I don\u2019t really know these guys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bennett has really broken Delilah\u2019s costume down. Remember when it was all billowy sleeves and shoulderpads and that ponytail that looked like it might have blades in it? Ain\u2019t nobody got time for that anymore, presumably.\u00a0These guys and Styx and Stone should hang out. Roughhouse does a \u201cknock you into next week\u201d line, and Ricochet tells him to aim for Thursday, which I like. Our hero starts leaping around and throwing his little bouncing discs at Roughy, who gets so annoyed he just leaves. That\u2019s pretty unusual. He unfortunately demolishes a good chunk of the restaurant on his way. Ricochet follows them to the boat they’re living on, and has one of the worst ideas I’ve ever seen. Soon, in an ABSOLUTELY ridiculous sequence, Roughy and Bloody are back on their boat when they\u2019re attacked by Dusk. And then he slips into the shadows and they\u2019re attacked by Ricochet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean, this is absurd. How could he possibly be changing clothes so fast? As Hornet, he KO\u2019s Bloody and then tranquilizes Roughhouse. All tied up, Bloodscream says maybe they can make a deal, and that lives hang in the balance. He proposes to trade information for his freedom. Meanwhile, half a world away\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that sure offered no reason at all for Peter to stop being Ricochet. And barely bothered to use the Ricochet identity in the first place. What a weird deal. Things are obviously building up in the background while all this goofing off is happening in the foreground. What\u2019s coming is\u2026 not great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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