{"id":20914,"date":"2024-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=20914"},"modified":"2022-08-14T00:55:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T04:55:57","slug":"ssm-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/04\/15\/ssm-29\/","title":{"rendered":"SSM 29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Something like 16 years later?… and still doing \u201ccross your path\u201d references. The House of Ideas. Now we begin an unfortunate thing that happens more than once with Spider-Man, where Mike Weiringo leaves a Spider-Man title, but keeps doing the covers, so the interiors can be disappointing. This issue has 2 line art teams, half of it by Roberto Flores & Juan Viasco, the other half by Tom Lyle and Robert Jones. Matt Hicks colors throughout. The first art team makes the inept Todd Nauck fill-in art look positively wonderful as Spider-Man stops a mugging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hideous, top to bottom. Look at those insane legs. He looks like he\u2019s made of Silly Putty. How long could Spider-Man have been gone? A week? Two? This is Marvel time, and it was only 2 months. The whole thing would\u2019ve played better if it lasted longer. I wonder if there was a time when it was going to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is this guy\u2019s entire wardrobe belts? Why is this happening? Spider-Man wastes another page fighting this random dork before finally webbing him up. He finishes to applause from a crowd, then swings home thinking about how good it is to be back in his regular suit. The next day, Peter & Mj are headed to meet Ben\u2019s old paramore Desiree at The Daily Grind. Peter is nervous after that weird stuff she was talking last time he saw her, but MJ brushes it off. After Buzz at the counter delivers some exposition about drug dealers going missing from The Bugle, they sit down with Desiree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s like someone doing a terrible impression of Ringo\u2019s earliest, worst comics, while mixing in elements of Humberto Ramos, one of my all-time least favorite comic book artists. This is so bad. Can\u2019t wait for Tom Lyle. Well, that Desiree thing didn\u2019t go anywhere. I wonder if that, too, had a longer tail at one point. Well, anyway, that night, Black Cat\u2019s chasing a guy down an alley when some other guys show up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean, Lyle wasn\u2019t the best, and seemingly did this in a hurry to get the book out on time, but I\u2019m so glad he\u2019s here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Felcia takes that guy down, and then asks Spider-Man if he\u2019s going to hang out up on the roof all night. He\u2019s been watching, and says she didn\u2019t look like she needed help. She explains that she\u2019s looking for this kid in her new job as a detective on behalf of his parents, but the trail\u2019s gone cold. Spidey offers to pitch in. So, the next day, Peter gets some info out of Ben Urich and Felicia does some digging on \u201cMikey,\u201d and they have a lead to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No idea where this is going. But, later, Spidey & Cat are spying on that Mikey kid, and they swoop in. Him and his friends scatter, 2 of them pulling guns on Spider-Man as Black Cat takes a surprisingly long time to catch up to Mikey. He starts yelling that her runaway, Dougie, was taken by \u201cthe truck,\u201d and then our hero\u2019s danger sense goes off as he sees something familiar\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I cannot believe this garbage truck gag is still working for Arcade. Cannot believe it. In the letters, someone is told Mike Weiringo isn\u2019t going anywhere, he just took a break, but they\u2019re saying that in an issue with a fill-in artist, and as it happens, Mike only draws one of this series\u2019 remaining 4 issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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