{"id":21934,"date":"2024-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=21934"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:44:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:44:10","slug":"asm-v2-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/07\/08\/asm-v2-7\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM V2 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You can, perhaps, intuit that we\u2019re in for some dopey business here. Just the kind of story I like the least, personally. Fans clearly love an alternate universe, a what if, things like that, but for me, if I\u2019m gonna pay my $2 (In 1999) for an issue of Amazing Spider-Man, that\u2019s what I want to read. Not\u2026 well, this\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you want to present some goofy world where Flash is Spider-Man\u2019s beloved, vaguely Adam Strange-looking sidekick, do a miniseries or something, so I can skip it. Also, Flash didn\u2019t know Gwen in high school, altho, who knows in this whatever it is. Some energy flares and Flash tells Spidey they have to go, rushing into battle without his hero. This is all clearly some kinda fantasy Flash is living in, and someone\u2019s commenting on it in captions. Doom has the FF all wrapped up and plans to open a portal to the Negative Zone (Hey, that part sounds familiar), but Spider-Man swoops in and starts fighting him, and then Flash appears to free the FF (Except for Sue, for some reason? That\u2019s very Lee\/Kirby of you, Flash).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That Spider-Man on the last page is bugging me. I don\u2019t think Byrne swiped it or anything\u2026 whatever his faults, that\u2019s not his style\u2026 but I do think it got reused somewhere. Probably in 2000s-era mass market packaging. From the 90s onward, it became standard practice to have a commercial artist copy a bunch of comic art for action figure packages, birthday decorations, shoes, etc, giving it all a uniform look. For example, this Mark Bagley Spider-Man\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026becomes this piece of promo art for a cartoon (I think drawn by Ty Templeton)\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026and this\u2026 whatever it is\u2026 (I think drawn by Scott Johnson)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Johnson, in particular, was the look of Marvel outside comics for the early-to-mid 2000s, but most of what he did was based on existing art. I think this is one of those. Maybe it\u2019ll come back up. I just want to have it on the blog to refer back to. I\u2019m so disinterested in this comic that this is the part I\u2019m most invested in so far. Well, Flash and Spidey save the day while the FF watch, Reed saying they have things under control as usual. Then they get a parade, wherein Flash is seen wearing Thor\u2019s helmet, Mayor Osborn gives them the key to the city.  Blah blah blah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I didn\u2019t put Flash Thomspon: Super Jock on my pull list at the comic shop. I didn\u2019t want this. My absolute least favorite trope. And it gets another issue next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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