{"id":22057,"date":"2024-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=22057"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:44:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:44:42","slug":"asm-v2-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/07\/18\/asm-v2-10\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM V2 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

See? It\u2019s basically Superman. Scott Hanna is back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cLook how tough and cool our new villain is, that he can so fully overpower Spider-Man\u2019s greatest foe. What are you doing? Taking bets on which one will still be a going concern in a year? Stop that!\u201d Superman has yanked one of Ock\u2019s robot arms out and taken him to some super science place and restrained him, all the while making it clear he knew Otto before he was Ock, but Ock doesn\u2019t know him. He then announces his new name is Captain Power. I guess the \u2122 must\u2019ve run out on that toy line from the 80s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kinda just want to see Ock whup this guy without Spider-Man. Byrne legit is just drawing Superman, tho. No stranger to the character, there\u2019s plenty to compare to. What a bizarre choice. Peter Parker is at the crime scene, furiously recapping what happened last issue, the new version of his origin, the fact that he\u2019s Spider-Man, etc, before thinking the cops and staff surely won\u2019t let him or anyone near Rickman now, so he might as well go check in on his alleged job at Tricorp and then see Aunt May. The area with the weird cut out of Ock\u2019s head on the previous page continues here, with a tiny Peter walking away, and on the next page, as Ock\u2019s severed tentacle kills a cop and flees the scene, and again on the next page, as Peter really does go to his job for the first time in seven or eight months of TWO comic books!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spoilers: He is totally going to blow this one. But also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guy-with-sucker makes his first appearance. And I am telling you now, we will genuinely never find out who he is. Oh, this plotline will get resolved, but in a way that is so obviously not as it was intended, it\u2019s crazy. Well, Jill shows up at the Parker residence terrified of whatever\u2019s goin\u2019 on with her dad and Senator Ward, and Peter\u2019s so distracted he\u2019s not paying much attention when he suddenly has an idea about the Ock situation. Then Paul shows up to exposit how he hates Spider-Man and Peter for the deaths of Gwen and George, which is maybe fair considering how little screen time he\u2019s gotten in the last year, and drags Jill away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MJ with the overalls! What a look. I can\u2019t imagine how difficult it was for one of comics\u2019 horniest artists to draw her this way. Meanwhile, Spider-Man returns to the scene of his new origin, still understandably  traumatized by being blown up as a 15-year old, to see if there\u2019s any clues. And perhaps inside (I sure don\u2019t remember), Superman\u2019s still doing whatever he\u2019s doing as Ock calls him \u201cChris,\u201d revealing he\u2019s figured out who he\u2019s dealing with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Right-o! Spider-Man shows up in time to see Superchris burst out of the roof so fast Spidey couldn\u2019t see what he was (Faster than, perhaps, a speeding bullet?), and goes inside to find Ock still strapped to the wall, saying he helped \u201cthe bad guy\u201d figure out who he was after, and maybe even saved some lives in the process. But then his loose tentacle gets our hero in a chokehold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boy oh boy. Somehow, the rampant coincidences of Chapter One extend to this. Dr. Twaki\u2019s secret past with Doc Ock revealed. Blllluh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So yer tellin me that the explosion that gave Doc Ock his powers, and gave the spider the ability to give Spider-Man his powers\u2026 also allowed this woman to turn into \u201cCaptain Power?\u201d This is too much. It\u2019s not Superman, it\u2019s Shazam, and she\u2019s Billy Batson. What an insssssssane idea. Spidey smashes in just in time to save Twaki by calling Superman by his full real name. I\u2019m back to Superman because he starts attacking with his heat vision, Shazam doesn\u2019t have that one. Spidey manages to attach some pseudo-science jumper cables to the villain as he bounces around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I literally believe a guy can stick to walls more than I believe this woman has a \u201cmutagen in her blood\u201d that turns her into Superman. Come on, dudes. Also, the attempt at scifi explanation really doesn\u2019t land too well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But.. if there\u2019s only 3 of them left.. Where did Superman go? Who did Ock tell him\/her to go after? Was it Rickman? Is Peter not suspicious? Boy, this sucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But Peter was totally getting photos of Spider-Man while he wasn\u2019t Spider-Man\u2026 Well, whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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