{"id":2247,"date":"2019-11-11T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2019-05-28T15:16:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T19:16:39","slug":"tac-214","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/11\/11\/tac-214\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 214"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My comic buying could be really spotty in this time. I didn\u2019t exactly have a ton of disposable income at 15, and comic shops could be unreliable, even if you had a pull list. And sometimes I\u2019d get something if it looked interesting, or skip it if it didn\u2019t. I can\u2019t say what lead to me having part 1 of this story, but not part 2, but I only got this one a few months ago as of this writing. All-new to me this post. Probably just got all the ones with the animated series stuff packed, now that I think about it. They claimed to come with an animation cell, but what they meant was a replica of an animation cell. Not the same thing! Anyway. Bloody Mary has her next target in the sights of her rifle, a businessman she says is an abuser and killer of women, but she decides a sniper shot is too good for him, and wants him to suffer. Then she notices the tracer on her boot.
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So, Typhoid knows about Mary, and she seems to know about Bloody Mary. Mary doesn\u2019t know about either of her more dangerous personas. What\u2019s Bloody know about herself? Not sure. She sure did just step out of her telekinetically assembled trash suit like it\u2019s an Iron Man armor, though. Then there\u2019s this:
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That editorial note is nuts. \u201cOh, what, did you want to have a logical progression of the action from one issue to the next that you can easily follow? You some kinda NERD?\u201d Why wouldn\u2019t Spider-Man follow her into the library? This is confusing. Notice how we don\u2019t see his face. He finds the remnants of Bloody Mary\u2019s suit, and realizes he now has no idea how to find her. So he goes home, seeming resentful of having a home to go to.
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It\u2019s beginning to feel like this was a 3-issue story and the middle didn\u2019t get published. Peter doesn\u2019t want MJ to see the piece of Bloody Mary\u2019s suit he kept, and she accuses him of being obsessed, but he says he just wonders what she\u2019s hiding from in her other personalities. MJ asks him what he\u2019s hiding from.
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I don\u2019t even know what to say about the ideas about psychology and feminism expressed on this page, so I\u2019m just moving on.  Peter calls Joe Robertson to ask if he\u2019s done the checking up on Bloody Mary\u2019s next target he asked him to, again making it feel like we missed an issue, as  Typhoid arranges for poor Mary Walker to have an encounter with said target to get into his home.
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Mary sees a news story about \u201cthe new serial killer\u201d on TV, complete with a composite sketch of Bloody Mary made from eye-witness accounts (missing chapter!), which triggers her transformation. To Typhoid, rather than Bloody, which doesn\u2019t seem quite right, but whatever, Typhoid\u2019s the one who likes to torment and then punish men with sexuality, so this is her scene. Her creepy target is totally into her, talking about how women love pain and such as she telekinetically brings a whole cloud of knives flying at him, and then using them to make her next Bloody Mary suit. But, as she recites the list of crimes he\u2019s committed, including two murders, guess who shows up for some armchair psychiatry?
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This is the 90s, so there\u2019s a totally self-indulgent 2-page splash of the two jump kicking toward each other, and it\u2019s fightin\u2019 time. BM says the world made her who she is, that abusive men like him made her, and then she hits him where he lives.
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She went and said the \u201cG\u201d word. Spidey\u2019s not quite morose enough to just let her kill him, though, and catches her wrist. They keep yelling at each other about abuse and justice, and Spider-Man keeps trying to convince her he doesn\u2019t want to fight.
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Fight officially over. The guy tries to kill himself, but Spidey stops him. Then the girl starts talking.
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Well, alright. Mary turns herself in to the authorities to be taken to Ravencroft, the recently created Spider-Man version of Arkham Asylum that seems even worse at helping its patients, and that\u2019s that for this story. I wonder if this was Nocenti\u2019s idea of closing the book on Typhoid. She had been treated very poorly by Daredevil stories after Nocenti\u2019s long tenure ended. But, of course, this would not be her last appearance. I think it\u2019s her last appearance in a Spidey comic, though. Still really think a middle issue didn\u2019t get made, and that\u2019s awfully strange. At any rate, next post will be our first look at an issue of Adjectiveless Spider-Man. Maybe that\u2019ll be cool.
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