<\/p>\n\n\n\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190213_003244-688x1024.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nSo, you know, havin\u2019 a good time. Meanwhile, out at the oft-mentioned but as yet unseen (on this blog) Ravencroft Institute, Dr. Ashley Kafka is observing a patient. Why does this character have one glowing eye? Because it\u2019s 1994, dear reader, we\u2019re lucky she\u2019s not made entirely of shoulderpads. Ashley & Edward go check on Malcom McBride, who through Circumstances got infected with The Carrion Virus and became a new Carrion. Have we seen Carrion yet? Ok, yes, we have. Well, this is not that Carrion. Malcolm is \u201ccured\u201d now, but that doesn\u2019t make the guilt for the horrible things he did as a murderous supervillain go away. He\u2019s wild sad, so he\u2019s in the right book! When he tries to sleep, he has nightmares\u2026 Then Carrion comes for him in his dream, and he hopes Carrion will kill him, because he deserves to die. Are we having fun here? Y\u2019all into this? We switch from Malcolm describing his dream to Aunt May waking from one. She\u2019s been having nightmares about the burglar that killed Ben, only now he kills Peter. She\u2019s worried about him. Then we check in with MJ, and I remember a subplot from this era I forgot: MJ secretly took up smoking! And it\u2019s gross, and Peter was like \u201cew!\u201d and she\u2019s still tempted. Totally forgot this. She compares the way Peter is treating her to living with her father, and we\u2019ve seen how terrible he was. She\u2019s totally justified. She refuses to let him make her smoke and tosses her cigarette, then hears a creak that lets her know he\u2019s home. The prominent placement of the cigarette box is pretty funny there, but as they keep makin\u2019 out, she drops the box. SYMBOLISM. That smoking story was so lame. I\u2019m not gonna get into it here, I just completely blanked it out of my mind and it\u2019s all flooding back. I\u2019ll have a lot to say about MJ having crap subplots at a more appropriate time. Right now, we\u2019re going back to Ravencroft, where Dr. Kafka is telling Malcolm he can\u2019t blame himself for what Carrion did through him. That it\u2019s not him (And it isn\u2019t, to be fair, it\u2019s a virus that turns you into Carrion. Anyone could be Carrion). He doesn\u2019t agree, and thinks he must be insane, so she decides to show him someone who totally is insane, and that is a TERRIBLE idea, Ashley, what are you doing? She takes him to observe Shriek raging in her cell. These two have a history, ya see. Dr. Kafka sucks at her job. She refers to one of the worst crossovers ever, \u201cMaximum Carnage,\u201d a mindboggling 14-part exercise in excess from awhile back. At the time, a low point for the 90s era, but they were just getting started. Shriek chases down Malcolm being all crazy and motherly and then picks him up, smashes through a wall and flies them away as his real mom watches in horror through a window. I cannot stress this enough, Ashley Kafka should lose whatever license she has and be sacked. Meanwhile, MJ wakes up to find Peter gone, and is sad again. She finds her dropped cigarettes on the floor and throws them out the window, though, so at least there\u2019s that. Spider-Mope thinks Dr. Kafka can help him, but we see she\u2019s in the hospital, pretty messed up, so probably not, and it\u2019s To Be Continued. Hey, we finally got to ASM. Now you\u2019ve gotten a taste of the pikers having a run at making Spider-Man an insufferable sadsack, let\u2019s see the master do it. JM DeMatteis is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[9,427,35,253,196,125,339,21,432,433,2],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-amazing-spider-man","tag-ashley-kafka","tag-aunt-may","tag-bob-sharen","tag-carrion","tag-jm-dematteis","tag-mark-bagley","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-randy-emberlin","tag-shriek","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4583,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/4583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190213_003419-694x1024.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190213_003856-644x1024.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190213_004244-978x1024.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190213_004452-680x1024.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190213_004534-687x1024.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190213_004956-681x1024.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190213_005544-661x1024.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"