{"id":2253,"date":"2019-11-21T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T04:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2019-05-30T01:07:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T05:07:11","slug":"asm-391","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/11\/21\/asm-391\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 391"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As we begin, MJ is standing around being sad in the middle of the night, and also, Aunt May is standing around being sad in the middle of the night. Fun city, here we come! With that established, we go follow Spider-Man to Ravencroft, where he startles John Jameson (also sad).
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John\u2019s mad because Ravencroft was forced to open before it was ready, and he thinks this is the result. Incorrect! This is the result of Dr. Kafka doing something monumentally stupid. But, too late to point fingers now. As he lists all the reasons the facility isn\u2019t ready yet, Spidey pulls a Batman on him and vanishes.
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So deeply hurt by recent events that he\u2019s willing to abandon his life as Peter Parker and just be the mask, we\u2019re told. I just\u2026 call bullshit. This is Spider-Man, man. Shouldering the pain of tragedy is his whole deal. After all he\u2019s been through, and all he\u2019s lost\u2026 And I guess this is unfair to you, dear reader, not knowing what he\u2019s reacting to yet (If you don\u2019t)… but I just don\u2019t buy this. He made it through losing Gwen without trying to abdicate his role in his own life, and he\u2019s got a better support network AND the benefit of maturity now, and yet his feelings are just tooooo hurt, so it\u2019s time to abandon his friggin wife and punch bad guys until he dies of starvation and sleep deprivation, I guess. Ugh. This is character assassination. This is an egregious betrayal of everything the character stands for. And not the last, either. We see Beatrice McBride driving around, desperately looking for her son. He\u2019s still with Shriek, who is trying to abuse him into becoming Carrion again.
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Yay. Out in Queens, MJ has gone to see May, who\u2019s trying to put on her usual brave face, and MJ calls her on it, saying she\u2019s trying to pretend nothing bad has happened and bottling it up, refusing to feel anything.
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Fully deserved, MJ. Aunt May is a real one, unlike her nephew at present. Elsewhere, having gone into a house and killed its occupant, Shriek continues to beat up Malcolm while pretending to be his mom, saying again that he\u2019s all she has left and she loves him. It\u2019s all really silly. He says if she loves him, she\u2019ll let him go. She\u2019s about to fly into another rage when she gets webbed and slammed into a wall.
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Fun times. Shriek begins crying and yelling things like \u201cmommy don\u2019t hit me anymore I\u2019ll be good\u201d to lower Spidey\u2019s guard and the belts him across the room. She says she\u2019s learned a lot about her sonic powers while she\u2019s been locked up, even learning to create a \u201csonic buffer\u201d that let her deflect Spider-Man\u2019s punches. She\u2019s on the verge of Basilisk \u201ccan do anything eyebeams\u201d-level powers, here. What\u2019s up out in Queens?
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Uh-oh. Aunt May, whose ill health hasn\u2019t been used as a tired plot device in awhile as of this issue, I\u2019m happy to say, seems to be back on her bullshit. Bit of a hint at what caused all this there, but vague enough that I\u2019m still not spilling the beans. How long can I hold out? I don\u2019t honestly know. I feel like, if they do force my hand, I\u2019ll just go back and rewrite a bunch of this and no one will ever know. So if you\u2019re seeing this, I win! Elsewhere, Shriek is deciding maybe she can push Spider-Man so far into the darkness that he can be her new man when she realizes that\u2019s what she needs to do to Malcolm to make him Carrion again. She\u2019s got ill-defined psychic powers, too, so she hits him up and\u2026
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Ugh. Also: yikes! Also, we already saw it, but:
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Saviuk did a pretty good copy of this. Could I have shown it here first? When you see the rest of this story\u2026 I just don\u2019t know how. Come back next time to see some of what I mean.
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