{"id":2254,"date":"2019-11-22T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T04:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2019-05-30T01:07:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T05:07:36","slug":"asm-392","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/11\/22\/asm-392\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 392"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Heavy sigh right outta the gate with this one. This stuff is a real slog to me, but I am weirdly excited to get to the crossover. I remember it being this buzz in comics at the time, being this shocking thing. I\u2019m eager to see how I feel about it now. Shriek stops Carrion from killing Spider-Man, smashing him into a door.
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Her literal plan is to make him so sad he becomes one of them. That is the comic I\u2019m reading. They leave, and Spidey briefly wakes up in a lot of pain, and then passes back out, so we move our scene to the hospital. Mary Jane is at Aunt May\u2019s bedside, asking a Dr. Caputo if she\u2019s going to die. She\u2019s had a stroke, and she\u2019s in a coma. She\u2019s had some brain swelling, but they just don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen at this point. Then there\u2019s this:
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There are elements in comics fandom that might call this a proto-Bendis page. I remember it stopping me in my tracks as a teen. \u201cWhy did they do that?\u201d I don\u2019t think it really works. I don\u2019t know. Anyway, Shriek & Carrion have hilariously found clothing that more or less replicates their super suits in a store they\u2019re robbing, so they look the part of villains now. \u201cShopping\u201d reminds her of her childhood, which she\u2019s tried to block out, and remembering some of it, including the vague implication of child abuse, causes her to lash out with her power, wrecking the place and scaring Carrion. It\u2019s said that her craziness stems from child abuse, because that was really in fashion in the 90s and is mad gross.
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“…let me go.” All bad guys (And The Hulk) were beaten or worse as kids and that\u2019s why they are the way they are, case closed. What kinda message does that send to a kid trying to escape abuse reading this tripe? Ugh. Of course, if you\u2019re looking for escapism, I\u2019m not sure why you\u2019d pick Spider-Man in this era. Or comics at all. At least some of Spidey\u2019s super-peers, while maybe not starring in their best comics, were at least starring in entertaining ones. Some of us had picked our guy and were too dumb to stop buying his comics when they went bad, though. Anyway, Spider-Man comes home and falls asleep, wishing Carrion had killed him. \/sigh
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He swings to the hospital, finds May\u2019s room and looks in. MJ sees him, and then he\u2019s gone. She she follows him all the way back to their place, where she tries to talk to him, but he just says it\u2019s not fair.
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I almost miss The Kangaroo, at this point. Also, how does Peter keep turning smashed furniture into fist-sized sticks? I don\u2019t think you can throw a dresser into a wall and get little fist-width sticks. I\u2019m not a woodworker, I could be wrong. Shriek takes Carrion to his Mom\u2019s house so she can command him to kill her, proving his loyalty, while at the Parker Residence, MJ comes into the bedroom, ludicrously saying she \u201cstraightened up the living room, no harm done,\u201d just totally in denial, to find this nonsense:
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I so distinctly recall getting to this page as a lad. \u201cWhat? What is this?\u201d The depths of my disappointment that this comic sucks now. Not just sucks, but is so very stupid. As Peter retreats into \u201cThe Spider,\u201d why is he in a cocoon? Does he have spiders and caterpillars mixed up? And lest we forget, his webbing dissolves in an hour. This emo idiot is having to re-cocoon himself once an hour. And I know he is, because MJ comes back much later, in the night, and finds the cocoon open and Peter gone. They should’ve shown that. Shown his stupid pouting nonsense as he has to reweb himself. Spider-Man thinks \u201cSomeone died in that cocoon. Some one soft and vulnerable. Someone brutalized and frightened.\u201d He also thinks \u201cRest in peace, Peter Parker. Long may you rot.\u201d
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Yes, the asinine mantra from Kraven\u2019s Last Hunt is back. Spider-Man then swings DIRECTLY to Malcolm\u2019s Mom\u2019s house, like he somehow knows that\u2019s where to find Shriek and Carrion, and find them he does, still arguing over whether he should kill his mom. Shriek \u201csenses this isn\u2019t the same man as before\u201d and a bunch of other dreck, and it\u2019s gonna be a fight next month.
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The way I see it, because Peter\u2019s not nearly THIS far gone in the other titles, because they\u2019re not written by The Lord Of Emos, and because it\u2019s impossible for all of them to be happening at once, they have to come first. Peter can\u2019t be in \u201cI am The Spider\u201d mode here and cracking jokes in Web at the same time. Thing is, both Kavanaugh & Mackie started putting \u201cI am The Spider\u201d crap in their issues, too, once this was established. So their stories maybe begin before and finish after the ASM one. This is the best I can do. Thus, you can now see why I\u2019ve chosen the reading order I have cobbled together. This is the moment when a reasonable person would cancel his pull list at the comic shop, but I kept on buying this garbage.
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Heavy sigh right outta the gate with this one. This stuff is a real slog to me, but I am weirdly excited to get to the crossover. I remember it being this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[9,35,253,196,125,339,21,432,433,2],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-amazing-spider-man","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\/2254","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=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4585,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/4585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}