{"id":22574,"date":"2024-08-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=22574"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:42:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:42:27","slug":"ppsm-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/08\/30\/ppsm-23\/","title":{"rendered":"PPSM 23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Few covers in the period scream \u201cWe got Photohsop!\u201d like this one. Peep that drop shadow. At least this is the rare situation where having a bunch of different fonts on the cover isn\u2019t a design failure. Typeface made a splash upon introduction, but not the good kind, like you want. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can\u2019t say they aren\u2019t trying something different. Why the color hold on the \u201cR?\u201d Very distracting. Well, as Typeface prepares for capital R Retribution, Peter Parker stands on the shoreline somewhere, narrating in his mind to Mary Jane, talking about how he\u2019s filling his life with things to try avoid thinking about how she\u2019s not coming back. But in the end, he says he has to, and moves his wedding band, which I suddenly realize I don\u2019t think anyone\u2019s drawn on his OR MJ\u2019s fingers since the wedding issue (!!!!!) to his other hand, so everyone knows he\u2019s a widower, and through tears and a smile, says he should start acting like one. Time to move on from MJ! She\u2019s for sure not coming back, y\u2019all. What\u2019s Tyepface doing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Attacking people with literal letters! Utterly bonkers. He finishes beating them up and steals their pants, calling them \u201cthe spoils of war.\u201d No one was ready for mainstream superhero comics this weird in 2000. Speaking of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now what\u2019s all that about? Is Spider-Man about to crossover with John Carpenter\u2019s Prince of Darkness? Because I would so read that. The phone call waking our hero is a guy running an rt gallery where Peter\u2019s secured a show of his non-Spider-Man photos, one of the things he\u2019s done to try not to think about MJ. What non-Spider-Man photos? The ones of supervillains taken after he beat them? Pictures of Mary Jane? He\u2019s not exactly known for non-Spider-Man photos. Well, it\u2019s also 2 in the afternoon, to his shock. He wanders into the living room to find Randy seemingly in a trance, and then telling him that he dreamt the apartment was on fire. Hey, there were firetrucks in Peter\u2019s dream, too! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nice to see those guys, feels like it\u2019s been awhile, Now Peter, Randy, Glory & Jill are at \u201cthe club,\u201d which looks suspiciously like a bar. Randy says he was in bed 12 hours and feels like he slept 2, and that his fire dream included an animal running around. Peter is at the bar, where he meets a fellow widower\u2026 maybe\u2026 who seems to give him a bit of a pep talk between panels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is that a thing? I mean, I wouldn\u2019t know, but it seems a bit odd. I remember being a kid and people saying a man with an earring in a certain ear was gay, and thinking that also seemed silly. But, hey, people like symbols and totems and signs of identity, I dunno. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some cool friends ya got there, Pete-o. Typeface has exploding children\u2019s letter blocks he calls \u201cletter bombs\u201d as he rants about his retribution. Spider-Man shows up in several panels we\u2019ve sene before (Chapter One #5 cover AGAIN!) and tries to web him up, but he\u2019s got a razor sharp letter O to cut through the webs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That Spidey on the ground up top is the 2nd time he\u2019s used that particular reference in 3 pages. Unbelievable. Well, later, Peter Parker sits on the edge of his bed, worrying that his gallery show is at the same time Typeface will be getting his retribution. Why did he go in this pre-rampage if he planned to do his thing the next day at 7, anyway? Who knows? Peter doesn\u2019t know what to do about any of that, because he\u2019s just too tired\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Little gray men! Of all things! Yes, it\u2019s time for Maximum Security to come crashing into the Spider-Books. Spider-Man appeared on 4 pages of this comic. This is going to become pretty normal, actually, but in the process of the shift, it\u2019s surprising. Next time, more madness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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