{"id":23342,"date":"2024-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=23342"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:41:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:41:54","slug":"ppsm-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/10\/30\/ppsm-27\/","title":{"rendered":"PPSM 27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here begins Kaare Andrews\u2019 run as a cover artist for the Spider-Office. Under Jemas and Quesada, more and more books will have cover artists who don\u2019t do the interiors, crafting flashy visuals the regular monthly guy wouldn\u2019t have time to do. Like this one. Not Andrews\u2019 last weirdly overt reference to The Dark Knight Returns featuring Spider-Man, but certainly his least offensive. Andrews will later write & draw a miniseries set in the future where he will blatantly rip off Frank Miller\u2019s art style while revealing MJ died of cancer due to Peter\u2019s sperm being radioactive. That\u2019s literally all anyone remembers about that terrible comic, at this point. But, hey, speaking of ripping off art, it\u2019s time for 22 more pages of \u201cguess who drew that first\u201d with Mark Buckingham. We open on a brooding Spider-Man thinking about how he once read the book \u201cHow To Get Ahead,\u201d and its advice for same, then..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s 3 more familiar Spider-Men right off the bat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And more. The next page, he sees a weird blue fire and thinks, \u201cMaybe tomorrow.\u201d It turns out something has caused a huge electrical surge, car accidents, an explosion, and so on. Spider-Man notices the electrical surge seems to be coming from the main screen in Times Square. It feels like it\u2019s gonna be an Electro story as he makes his way up there, and Buckingham goes for the brass ring and swipes fro the 2-page spread in the beginning of Todd McFarlane\u2019s Spider-Man #1. Mendel Stromm! A weird choice. Peter recaps who Mendel Stromm is for the significant chunk of the reading public who probably doesn\u2019t know, and then does what anyone would do next: He goes to see his 10th grade science teacher. What?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Parker has a degree! And the internet! And went to grad school like 3 times! And he turns to his random 10th grade teacher we\u2019ve never heard of!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bzzzzt, why would this lady have known MJ as a \u201cSweet kid\u201d if she didn\u2019t go to high school with Peter? Thanks for playing, Paul Jenkins, we have some lovely parting gifts for you! Some news footage lets us know many people saw that Robotmaster face on screens during the power surges, and then Peter\u2019s off to visit with Randy\u2019s random hacker friend from that one time. He\u2019s hacking into the electrical grid for Peter\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man heads down to that relay station, Bucky uses the SM#1 spread for a SECOND TIME this issue, electricity surges everywhere, and then Spidey descends into the complex looking for his foe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That first panel is swiped from a really ugly Spider-Man that appeared in subscription ads, but I don\u2019t know who drew it. And the bottom one is one Bucky has used many a time since issue 20. This is so annoying. I can barely read these things. Spidey seems the Stromm face on a screen, dodges getting zapped and then sees some of his old robots, and some new ones, bearing down on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So many recycled Spider-Men. And Mendel\u2019s head! Could this be the robot Robotmaster from TAC 68<\/a>? I guess we\u2019ll find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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