{"id":23564,"date":"2024-11-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=23564"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:41:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:41:25","slug":"asm-v2-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/11\/12\/asm-v2-31\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM V2 31"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019ll keep it a buck, I\u2019m not a big fan of J. Scott Campbell. His art\u2019s weird. He made his bones drawing sexy girls, but \u201csexy\u201d according to whomst? We\u2019ll eventually see what he thinks a sexy girl looks like. Anyway, what\u2019s going on on this cover? We\u2019ll see. Also, I didn\u2019t mention last month that I really like JR\u2019s new corner box Spidey, but I\u2019m sure that\u2019s no surprise. This semi-retro cover treatment is pretty good. We open on Peter Parker at Aunt May\u2019s dinner table, haunted by Ezekiel asking him the big question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I liked JMS\u2019s Aunt May right off the bat, and still do. She\u2019s not radically different from what came before, but she\u2019s got a life to her that few people outside Roger Stern (And, to be fair, JM DeMatteis) were willing to give her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Love those sketchy flashbacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like\u2026 the crazy thing here is\u2026 I mean, this is not a remarkable scene. But after the first 29 months of the relaunch? This is revelatory! Real people talking! Good grief, it\u2019s such a breath of fresh air. It\u2019s not hard to see why this run was heralded as a return to greatness. It almost doesn\u2019t matter how good the stories are. ASM doesn\u2019t feel like they\u2019re desperately laying track in front of the train for the first time in over 2 years. And, again, this Aunt May rules. The \u201csir\u201d in the caption down there is Ezekiel, who, we learn, is on the board of an unspecified company, and it is doing very well. Then Big E sees Spider-Man swing by and ends the meeting he\u2019s in. Another board member confirms Ezekiel \u201cmade contact last night,\u201d against their recommendations, and warns him this could destroy them. Ominous!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like I said last time, I don\u2019t think Spider-Man\u2019s suit should be shiny, and I also think the little pops look really cool. It\u2019s a paradox. Our man is so scared he can\u2019t swing away. He looks around for anything that might\u2019ve done this to him and can\u2019t see anything. Then he crawls away instead of swinging, still scared. Below, Morlun comments on how it\u2019s sad, but it\u2019s always sad, and Dex asks Morlun to kill him, but he refuses, in a way that lets us know they talk about this a lot. Later, Peter goes to enquire about that teaching credential May mentioned. We spend a whole page watching him see a spider and let it crawl on him, smiling, but he\u2019s Peter Parker, so naturally a guy with an AK-47 starts shooting the place up. Peter rushes to shepherd everyone in the hall into a classroom, and suddenly finds himself in charge of a bunch of kids during an active shooter situation. 2001, man. It\u2019s crazy to think this was a somewhat novel scenario at the time, and not just a nauseatingly normal part of life\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ugh. Crushing it. In a spectacular 2-page spread, Spider-Man leaps through a hail of gunfire and tackles the assailant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grim. But, sadly, relevant then and relevant now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Staczynski really hit this book like a truck. For my money, the most daring and drastic first issue by a new creative team of all time is probably Walt Simsonson\u2019s first issue of Thor as writer\/artist, wherein an alien comes to Earth, beats up Thor and steals his hammer. Just a real \u201cHey, we\u2019re doing things differently now.\u201d But first Ezekiel and now a totally new career for Peter in just 2 months. On the one hand, Peter Parker: Science Teacher makes sense. When this first came out, I hadn\u2019t seen him teaching in the 70s as part of grad school, it only makes more sense now. On the other hand, it\u2019s a tough job to be Spider-Man with. But that makes for some good tension. Straczynski is shaking things up. And just getting started, too\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ll keep it a buck, I\u2019m not a big fan of J. Scott Campbell. His art\u2019s weird. He made his bones drawing sexy girls, but \u201csexy\u201d according to whomst? We\u2019ll eventually see…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864,1],"tags":[1863,35,1982,1985,1983,1981,118,1984,417,2],"class_list":["post-23564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-uncategorized","tag-amazing-spider-man-vol-2","tag-aunt-may","tag-dan-kemp","tag-dex","tag-ezekiel","tag-j-michael-straczynski","tag-john-romita-jr","tag-morlun","tag-scott-hanna","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23564","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=23564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23565,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23564\/revisions\/23565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}