{"id":23807,"date":"2024-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=23807"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:41:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:41:06","slug":"asm-v2-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/11\/26\/asm-v2-39\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM V2 39"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Time to see how JMS handles a silent issue. These 2 and the aforementioned New X-Men one are the only ones I can clearly remember. I\u2019m sure Bendis & Maleev did one on Daredevil. I think I was still reading Captain America when this happened, and was definitely reading Avengers and Hulk (Being drawn by Romita, Jr. at the same time as ASM, in his usual fashion). Not really sure how many of these I saw, but the ones I remember are the Spidey ones. The New X-Men one is a little different due to it actually being a crucially important issue of the run, so it\u2019s memorable with or without the silent gimmick. Oh yeah, the Avengers one took place during Busiek\u2019s huge Kang story with Kieron Dwyer. I should really revisit the Busiek Avengers sometime. Hey, I got my tangent in early this post. ASM missed a 2nd month between 38 and 39. Not uncommon in this era. That\u2019s what you get when you obsess over getting marginally famous people to write comics as a much less lucrative side gig. ASM 39 and PPSM 41 hit stands at the same time. We open on a shot of a very fancy building, and guess who\u2019s in it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I guess MJ isn\u2019t a hot dog fan. Bar none, the funniest thing to me about the endless quest to get rid of Spider-Man\u2019s marriage is this period right here. They finally arrived at a reasonable ending. They break up! But everyone involved knew it was just a separation, and they\u2019d be back together eventually. Like people for real thought they were replacing Peter with a clone from the 70s, no hesitation. But \u201cThey broke up\u201d was apparently never even remotely the actual end of their relationship. Anyway, we see MJ has returned to modeling despite saying she didn\u2019t want to in ASM Annual 2001<\/a>, and that\u2019s how she\u2019s in such swanky accommodations. She does some modeling, she greets some fans on the street at lunch. She attends a Hollywood premiere and is visibly bored, but then puts on the MJ face for the crowd as she leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tiiiiny hand in that bottom panel, JR!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She had quite a day. Meanwhile or next day or something, Aunt May is at the library, reading up on Spider-Man. Specifically, she\u2019s reading about him in various newspapers. On a computer! No previous Spider-Writer would EVER have allowed Aunt May to be computer savvy! I so approve. The Bugle is, of course, the Bugle. The NY Herald doesn\u2019t much like Spidey, either. The Brooklyn Banner has a headline called \u201cSpider-Man: Misunderstood?\u201d Aunt May smiles. What, no Daily Globe? What\u2019s Barney Bushkin up to? Well, May then writes emails unsubscribing from the first 2 and subscribing to the 3rd. Getting her licks in where she can for her nephew. Also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a John Romita, Jr. comic, that boy could be anywhere from 6 to 22 years old!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So funny. So funny! I love Aunt May trying to help her poor nephew. I really loved that editorial let May & Peter have this. While it lasted. But it\u2019s not all sunshine in Aunt May\u2019s world\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She heads out into the world to work on those last 2. And now it\u2019s time for the Spider-Man portion of this Spider-Man comic. That is not meant as sarcasm. Especially lately, focus on the supporting cast is much appreciated. Spidey saves a man and his son from a burning building before seeing famous model Mary Jane Watson smiling for the fans as she leaves a big Hollywood premiere on some TVs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That was a nice one! They don\u2019t have to be extremely broad mime comics just because they\u2019re silent. The difference in the scripts is really something. Jenkins\u2019 script was conversational. It\u2019s a long letter to his friend Mark Buckingham that happens to include instructions for drawing a comic. Straczynski, trained in TV, is all business. He describes the MJ on page 2 as being in \u201csomething knee-bucklingly revealing,\u201d in case you were wondering whose idea that was. She is later described as \u201cbarely wearing a towel\u201d and \u201cmodeling a micro-bikini.\u201d JR never seemed to go in for the cheesecake thing too much. This was by far the most sexualized MJs he\u2019s ever drawn before or since, but he was just following orders. Well, anyway, Nuff Said has completed here on the blog. It was a fun stunt. Back to normal programming next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time to see how JMS handles a silent issue. These 2 and the aforementioned New X-Men one are the only ones I can clearly remember. I\u2019m sure Bendis & Maleev did one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864,1],"tags":[1863,35,1982,1981,118,21,417,2],"class_list":["post-23807","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-j-michael-straczynski","tag-john-romita-jr","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-scott-hanna","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807","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=23807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23811,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807\/revisions\/23811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}