{"id":23815,"date":"2024-11-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=23815"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:41:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:41:06","slug":"asm-v2-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/11\/28\/asm-v2-41\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM V2 41"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This cover shoulda been a poster or t-shirt or something. Both. I kind of think of this as the \u201cWell, now what?\u201d era of this run. JMS comes in hot with the totems, Ezekiel, Morlun, Peter\u2019s new job, May learning Peter\u2019s secret, boom boom boom boom. The blockbuster concepts of the pitch. And now, he\u2019s gotta starting making the donuts every 30 days like everyone else. Coming from TV, he is maybe more prepared for this than a lot of the non-comics folks Jemas and Quesada approached, and maybe that\u2019s why JMS hung around when most of them didn\u2019t, but still, this stuff doesn\u2019t feel as focused or as momentous as the opening salvo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Johnny doing something of an homage to his dad\u2019s cover to ASM 68<\/a>. You don\u2019t see him do that sort of thing much at all over 50+ years in comics. I almost wonder if Straczynski asked for it. Spidey is recapping what he\u2019s up to, and mentioning how he didn\u2019t find anything in web searches makes him think he\u2019d be rich if he\u2019d gotten some proper trademarks before the internet put the word \u201cweb\u201d everywhere. Then there\u2019s a weird tangent about not liking to have to upgrade Windows (??), and then we can get on with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interesting thing here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Feels like the dialogue intended for panel 1 of this 2nd page is in panel 7 of the previous one, and that continues. JR tended to move things around sometimes to highlight a moment, and I wonder if that\u2019s what happened here. I wonder if JMS wasn\u2019t planning for panel 7, and something didn\u2019t get properly fixed. Panel 1 is clearly her celebrating \u201cYou said it!\u201d while panel 2 is the sobering up \u201cthank you for saving Johnny\u201d moment, but the dialogue is behind the art, and then it syncs back up in panel 3. Also, again, how old is this kid meant to be? I think she\u2019s supposed to be like 15, 16, but look at that height difference.  Well, anyway, Spider-Man goes and finds Lt. Lamont, and they begin some very heightened banter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lamont seems to be having a lot more fun than  all previous cops in the Spider-Books. Also, very Bugs Bunny Spider-Man, which is always correct. Next page, we\u2019re at Aunt May\u2019s house, and a family is walking down the street in the establishing shot, featuring 2 kids with their names written on their shirts, which makes me assume someone got themselves drawn into this comic. Peter is telling May the broad strokes of what he\u2019s been up to as Spider-Man. May tells him to go get the roast out of the oven and she\u2019ll be in in a minute. She\u2019s writing letters to every paper and magazine in town saying people want positive Spider-Man stories. She doesn\u2019t think anyone read her emails. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean, this is great stuff, and it\u2019s great stuff no one ever had a chance to do before. May also wants Peter to know MJ is coming in on Tuesday, and only there for one night so he should meet her at the airport. Bets on that working out? Then we jump to Spidey in the car with his new pal, Lamont, learning about \u201cthe Shade,\u201d who absolutely did not say his name during their encounter last issue, so how does Spidey know it? Lamont says the tattoo matches a guy at Latterbery\u2019s, which is a mental institution. He\u2019s going to get Spider-Man in to see him\u2026 wearing a fedora and trenchcoat. Classic. There are jokes about Spider-Man smelling like Clorox, and then we\u2019re there. Spidey wonders why their guy would come back here if he didn\u2019t have to, and then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So the guy now sort of known as the Shade entered the Astral Plane, but this guy messed up the circle, so the connection was bad. The Shade vanished while begging for help, and this guy saw Dr. Strange stuff that wound him up in a mental institution. Lamont says the Shade must\u2019ve been this guy\u2019s cell mate, and he\u2019ll try to find out who that was. Spidey, for his part, swings across town to ask an authority on these matters, because\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026no one can resist pairing Ditko\u2019s 2 biggest creations for long, it seems. This issue frustratingly features part 2 of a thing serialized in the back of some comics (I guess?) for which I can\u2019t readily produce part 1. I don\u2019t even remember if I saw all of it. I think there\u2019s a better place to talk about it, so I\u2019ll just save it for later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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