{"id":24193,"date":"2024-12-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=24193"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:40:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:40:47","slug":"usm-026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/12\/20\/usm-026\/","title":{"rendered":"USM 026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This cover always seemed like a miss to me. Weird composition, and the background is really distracting. The Spider-Man, tho, would go on to be used in commercial products. Well, this one starts with another time rewind, but a much shorter one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So some helicopters opened fire on Green Goblin, not seeming to have much effect. While all that\u2019s going on, we get back to the thing we care about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that is definitely the first time Bendis really let me down. This bait & switch was just completely beyond justification. The events of this page are CLEARLY not the events of the last couple pages of USM 25. He even changed the dialogue! To this day, I don\u2019t get it. It\u2019s a cheap thing to do, and the first real misstep in 25 issues. Universally panned by us forum folks. I can remember B trying to justify it, but I can\u2019t remember how, probably because it didn\u2019t hold water at all. How could it? There was, at least, a way to have it play out just like last issue, with him thinking she\u2019s dead, only for her to wake with a start, but they didn\u2019t even bother. A rare poor decision around here, but a pretty major one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Osborn\u2019s up there shooting his fire or whatever at the copters, which he is surprised to see have plasma shields. But then Spider-Man is on him. He comes flying in and lands a two-fisted punch in the face, then disappears, only to flip up from below and kick Goblin in the face before flipping around and beginning to pound away on Goblin\u2019s face, saying he won\u2019t let him hurt anyone ever again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Feel like Thibert is suddenly inking the webs on Spider-Man\u2019s costume thicker this issue. I wonder if they were considering doing more movie-style shiny webbing inside as well as on the covers at some point. Exit the Goblin, stage left, pursued by helicopters, and Spider-Man manages to get a web out and slam into the bridge instead of plunging into the river. Then he follows the fracas, worried that Harry is now in danger. Osborn smashes into his office, bleeding a sickly yellow from his mouth,  saying the Oz has almost worn off, smashing into the secret area of his office to get more, but of course, an off-panel voice says \u201cDad?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that\u2019s why some of the voices in Norman\u2019s head were saying \u201cCellar door\u201d over and over last issue. Norman juices himself with not one, but 2 more doses of Oz, becoming even more demonic and spiky looking, and then Spider-Man catches up to him. Spidey says he\u2019s not scared of the Goblin, and this ends tonight, and the now barely coherent monster that used to be Norman attacks, eventually grabbing our man by the ankle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Things are looking bad! Who knows what\u2019ll happen next issue? Well, I mean, I do, but who knew when this was released?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This cover always seemed like a miss to me. Weird composition, and the background is really distracting. The Spider-Man, tho, would go on to be used in commercial products. Well, this one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864,1],"tags":[498,1922,16,22,339,21,39,2,1956,1923],"class_list":["post-24193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-uncategorized","tag-art-thibert","tag-brian-michael-bendis","tag-gwen-stacy","tag-harry-osborn","tag-mark-bagley","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-norman-osborn","tag-spider-man","tag-transparency-digital","tag-ultimate-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24193","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=24193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24194,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24193\/revisions\/24194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}