{"id":24380,"date":"2025-01-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=24380"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:40:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:40:38","slug":"ppsm-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/01\/02\/ppsm-44\/","title":{"rendered":"PPSM 44"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I managed to get ASM way out ahead of PPSM last block, so there are big chunks of PPSM in this one. And here we are. Not satisfied with just providing some terrible covers, Humberto Ramos is on deck for interiors, inked by Wayne Faucher and colored by Studio F, as the Green Goblin returns yet again. This is the storyline I thought was the \u201cRevenge of the Green Goblin\u201d miniseries awhile back. Given the complete anti-climax and general disappointment of that whole storyline, it\u2019s maybe not surprising I forgot about it, and transposed this actual, legit return of the Goblin onto it. Much like that last story, this was billed as a super important, dark, serious rematch between the 2. This one almost has to be better, storywise. Artwise, tho\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aunt May looks more like a goblin than the issue\u2019s villain. Art is subjective, and while I would never tell anyone what they can or cannot like, I will never, ever understand the appeal of this art. While whatever\u2019s happening there happens there, we cut to Norman Osborn, also out in the rain, but telling a lackey he likes it. He\u2019s having random flashbacks to being the Goblin as he visits Harry\u2019s grave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAll these years,\u201d eh? Something like 8 years in the real world, as I recall, which, in Marvel time, has to be 1-2 years, tops, and shrinking all the time. We really are just right back where they left off 19 issues ago. Considering how that encounter ended with Norman just leaving for no reason, this story could have happened that same night and made a lot more sense. Back at May\u2019s house, the utterly hideous Peter is distant and unable to tell the even more hideous May why he came over. He says he keeps having this dream, but he can\u2019t tell her what it is. He says there\u2019s only one person who would understand, he can\u2019t reach him. Meanwhile, Norman suits up in his terrible new Green Goblin suit, Ramos\u2019 lasting contribution, has his secretary cancel his appointments \u201cfor the next few days,\u201d and flies off into the night. Peter calls MJ, who, let me tell you, looks insane, but he can\u2019t speak when she answer (As \u201cMary Jane Watson\u201d), and hangs up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\u2019re sure having fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can\u2019t really see it in this scenario, but he\u2019s got a new look. The original look is, admittedly, rather dated. It could use an update. Ramos\u2019 idea was to make him look like a He-Man villain. It\u2019s not great! Anyway, fight fight fight, depressive narration, cryptic Goblin comments, it\u2019s all very familiar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nearly impossible to tell what\u2019s happening in panels 2 and 6. Another Ramos speciality, although the murky color isn\u2019t doing him any favors. Goblin seems to have stabbed Peter with\u2026 something or other. A broken pipe? A soda can? Ramos draws it 3 times and there\u2019s still no way to tell what it is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I just cannot with this. So awful. The rest of this issue is part 3 of a series of Spider-Man backup stories that ran in most Marvel comics, for some reason. Weirdly, tho, I never saw part one in any Spider-Mans this time out. I saw part 2 in block 57, but I assumed I could find part one and do them all in a single post. Not sure now, tho. I\u2019ll have to look through some other titles and see if I can find part one. It\u2019s really bad, is the thing. Makes Fast Lane look really great by comparison. So I\u2019m not super motivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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