{"id":24721,"date":"2025-01-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=24721"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:40:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:40:24","slug":"asm-v2-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/01\/24\/asm-v2-54\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM V2 54"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This month, we randomly have a cover by Terry & Rachel Dodson. Not their last appearance on this blog. The Spider-Office seems to have been booking cover artists for 3 each, but the Dodsons just do the one here, and J. Scott Campbell only did 2 this time, and I wonder about that. We join Spider-Man preparing to break into a high end medical testing facility, both because they won\u2019t be open for a few hours and he\u2019s in a hurry, and because he couldn\u2019t afford to go there anyway. I\u2019m just realizing this comic has 4 pages that were cut just slightly too big. Don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen that particular printing error before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A savvy businessman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laying it on a BIT thick, I must say. But, then, they were apart a long time. Spider-Man heads out to first talk to Lamont about his plan, then see Forelli. He\u2019s in the process of begging Forelli to be straight with him about why Digger hates him and also to leave because he\u2019s sure Digger is going to come here when Digger comes smashing through the window. But not Forelli\u2019s window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Romita does a cool sort of montage fight page while JMS does narration about how sometimes the scientist has to get out of the spider\u2019s way when he\u2019s in situations like this, which is a bit labored. During a break in the action, Digger complains that things were better back in his day, and this world deserves to be put out of its misery, starting with Forelli. Comics\u2019 most dangerous \u201cyou kids get off my lawn\u201d speech! Meanwhile, Forelli finds they can\u2019t get out of the building, that digger damaged that load bearing wall on purpose to trap them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey is thrown against Forelli\u2019s living room wall for a brief bit of banter through the window as Digger escapes into the sewer, but Spidey is right behind him, saying \u201cEnd of the line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cut to Peter & MJ at a purposely vague location, with Peter nailing something to a wall. MJ notes that he was too ready with that theory about the Hulk, and asks if it was something he\u2019d thought about before. He says all the heroes secretly look for weaknesses when they meet, in case they might have to take the other down some day. That he has a Hulk plan, but it would kill him, and he doesn\u2019t want to think about this. This is all similar to the stuff DC was up to with Batman in the late 90s & early 2000s, where it came out that he had contingency plans for the whole Justice League when those plans fell into the wrong hands. Anyway, we finally see what Peter was working on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s sweet. It\u2019d be nice if we ever heard about it again. How\u2019s it going? What\u2019s it do? Does Peter manage it, or just donate enough money to name it? We\u2019ll never know. Next, we switch back to PPSM for a couple posts, with a very unusual artists to close out the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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