{"id":25659,"date":"2025-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=25659"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:39:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:39:42","slug":"asm-v2-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/03\/15\/asm-v2-57\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM V2 57"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An extremely weird cover from Tony Harris. Has he done one already? That Tangled Web block really threw me off, hard to remember. He really made his name on a Starman series at DC with James Robinson before developing this more \u201crealistic\u201d style. At this point, he\u2019s about to start a book with Brian K. Vaughan called Ex Machina, and a few years out from being caught tracing, and then staging a very embarrassing photo of himself and presenting it as the \u201creal\u201d source of the image despite it being visibly different from the image he copied and his own drawing. I think his career wasn\u2019t too damaged, but the whole incident was pretty cringy. Anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A very new Ol\u2019 Parker Luck. Here\u2019s a tangent: I don\u2019t recall anyone writing at this time making anything of Peter Parker having health insurance for possibly the first time in his adult life. I guess he probably had it on staff at the Daily Globe (Boy, that was awhile ago, yeah?), but that was a different time. We\u2019re in an era where Spider-Man, who famously catches colds and gets beat up all the time, can go see the doctor without nearly the financial burden (Especially in 2003). Seems like something you\u2019d use just to point it out. Anyway, Peter goes to duel with this administrator lady, who really sucks and won\u2019t take responsibility or help at all, and mostly just deals in gossip and comments on Peter calling in sick too much, forcing him to leave with no resolution. We hop ahead to dinner at Aunt May\u2019s, where he\u2019s telling her & MJ about it, opining that he doesn\u2019t understand why people with authority so delight in wielding it against people. Aunt May notes that it really offends him, and then asks why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s some real 1980s, John Byrne-style cheesecake. JMS seems pretty into sexing this book up. Soon, Spider-Man is swinging toward the light, where he finds a crazy double-splash page of many of your favorite heroes fighting an overwhelming army of Mindless Ones, one of Dr. Strange\u2019s usual problems, which seem to have overrun Times Square. Strange isn\u2019t there, but Iron Man, Thor and the FF are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So fun to see Romita, Jr. drawing the various heroes and going crazy on this stuff. Seeing him revisit Iron Man, whom he got his start on and did two memorable runs with, and Thor, who he only got finished with a year or two prior, is a treat, and the fact that the FF are the only major Marvel property he never did a significant run on makes any time he draws them seem special. Spidey and Thing are doing ok, but someone screams for help. Thing tells Spidey to go, he can handle this. And so he does, fretting that it\u2019s the regular people who suffer most from things like this as he finds a woman in peril. He scoops her up and swings off, but is distracted by her voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The evil administrator from earlier. Not his finest moment. Our guy swings back to the fight, where a Cyclops in regular clothes has joined Iron Man and Thor in their corner of the battle. X-Men yet another book Johnny has a storied history with (TWO seminal runs, plus that insane Cable miniseries in \u201892 and a year on Wolverine after he leaves this run on ASM), Cyclops yet another character it\u2019s fun to see him draw again. Then Reed flies in with the aforementioned doohickey and asks anyone who can to join him on a nearby roof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So Iron Man, Thor, Torch and Cyclops fire all their zaps into the beam Reed is generating (Spider-Man proving less helpful than he anticipated), but just as Reed\u2019s doohickey begins to explode, Dr. Strange arrives to tell them they\u2019ve all made a grave mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s who the ol\u2019 Mindless Ones are usually workin\u2019 for, yeah. One wonders why Strackzynski never did a Dr. Strange book. He was obviously trying to. He teased that mini that never happened. He couldn\u2019t stop putting him in Spider-Man. Seems like it was something he was really into, and yet… nothing. Well, the boys are in for it now. I guess. I mean, Dr. Strange has whupped Dormammu by himself a hundred times by now. He\u2019s got a pretty small and unimpressive rogue\u2019s gallery, meaning he\u2019ll have fought Dormammu way more often than Spider-Man\u2019s fought Doc Ock or the FF have fought Dr. Doom. And this time he has many of Marvel\u2019s marquee heroes at his side. Doesn\u2019t seem like it should be too much trouble. But this is a 3-parter, so\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An extremely weird cover from Tony Harris. Has he done one already? That Tangled Web block really threw me off, hard to remember. He really made his name on a Starman series…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864,1],"tags":[1863,35,77,1982,49,1714,72,64,1981,118,21,2086,247,417,2,663,65],"class_list":["post-25659","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-cyclops","tag-dan-kemp","tag-doctor-strange","tag-dormammu","tag-human-torch","tag-iron-man","tag-j-michael-straczynski","tag-john-romita-jr","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-mindless-ones","tag-reed-richards","tag-scott-hanna","tag-spider-man","tag-the-thing","tag-thor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25659","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=25659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25671,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25659\/revisions\/25671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}