{"id":26545,"date":"2025-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=26545"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:39:10","slug":"asm-510","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/05\/07\/asm-510\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 510"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This issue opens with a page rather awkwardly cutting panels from 3 different pages from last issue together showing Peter fighting his mystery assailants and Gwen\u2019s headstone, then a page that\u2019s half the panel showing Gwen\u2019s letter again and half Peter reading it, only now he\u2019s reading it a 2nd time. And Peter has a bunch of random posters on the wall of other Marvel stories Deodato drew, like a Nightcrawler story, a Dr. Strange spin-off called Witches, and some kind of military themed pin-up of some woman I don\u2019t recognize. Totally what he\u2019d have on the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You don\u2019t think you gave anything away when you fought with inhuman strength and then escaped by leaping through the air and sticking to a truck????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ll give Straczynski this, which is probably the last thing I\u2019ll give him during this story: He\u2019s not crapping on MJ. The amount of writers who are totally willing to portray Gwen as Peter\u2019s one, true love and MJ as just some lady, even when they\u2019re married, is kind of staggering, and this could\u2019ve easily gone that way. They don\u2019t seem to understand their nostalgia for Gwen makes Peter a horrible person. They go downstairs, and May hands Peter an envelope left for him, which contains pictures of a man helping May carry groceries and a woman asking MJ for directions, their faces blurred, with the note \u201cWE CAN KILL THEM WHENEVER WE WANT.\u201d Peter asks them if these events occurred, then rather uncharacteristically keeps the news to himself. The guy who sent MJ out of town, destination unknown, when May was kidnapped? The guy DeMatteis would\u2019ve shown flying into a rage and storming out of the room? Later, our old friend Detective Lamont is allegedly talking to a boorish coworker. Not only does it not look like him because Deodato is just using some guy as a model, but he also looks significantly younger and his hair is blond. The whole art team messed this one up. Spider-Man appears out the window holding a sign that says \u201cROOF TEN MINUTES.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is Lamont Robert Redford? And look, Deo traced a McFarlane in panel 3, so classy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How does JMS have no idea how long Spider-Man\u2019s web lasts? He keeps changing it, and he\u2019s never right. And look at that horrible drawing in panel 1! Good grief. Maybe Lamont isn\u2019t Robert Redford. My only saving grace reading stuff like this is I don\u2019t actually pay much attention to celebrities, so I don\u2019t get all of the lifts. Peter then calls MJ to make sure she\u2019s ok and get a pep talk, then tries to call\u2026 Aunt Anna\u2019s place, where they\u2019ve sent May to hang out! I guess she\u2019s back in New York. but the phone doesn\u2019t ring. Instead, a man intercepts the call, saying \u201cwe\u201d have his Aunt and to meet him at an address in 10 minutes or she\u2019s dead. And, obviously, they don\u2019t have her, but this is coming out the same month as MKSM 4<\/a>, and \u201cSpider-Man, we have you\u2019re aunt\u201d is OVERPLAYED this month, man! Spider-Man arrives at the location, Deodato swipes a Joe Bennett drawing, and Spidey sees Aunt May tied to a chair in an abandoned factory.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The place explodes, and we find Spider-Man in the rubble outside, the same drawing as the cover, before one of his mysterious assailants boot shim in the face and starts asking him how it feels to be helpless and abandoned, even tho he is not abandoned by anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter flashes back to ASM 121<\/a>, right after he, MJ & Gwen were visiting Harry after he relapsed, and Gwen gets Peter alone, asking if he\u2019d still love her no matter what she told him, which is just bad writing. Yes, Straczynski wants to allude to Gwen needing to tell him something, but \u201cWould you love me no matter what I told you?\u201d is a stupid sentence. \u201cNo matter what I\u2019ve done,\u201d \u201cno matter what happens,\u201d that sort of thing, ok. \u201cNo matter what I told you?\u201d That just makes it sound like she\u2019s about to say the Illuminati is real or she was abducted by aliens or something. He wakes up asking the Gwen in his head what he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, the implication is Gwen had secret children, and they are somehow adults trying to kill him. Could that possibly be true? I mean, take a wild guess!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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