{"id":26555,"date":"2025-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=26555"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:39:10","slug":"asm-511","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/05\/08\/asm-511\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 511"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This cover straight up looks like it\u2019s 1997. Well, this comic opens with Spider-Man removing his mask to cry, thinking this can\u2019t be real, but maybe it it, and he has to know for sure. But first, he has to go do this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The schizophrenic nature of Deodato\u2019s art in this period is really on full display here. A couple repeated panels of \u201cphotorealism\u201d with that warped, late 90s human figure in panel 3. The 2 things don\u2019t gel at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI have to go learn the truth about Gwen\u2019s kids. But first, I have to go not tell MJ what\u2019s going on, so she can worry.\u201d Ace move, Pete. To achieve his goal of getting the truth, he proceeds to 2 pages that literally do not make any sense to me. He\u2019s arrived at Gwen\u2019s grave in regular clothes with a long metal pole. He is weeping. He apologizes to Gwen, saying he has to know the truth, and that she\u2019d want him to find the truth, as he drives the pole into the ground. Then cries as the watching Gabriel says he\u2019s \u201cjust confirmed his worst nightmare.\u201d Genuinely no idea what\u2019s going on. How does this confirm anything other than, I guess, that the pole hit a coffin, and thus Gwen must presumably be down there? Unless, like, Aunt May is down there, you understand, she could be in any grave from now on. How did this reveal anything? I\u2019m so confused. And then we cut to MJ at work, rehearsing a scene under the watchful eye of Robert Deniro. One of her coworkers is a class A jerk who\u2019s mean to Deniro and to MJ behind their backs. I don\u2019t care about this guy! As MJ goes home distracted to uncover Peter\u2019s secret, which is the letter taped to the ceiling, even tho Deodato drew an empty space in the middle last time (And even tho his webbing shouldn\u2019t be able to last this long, but that\u2019s a common JMS problem, somehow), that guy keeps talking trash about MJ until his other fellow actors all roll up their scripts and chase him down the hall hitting him with them, which\u2026 ok. Nice guys, cool, whatever. I mean, it\u2019s been way too long since MJ was an actual character in these pages, and I like her having her own plotline, but it can\u2019t help but feel like a distraction when you\u2019ve just casually implied Gwen had children and now they\u2019ve impossibly appeared as murderous grownups. Meanwhile, Spider-Man has broken into a skyscraper with \u201cQG\u201d on the side, and has apparently procured genetic samples of Gwen with that pole (So how did that \u201cconfirm his worst nightmare?\u201d What was going on back there!?), and is now examining that material with this place\u2019s fancy equipment. What is QG? This comic is so full of weird turns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why does everyone know \u201cQG\u201d is the place to go for genetic testing!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That distraction lets Spider-Man attack, and while she gets a shot to graze the side of his arm (Which Deodato immediately forgets to draw from here on out, even in the very next panel), he disarms her pretty easily and unmasks her. As on the cover, she looks like Gwen, even wearing the headband, which is just so stupid. She says Gabe thinks she looks like every picture they\u2019ve seen of their mother, and what does he think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh yeah?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And with those words, an already all-time worst idea for a Spider-Man story somehow gets worse next issue!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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