{"id":26575,"date":"2025-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=26575"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:39:10","slug":"asm-513","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/05\/10\/asm-513\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 513"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wonder why everyone had Norman Osborn on the brain this year. Why did he figure so prominently in The Pulse and 2 Spider-Man titles. Pulse 5, MKSM 6 and ASM 512 are all the same month! Norman\u2019s being arrested, bragging about killing that guard\u2019s wife while in prison, and being revealed as the father of Gwen\u2019s children at the same time. What was in the water? Nothing about Spider-Man\u2019s legs and pelvis makes sense on this cover. Deodato going from a tenuous-at-best grasp on anatomy to a too-perfect, sometimes obviously 3D model-based version later is so jarring. The primitive models he was using in the 2010s, like, when you lift their arms up, the pecs don\u2019t move properly. It was such a tell. I had the same software, I knew exactly what I was looking at. One assumes Poser models are more sophisticated today, and yet his art remains as completely devoid of life and energy as ever. I just\u2026 don\u2019t want to talk about this comic book. But I guess I gotta. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On page one, Peter and MJ recap at each other under the guise of \u201cgoing over what they know\u201d because JMS just won\u2019t embrace the recap page. One wonders why the Goblin formula makes Gabriel & Sarah age so rapidly if it\u2019s, you know, never done that to the myriad people who took it (Including, but maybe not limited to, Norman, Harry, Roderick Kingsley, and didn\u2019t Jason Philip Macendale finally get it in the early clone 90s? I can\u2019t recall). MJ says they don\u2019t know how to get in touch with the kids to try to help them, but Peter says he has a method, that \u201conce loosed, is as unstoppable as the juggernaut and twice as ugly.\u201d Oh, do tell. Then a mindboggling 2 pages are wasted on a protracted Komedy Bit about the news reporting Spider-Man is going to hold a press conference, and consulting their resident Spider-Man expert, who\u2019s some weird, sweaty nerd with a bunch of increasingly stupid, I mean funny, bits of video footage. I guess they thought this story was getting too serious. They then throw to the steps of the Daily Bugle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Deodato sucks so bad he can\u2019t decide whether there\u2019s 5 lines or 4 on the bottom of the Spider-Man mask in all these mostly-the-same drawings on a single page! Spider-Man swings off, and a news van follows. What\u2026 about having this press conference was so catastrophic? Was that a joke? Nothing happened! Then Spider-Man\u2019s back on a the friggin bridge, and hilariously\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bro you are on this bridge twice a month! That\u2019s hilarious. That\u2019s so \u201cI don\u2019t care about what\u2019s come before\u201d of Straczynski. Well, Spider-Man stands there for half an hour, then the kids show, telling him to say what he has to say, but no tricks. Meanwhile, the news van is below, deciding to send out their footage of this live, but without audio, because the supers are too far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why bother pretending Peter isn\u2019t Spider-Man??? That makes NO SENSE. I mean, I don\u2019t expect much from this pile of shit, but that is a completely unnecessary overcomplication. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Again, if any of that were true of the rapid aging, how is Norman alive? How is Kingsley? Go fish, Straczynski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I still do not understand the giant pole for Gwen\u2019s DNA. It\u2019s so specific I feel like I\u2019m missing something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Look at that awful, awful face. Ugh. They fight for awhile, Sarah doing the \u201cOh, Gabe, no!\u201d helpless female thing that was played out and dead tired even in 2004, then the cops start shooting and order them all to surrender. Gabriel naturally thinks this was all part of Spider-Man\u2019s scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean, it\u2019s almost comical. Spider-Man being forced to redo the Gwen death fall TWICE IN 2004!!! UGH. Spider-Man catches her, of course, and swings her to a hospital, where a guy who identifies as a compose is being a real jerk to a nurse, which has to be a reference to someone in JMS\u2019s life. Then Spider-Man bursts in with Sarah and says he\u2019ll tear the place apart if she doesn\u2019t get care. Very cool, dude. Meanwhile, Gabriels sloshing through the sewer to a secret safehouse Norman told them to go to when they\u2019d killed Peter and Spider-Man someday, and you\u2019ll never guess what\u2019s inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Small kudos, I guess, for that not being variations on the Ramos costume. Like it woulda been for Doc Ock earlier this year. The past is allowed to exist in this story where you wish it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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