{"id":27006,"date":"2025-06-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=27006"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:38:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:38:59","slug":"tac-v2-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/06\/07\/tac-v2-15\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC V2 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We\u2019re back to the original recipe Spider-Man. This block contains 35 comics and only 4 issues of ASM. It\u2019s feeling like the mid-90s all over again. But to start, strap in for one of the worst Spider-Man stories of all time, which is part of a big event that\u2019s also pretty bad, for which all tie-ins didn\u2019t\u2026 didn\u2019t tie in too well. It\u2019s such a mess I\u2019m not even sure how to cover it. The pieces do not fit together. But, look, we have this fine Steve Epting cover. Epting was doing his thing in the 90s, with a long run on Avengers. I did not care for his work. I think maybe he doesn\u2019t care for that period of his work, either. But that was a decade ago, and in the 2000s, he returns to Marvel with a completely new art style that is sleek and appealing, somehow very classic looking while perfectly suited to the \u201crealism\u201d trend of the moment at the same time. No small feat. And at this moment, he is either juuuust about to get the gig drawing Captain America, a historic run where he will co-create the Winter Soldier with Ed Brubaker, among other things, or he\u2019s already working on it. So this cover was like a vision of things to come. Sadly, he does not provide interiors. Inside, it\u2019s still Paul Jenkins, this month working with Michael Ryan on pencils and inks, and Studio F on colors as per usual. This storyline will have several artists, for some reason. This one opens with a full page of some guy imagining his life as a sitcom intro until he\u2019s interrupted by a loud \u201cMMMMMMMMMMM.\u201d This is shown to be reverberating throughout the city, stopping everyone who hears it in their tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who\u2019s that? She\u2019s not on the next page, so we\u2019ll have to wait to find out. We instead cut to Peter & MJ enjoying a quiet time at home when Peter goes to wash his hands. I don\u2019t know why, he didn\u2019t seem to be doing anything before. Anyway\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don\u2019t know a whole lot about Michale Ryan. Not a lot of personal experience. Pretty sure he drew a short stint on Runaways that I read. Kind of walking a line. Not in the cartoony camp, but not in the realism camp, either. Just sort of stylized. Well, elsewhere, Captain America is just standing on a roof when a SHIELD chopper appears to ask him for help. Then:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She\u2019s not very nice. We then find Spider-Man swinging into the city, looking for the source of his headache, and Captain America parachuting in nearby, as people are rioting and acting crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, sure. Spider-Man, who is both friend and fan of Captain America, suddenly thinks he\u2019s a loser\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And, naturally, Cap is a humorless government thug. Of course! This period of writers who just do not care about writing these characters correctly kills me. Up at the top of this building, a police copter swoops in to ask her what her deal is, and she makes it collapse in on itself and begin to plummet. It goes right by Spider-Man, who\u2026 does absolutely nothing. It somehow crashes into the side of the building and gets stuck there, and he doesn\u2019t do anything! What a jerk! Cap is proceeding through the building, and he\u2019s worried what\u2019ll happen when Spider-Man reaches the mystery woman, which he just has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThat reeks!\u201d Much like this story!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The lady says Spider-Man is a survivor, and she likes that. Speaking of survivors, she tells him to think of her as the biggest cockroach he ever saw. Very appealing. Cap arrives and chucks his shield at her, but one of her drones jumps in the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So they know each other and she\u2019s called Ana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By this point, it\u2019s hard to remember a time when Jenkins was considered a breath of fresh air on these books. He has long overstayed his welcome. And we\u2019re just getting started, believe me. This story is insane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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