{"id":27148,"date":"2025-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=27148"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:38:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:38:44","slug":"tac-v2-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/06\/12\/tac-v2-17\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC V2 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, yeah, back to this. As we\u2019ve seen, Disassembled was a totally self-contained story. But they had the idea to create a bunch of tie-ins where\u2026 bad things happened to people. Ostensibly because of Wanda\u2019s hex, but of the ones I read, none of them really fit into the main narrative in any way (And in Captain America & The Falcon, Cap randomly had a brief romantic encounter with Wanda, I guess while she was destroying everything? Very confusing, but that story, by Christopher Priest and former blog regular Joe Bennett, was better than the main one). Ragnarok came and Thor died (It was a clean place to end his title due to dwindling interest. His book would stay canceled for several years before being revived by J. Michael Straczynski and the aforementioned Olivier Coipel for a critically acclaimed run). Two different Captain America monthlies tied in with unrelated stories. FF & Iron Man also got disassembled. And this story happened to Spider-Man. Why Spider-Man? He was a reserve Avenger at best in this moment (Seemingly not even that thanks to Millar\u2019s stupid story). The FF at least feature at least 2, maybe 4 former full-time Avengers (And that\u2019s not even counting She-Hulk), but Spider-Man is ancillary to the Avengers at best. I think the answer was just $$$. Anyway, because it doesn\u2019t relate to the main story, but is branded as such, I decided to hold it til the main story was over. I dunno. I make up the rules as I go. Once you see how this goes, I have a hard time imagining this story happened and then Spidey just bopped over to the mansion in time for the Kree part like it was whatever. Anyway, as if this couldn\u2019t get any worse, Humberto Ramos is back, but not for the whole story, for some reason. Wayne Faucher and Studio F hang in there, as always. Peter and Mary Jane are in the park somewhere, and he\u2019s got his face down on the ground looking at ants. She\u2019s mad at him and won\u2019t say why, so he assumes it\u2019s \u201cthat time of the month,\u201d because our man Peter has been replaced with the lead from a terrible sitcom. He finally figures out it\u2019s because that weird lady kissed him. Also, it\u2019s implied at least some time has passed, so plenty of time for Spidey to go to the mansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Somehow, Ramos has gotten worse since last time. Maybe this was a rush job. There were literally teenagers doodling on their math tests drawing better than this. Why has MJ suddenly stopped being mad? And then the page turn is Spider-Man swinging around. This comic\u2019s barely started and it sucks. He\u2019s swinging around thinking he lied to MJ (I mean, all that stuff about the Queen being ugly and whatnot is pretty easily disproved by reviewing the footage, for starters). He can\u2019t get her off his mind, but also doesn\u2019t want to give in to whatever she\u2019s programmed into him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s really insane, when you think about it. How Jenkins was hailed as a huge improvement when he came on PPSM. How JMS was similarly a relief on ASM. How both of them have just taken a nosedive at the exact same time. Meanwhile, the Queen (Is that her supername? \u201cThe Queen?\u201d That sucks) is getting her hair done, also, and we\u2019re told she gets a beehive, get it, but Ramos doesn\u2019t get it, and doesn\u2019t draw a beehive. 0\/10. She tells her drones how much she hates people as they descend into some kind of underground lair in the subway. Elsewhere\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m with unnamed back-of-a-guy up there, what\u2019s the point of this briefing if he won\u2019t tell them what the threat is or how to deal with it? That\u2019s stupid. Like this comic book. How does Nick seem to know more than Cap and less than Cap about the Queen on the same page? There\u2019s absolutely no way Cap would know more about this than Nick. Ugh. Well, wherever Peter lives now, he wakes up from a nightmare about the Queen chasing him through tunnels and making blood pour out of his face. He looks out the window and Barker the dog bark-ers at him. Remember the dog? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jenkins has somehow gone from writing months and months of sentimental treacle about that lovable ol\u2019 sweetheart Peter Parker to writing the meanest, dumbest Peter since Len Wein. It almost reads like editorial told him to make this book edgier or something. Well, it\u2019s time for the Queen\u2019s origin\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cap was 100% in the ice before the bomb was tested, and why did it give this woman insect powers? Why did this get published? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whatever. We go back to Peter\u2019s, where MJ is getting home, and she has a new hairstyle and also a new hair COLOR, for some reason, such that I wondered if she was Caryn at first. Good job, everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This story only gets worse from here! Yay, me! It was so smart to decide to read all these comics again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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