{"id":27152,"date":"2025-06-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=27152"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:38:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:38:44","slug":"tac-v2-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/06\/14\/tac-v2-19\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC V2 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, like, with the \u201cprologue\u201d part, this is a 6-issue story. Pretty typical of its day, and most days to follow. So why does it have 3 different artists? That doesn\u2019t feel like it would\u2019ve happened on purpose. But we\u2019re joined this month by Paco Medina, one of the better guys, in my opinion, in the \u201cvaguely Ramos-ish mode\u201d cottage industry inexplicably happening at Marvel as the larger company house style becomes realism. Ramos, Herrara, Skottie Young, etc. Medina is in the ballpark, cartoony and exaggerated, but his figures are way more solid and his stuff looks a lot more intentional, and he\u2019ll get much better with time. To be fair, even Ramos gets a little better as he goes. He\u2019s at least stopped drawing people with gigantic, rectangular feet by this point. Medina is inked by Juan Vlasco, unseating Wayne Faucher for the first time on the secondary Spidey title in quite some time. This opens at some kind of rooftop function at Peter (And MJ\u2019s?) apartment (I still don\u2019t know if they live together in this title). She seems distracted, and Aunt May asks what\u2019s wrong. She says she\u2019s worried about Peter. Oh, NOW you\u2019re worried??\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He\u2019s looking great!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not Peter\u2019s best day. Elsewhere, Nick Fury and Cap spend a page reiterating that Queen has a stupid bomb and the US government made it. Nick demands to know why, even though he should know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You get that feeling, Nick, because nothing in these pages is not colossally stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Captain America was in the ice before the war ended! He was not there for this! Nick should be the one telling HIM this! Uggggghhhhh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Does Jenkins think Cap was out walking around when Kennedy died!? This is insane! I vividly remembered the Spider-Man parts of this story, but Cap being nothing but anachronisms and incorrect levels of security clearance while MJ is the worst partner anyone ever had, I guess I suppressed it all. Well, as all that stupid nonsense is happening, the Queen has found Spider-Man. She tells him he did this with her kiss, like he couldn\u2019t have figured that out, and demands he come out of the shadows and be with her. He doesn\u2019t want to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She spends a few pages smashing him into walls with her ill-defined powers and telling him he\u2019s in love with her before disappearing with him. And then the Human Torch shows up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We see Detective Garrett, in the background there, telling a coworker the mayor has told the cops to find Spidey and the Queen before the superheroes for \u201ca public relations coup.\u201d Whatever! Now we\u2019re at some kinda SHIELD war room, and they get a message from the Queen. Fury rushes everyone out of the room because this is \u201clevel 17 clearance,\u201d despite that not being a thing, and then the Queen\u2019s message turns out to be addressed to the people of New York, Boston, Montreal and Washington, so why\u2019s he acting like it\u2019s a secret? This comic sucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whatever. I don\u2019t even care. Elsewhere, the queen goes to some giant metal doors to check on the ostensible star of this comic\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I guess this is what Peter gets for not saving Tarantula when he turned into a spider in ASM 236<\/a>. Man, I miss those days. More and more with each post! Next time: the impossibly terrible conclusion. A conclusion that promises to change Spider-Man\u2026 for the worse\u2026 forever! And then is promptly swept under the rug and not referred to again\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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