{"id":2756,"date":"2020-01-08T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T20:43:16","slug":"tac-233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/01\/08\/tac-233\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 233"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alright, let\u2019s see how the TAC gang wraps this up. Sal Buscema only provides breakdowns this month, and Art Thibert & John Stansci team up on the finishes, and\u2026 you can really tell it\u2019s 2 different guys. We begin with Ben back at home, raging and whatnot.
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SHWIP SHWAP! He happens upon a mugging, and actually tries to help as a monster. He brutally attacks the comically large gaggle of goons (At least 6 of them) while the symbiote makes him imagine tearing them to bits.
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I\u2019m guessing that panel is 100% funnier than intended. To see the crazy difference in the two inkers, look at these two consecutive pages as we turn to Peter Parker\u2026
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I mean, that\u2019s crazy, right? Also crazy: that Multivex logo. Digital lettering is even more primitive than digital color at this point. Who\u2019s that mystery man? As mentioned previously, whoever he\u2019s supposed to be here, he\u2019s going to wind up being someone else by the time his identity is revealed. Awkward, awkward stuff is in the future. We check in with Jessica, failing to salvage any of her film from the Spider-Carnage attack, and then hop back to Ravencroft, where it\u2019s revealed Cletus Kassidy is dying because he\u2019s been separated from the symbiote. At this point, once those things bond, it\u2019s for life. Of course, in the future, they\u2019ll slap the Venom and Carnage symbiotes on all sorts of people, but right now, there are rules. Dr Kafka & Jameson continue to watch him freaking out, but then Spider-Carnage rolls up to the institute, so they have to deploy their defenses that never work on anyone. Guess what?
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Days without incident: 0. He easily eludes the defenders, barely avoids killing John, and tells him to back off. Security isn\u2019t going to listen to a monster\u2019s advice, so they gear up to head for Dr. Kafka\u2019s office, since that\u2019s where Jameson assumes he\u2019s going. He\u2019s got it wrong, though, as always. Spidey\u2019s trying to find Kassidy so he can learn how to control it. \u00a0This has been weird. Ben never even thought \u201cI should get rid of this thing.\u201d His first thought has been \u201cI can control this, sure.\u201d That\u2019s just ridiculous to me. At any rate\u2026
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So he\u2019s doing this so it can\u2019t bond with Kassidy again. I mean\u2026 this is not a good plan. Also: why\u2019d he allow them to come here, then? Kassidy begins luring the symbiote off of Ben, leading to this crazy page:
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But Spider-Man retains control. Jameson runs up, and Spidey says to lock him up so Carnage can never rejoin with Kassidy. Really? That\u2019s your plan? So they put him in a cell with the same microwave transmitters that were (not) containing Kassidy, and the microwaves begin to weaken the symbiote. It\u2019s eventually forced off of Spider-Man, so it slithers into the sink, and\u2026
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But\u2026 why did it leave? And if the answer is \u201cto abandon Kassidy for a stronger host,\u201d why did it come back? What sense does this make? Later, outside the gates of Ravencroft, Spider-Man & Jameson discuss what happened, and how they didn\u2019t know the symbiote could travel through the plumbing (I will show you a symbiote doing something way stupider and more improbable than that one day), each of them feeling like they failed, largely because they did.
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\u201cInstead of taking the symbiote to any number of super scientists to capture or destroy it, you brought it back here to give a serial killer superpowers again. Sounds like a win to me!\u201d What a dopey ending to this mostly dopey story. Next SSM begins a big 6-part story, but first\u2026 a very unusual detour.
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