{"id":28244,"date":"2025-08-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=28244"},"modified":"2024-02-21T19:21:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T23:21:29","slug":"usm-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/08\/24\/usm-66\/","title":{"rendered":"USM 066"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wolverine. As this hit stands, we were 2 months out from New Avengers 1, but everyone knew it was coming, so knowing Wolverine and Spider-Man would be defying convention by joining the Avengers, these 2 meeting up again carried a bit of an extra heft. Don\u2019t think anyone really knew what would happen, tho\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bagley\u2019s Bendis likeness\u2026 not so good. Also it looks unnervingly like Greg Land drew it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FRIDAY, is it? Yeah, they\u2019re moving, I guess. You know, I did not remember that. Our strangely behaving hero goes down to his lab and literally sniffs around, clearly not sure what\u2019s going on, when MJ shows up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do you have it, dear reader? Do you know what\u2019s happening?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, I don\u2019t claim to know what Bendis was thinking or anything, but I know 2 things for sure: 1. Bendis was a big fan of the movie Mean Girls. 2. The Lindsey Lohan\/Jamie Lee Curtis Freaky Friday came out in 2003, no more than a year before this comic. And thus, I\u2019m pretty sure Bendis watched it, and I\u2019m pretty sure we have it to thank for this. Back at the Parker home, Wolverine-as-Peter fumbles through a conversation with MJ wherein he just won\u2019t answer any questions until he gets her to ask if he wants his Spider-Man suit, which is still at her house, and he says yes, go get that, and also tells her she\u2019ll understand when she\u2019s older that high school is a waste of time. Then Aunt May yells down that someone\u2019s calling from the Bugle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In an increasingly frantic call, Peter begs Logan to go to school for him, because he\u2019s missed too many days already this year, as Logan commits more social blunders with May. Peter gets so worked up he accidentally cuts the tip of Logan\u2019s finger off, but it grows back. Logan decides to go to school, but he can\u2019t figure out how to let go of the phone due to Peter\u2019s sticking power. Truly, we\u2019re in a wacky place. This is the kind of tonal whiplash JM DeMatteis seemed to love. Later, at school Logan is ogling cheerleaders and manages to offend MJ pretty immediately. She shoves a backpack with his spider suit at him and storms off, but Logan has no intention of putting that on. Then he get caught wandering around during class by a security guard, and tries to escape by scaling a wall, but falls off of it, KO\u2019ing said guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I feel like they\u2019re really overselling the 3 times these 2 have met. Granted one of those times did result in unmarked vans full of killers outside Aunt May\u2019s house, but even so, it\u2019s not like they bump into each other once a week. Logan goes to class, where he is not allowed to immediately turn around and go to the bathroom. Then Flash starts messing with him, and he gets a Wolverine death stare that gives him pause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, more hijinks next issue. What could be behind these 2 Freaky Friday-ing? How did it happen? I don\u2019t even remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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