{"id":28451,"date":"2025-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=28451"},"modified":"2024-02-21T19:20:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T23:20:45","slug":"usm-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/09\/02\/usm-74\/","title":{"rendered":"USM 074"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A cover that could remind one of Bagley\u2019s cover to ASM 373<\/a>, if one had a truly absurd memory for Spider-Man images. Well, now that we\u2019ve gotten Harry recapped, we can pick up with the whole \u201cPeter learns his semi-friend was dating his girl before him\u201d bombshell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Things are getting weird. We are then abruptly in class tomorrow, where a teacher who looks like Nick Katzenberg tells the kids to take the rest of the class to study silently. It must be said, Peter\u2019s class has a completely impossible to follow procession of teachers. It\u2019s only been 9 months since the spider bite, and yet it feels like no teacher has appeared in 2 consecutive stories. That one lady with the superhero essay assignment even got redesigned between issues. In a book so carefully considered, it almost feels like they\u2019re daring you to notice. At any rate, Peter\u2019s giving MJ the cold shoulder, so she writes him a note, like they didn\u2019t learn their lesson about this sort of thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dang, man, ouch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speaking of ouch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not a happy time for these two. Peter\u2019s really coming apart at the seams post-Gwen. Which, as I alluded to at the time, makes sense, and also doesn\u2019t make for the most enjoyable comics. Later, MJ is walking out of school, almost in a daze, when Harry approaches her. She wants to know why he told Peter about them. He says he assumed Peter already knew, and he brought it up as a joke. MJ says she would like to hear this joke. Harry seems to be genuinely contrite and apologizes, and MJ worries Peter just broke up with her without saying the actual words. Harry says Peter\u2019s not the same, not happy, since Gwen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s interesting to me, in hindsight, that Bendis is doing the Peter-MJ-Harry bits of Spider-Man 3 better than it did years before it came out. When Spider-Man 2 was still new, even. Well, in the city, some guys are roughing up a hot dog vendor, and Spider-Man comes crashing in, ranting about how people make him sick, and he smashes a regular ol\u2019 guy right through a car windshield face first. One of his cohorts says he\u2019s not moving, and Spider-Man suddenly realizes how badly he just screwed up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Really going through it. A chastened Peter returns to his brand-new house, and Aunt May says MJ came by. He rather comically asks \u201cHow does she know where we live?\u201d before May reminds him they moved 2 whole blocks. MJ told her they were having a big fight, and it was her fault. She also says she had MJ help her unpack, that she took advantage of MJ\u2019s guilt, which reminds us of the psychiatrist issue. Peter is clearly hurting, and May hugs him, saying he\u2019s a special boy, which he disagrees with. She also says Harry called, and those Osborns are trouble (MJ knowing the new address is way easier to parse than Harry knowing their phone number). Then the phone rings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uh-oh. Doesn\u2019t sound like good things coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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