{"id":28723,"date":"2025-09-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=28723"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:34:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:34:45","slug":"asm-525","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/09\/20\/asm-525\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 525"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If I was a writer, and I got to see my words first rendered beautifully by Mike Weiringo, then immediately turned to crap by \u201cPat Lee,\u201d or whoever it was, and then turned to squiggly mush by Mike Deodato\u2026 I might quit comics. Whiplash. Look, guys, Peter\u2019s upset Uncle Ben is dead! We\u2019re really breaking new ground here. At least the red color feels more appropriate to this drawing. It\u2019s the usual ASM art gang for Mike Deodato, Jr., Joe Pimentel and Matt Milla, and we begin with a really cheery flashback to young Aunt May & Uncle Ben dealing with the decision to take May\u2019s mother off life support. Then her mother wakes up and starts strangling her, offended that she\u2019s afraid of death, demanding that she fight. I mean, that\u2019s weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean\u2026 ok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guys, we\u2019re having fun. May, to her credit, just asks him what\u2019s wrong, knowing immediately it\u2019s not about whatever\u2019s going on, and he tells her to trust him and go to sleep. MJ shrugs at her, and May continues to the kitchen, telling the Ben in her head she does trust Peter, despite him lying to her all these years. Jarvis is not in the kitchen, and that reminds her to tell the Ben in her head about him. She begins talking out loud, saying she really likes him, and there\u2019s been no one since Ben. NO ONE SINCE BEN. JUSTICE FOR NATHAN LUBENSKY!!!! Jeeeeeez, man, I liked that guy a lot, and he gets no respect! Willie Lumpkin, ok, that didn\u2019t ever seem serious (Did that ever officially end, or is it one of those things that just disappeared due to clone crap? I can\u2019t remember). But Nathan! Put some respect on his name!! She says there\u2019s been no one since Ben unless you count Otto Octavius, and she doesn\u2019t know what she was thinking. Nathan was her man the last time PETER DAVID was writing Spider-Man! JUSTICE FOR NATHAN! Well, anyway, someone catches May in her borderline worrisome outloud chat with the Force ghost of a young Ben Parker, and given the topic, you might expect it to be Jarvis, so something cute can happen, but\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m tired of this dork. Also, his beard looks hastily and poorly slapped on after the fact in every panel. I suppose it could be a symptom of Deodato tracing some clean shaven celeb, but it looks more like he didn\u2019t know this guy has a beard. Suddenly, on the next page, there is a transition so jarring it feels like pages are missing. Spider-Man is being thrown into a fire escape, then falling to the ground in a heap in an alleyway. And this was done to him by\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What even happened in that last panel?? Where is this happening? Extremely jarring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That is a really bad voice for Wolverine, wow. Back at Avengers Tower, Tommy Tracer is explaining to May that he\u2019s the God of Machines as she makes him a sandwich. She believes this about as much as anyone would, but he keeps on yammering about them praying to him and such, then wants to talk to her about disconnecting her mom from life support, saying he heard her yelling about that in her room earlier. Which makes zero sense, but this is the Other, nothing is making sense and it\u2019s gonna stay that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man, who is being traced for Aunt May? I don\u2019t know, and I only have 3 more issues to figure it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This comic sucks, man. Spider-Man, randomly in some alley, gets told to go home by Wolverine, who happens to know what alley he\u2019s in, and isn\u2019t that nice, since the bad guy is hanging out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Everything Spider-Man is describing presumably happened last issue, but since we frustratingly kept 98% of that relegated to partially seen and described events on a TV in the background, we don\u2019t really know what\u2019s going on. I mean, this is pretty inept. Peter David is a long term pro. Things get even sillier as Spidey lunges at doofus here, and he\u2026 snakes some tendrils out of his fingertips into Spider-Man\u2019s side and then learns his diagnosis. This guy\u2019s powers are absurd. He gets offended that someone in Spider-Man\u2019s condition is even fighting him. Spidey snaps. Very Peter David Spider-Man of him. Shades of the Death of Jean DeWolff\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unsurprisingly, Tracer will never be seen again. What a pointless first round of this event. Well, this thing\u2019s already dreadful and bloated, and next issue, Reggie Hudlin takes over, so it\u2019s gonna get worse. But how much worse? There\u2019s one thing I know is coming in the next MKSM that defies belief\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I was a writer, and I got to see my words first rendered beautifully by Mike Weiringo, then immediately turned to crap by \u201cPat Lee,\u201d or whoever it was, and then…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864],"tags":[1863,35,350,950,21,1968,1686,1984,333,2,300],"class_list":["post-28723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","tag-amazing-spider-man-vol-2","tag-aunt-may","tag-jarvis","tag-joe-pimentel","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-matt-milla","tag-mike-deodato-jr","tag-morlun","tag-peter-david","tag-spider-man","tag-wolverine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28724,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28723\/revisions\/28724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}