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Still don\u2019t like the suit, but Garney draws such a good Spider-Man, I don\u2019t think anyone could do a better job selling it. Unfortunately for us, he doesn\u2019t draw this issue, or the next one. I guess they wanted him fresh for the big event. And he took the whole team with him. In their stead, we have Tyler Kirkham, Jay Leisten and John Starr. Kirkham came up through the stupid \u201cgirly mag version of Grim\u2019s Fairytales\u201d line of books from Zenoscope. Not really his fault he came from such an odious place, but he never seemed to find much purchase in the mainstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That footnote sending you to New Avengers: The Illuminati is worth mentioning. In that book (By Bendis & Maleev), we saw the Illuminati\u2019s first meeting, at Black Panther\u2019s home, wherein he told them it was a bad idea to make a secret superhero leader club and it would blow up in their faces, and refused to join. But they did it, anyway. And then, a month ago, the Hulk destroyed Las Vegas, and the Illuminati met, and decided to shoot him into space. Because his condition can\u2019t be cured and he\u2019ll always be a danger. Namor bitterly dissented, almost killing Tony, then stormed off, and the remaining members\u2026 did it, anyway. And then we see the meeting last night, wherein Tony shows everyone, even Namor, who he invited, the first draft of a Superhuman Registration Act, mandating that all powered people register with the government and become members of a powered SHIELD peace keeping force, or go to prison. Tony said this will pass, one way or another, and their only option is to embrace it, to try to control and contain it, rather than fight it. Only Reed agreed with him. Namor left them to their surface business, saying to never contact him again. Dr. Strange refused. Black Bolt refused despite not being a US citizen. And so, Reed and Tony were left holding the bag. And that\u2019s why we\u2019re approaching an event called \u201cCivil War.\u201d But that\u2019s not for another 2 months. First we gotta get through all the comics where Spider-Man was wearing this suit, but not yet in the event. Which, given the state of things, is a lot. And so, here we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wasn\u2019t reading Iron Man at this time. I\u2019d be curious to. What with him privately supporting and publicly condemning the Registration Act in 2 comics written by other people, I wonder what his actual minders were doing. Over a page of really dumb \u201ccomedy\u201d of 2 editors\u2019 notes arguing about registration, they arrive in Washington, and Peter checks out the new version of his suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So many things here. The suit turning invisible is stupid, and as far as I know, never used. The suit looking like other suits is, as far as I know, never used, but if it can do that, why not just make it the red & blues? And then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The suit has robot arms. 3 of them. Why not 4, for 8 limbs, like a spider? Joe Quesada said it was less predictable. It\u2019s stupid, is what it is. The movies rightly changed it to 4, although the number I would prefer is zero. Makes him look like Doc Ock. And I won\u2019t be the last person to notice that. As Tony & Peter head to the Senate, we see a guy in a very 90s power suit failing to get a bead on Tony and shoot him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I skipped these issues when they came out, largely because I\u2019d already dropped ASM and I didn\u2019t like that new suit, but also, this is filler. Everyone knows the act is going to pass, the press for Civil War was endless. It starts in 2 months, anyone who buys comics knows it\u2019s coming. And I have to listen to this debate? A lot of filler in the Spider-Man world lately. And more to come. But as long as we\u2019re here\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think the Senator\u2019s point on the page ruins the entire thing. He\u2019s 100% right. 100%. Registration makes sense if you\u2019re approaching the concept of super people from a real world perspective. No one should have to live next door to a Hulk without knowing it, and Hulk shouldn\u2019t be able to just walk away when he destroys an entire town. In the world of the Marvel Universe, it\u2019s the only rational choice. But in the real world, no one reading comics would actually want the heroes to be registered, it would break too many things. So you create a no-win situation from out of nowhere. They try to balance this, to give the anti-registration side some leverage, but tacking on the nonsense about literally anyone with powers being forced to become a solider or go to prison. That\u2019s bonkers, that\u2019s obviously bad. But that\u2019s not registration, that\u2019s what comes after. Registration is categorically a reasonable idea, and the entire, endless Civil War story is about trying to act like there\u2019s 2 sides to the debate. Great stuff. JMS tries to have Peter give a response:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Senator you\u2019re supposed to be rooting against here nails it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These 2 guys pretending not to be superheroes talking about this is very funny, but obviously not meant to be. Tony tells Peter he gave them way too much to use against them, but also that he spoke truth to power, and that\u2019s good of him. Then Peter calls MJ for some comfort and is targeted by power suit guy, but then they go back in for more. We jump ahead 4 hours, to Tony pointing out that prohibition only created organized crime, and if you make powered people criminals, you don\u2019t know where that will lead, and then they\u2019re out of there. As they head to the car, Peter saves Tony from getting shot. Tony recognizes power suit guy as his old foe, Titanium Man, but I sure didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Army troops show up, and rather absurdly decide the two guys fighting are working together, real J. Jonah Jameson hours, and start shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But won\u2019t last past last issue!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still don\u2019t like the suit, but Garney draws such a good Spider-Man, I don\u2019t think anyone could do a better job selling it. Unfortunately for us, he doesn\u2019t draw this issue, or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864],"tags":[1863,64,1981,2258,2275,21,2,2276,2274],"class_list":["post-29130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","tag-amazing-spider-man-vol-2","tag-iron-man","tag-j-michael-straczynski","tag-jay-leisten","tag-john-starr","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-spider-man","tag-titanium-man","tag-tyler-kirkham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29130","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=29130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29131,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29130\/revisions\/29131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}