{"id":29333,"date":"2025-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=29333"},"modified":"2024-02-18T17:44:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T21:44:40","slug":"ssm-v2-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/10\/31\/ssm-v2-29\/","title":{"rendered":"SSM V2 29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ASM gets the Civil War branding, but the other 2 titles have to settle for this. A visible note that they don\u2019t really count (But they sorta do, so please buy them, anyway!). I certainly treated them as such at the time. But, same as with the 7 months preceding Civil War, the little gaps in the collection were starting to look kind of silly after all the other godawful crap I bought on purpose. So here we are. Never seen this. Other comics would get non-Civil-War-but-kinda branding as well, like a \u201cCasualties of War\u201d banner and things like that. Especially once the main title started getting later and later, they had to churn out product. I really don\u2019t know how or even if these other 2 books can make sense in the larger story, but whatever they are, there\u2019s 7 more issues of Spider-Man, 4 of this book and 3 of FNSM, before we continue the main story. Messy! Shades of the original symbiote story, in my mind. And just like back then, I\u2019ve not read the 2 less important books. Let\u2019s see what we\u2019re in for.  We open where you\u2019d expect, on a little league game. The Awesome Androids vs. the Black Bolts, which is just silly enough that I love it. Mark Raxton is there, and sitting next to him, the Chameleon. Chammy is trying to force Mark into something supervillain-y, and Mark is not interested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weeeeeeird lookin’ face on Chameleon. The Deadly Foes of Peter Parker is a good story title for this time period. Peter noting how weird it is that both Marvel and DC have Scarecrows is also fun. Is this going to be fun? They fight as they fall, then Spider-Man swings them through a window, all while his narration explains Civil War if you haven\u2019t seen it. Then the Green Goblin shows up, but Peter knows it\u2019s an illusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, hold on. I\u2019m no expert on Scarecrow, but I\u2019ve never seen him have a fear power, like DC\u2019s does. I\u2019ve seen him running around with a pitchfork and a small army of crows that do his bidding. And he\u2019s a contortionist who can escape from anything. When did he get fear power? In 1993, in Ghost Rider. Ok. Why would you make him MORE like the more famous rival character with the same name? Also, unimportant, but when he appeared in JM DeMatteis\u2019 Captain America in the 80s, which is the only place I ever saw him besides UTS 21<\/a> & 22<\/a>, he got saddled with an abusive childhood, like every DeMatteis villain. So stupid. Anyway, Spider-Man\u2019s new suit neutralized the fear thing, so he\u2019s fine. Then Will O\u2019 The Wisp shows up! Man, we\u2019re scraping the bottom of the barrel, here. Despite him always being an anti-hero or just hero, and despite the fact he\u2019s not appeared in anything to change that since we last saw him in TAC 236<\/a>, he\u2019s now a villain, like Coldheart. Terrible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Those are sure some fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok! We see him call MJ and ask her to go home, saying it\u2019s not safe out. He also says all the proceeding happened \u201cin broad daylight,\u201d which seems\u2026 not true. She\u2019s not gonna leave her play for that, tho, and she hangs up. Her coworkers are star struck that she\u2019s married to Spider-Man, and then\u2026 and then Swarm attacks the theater. Swarm! Just a procession of the worst villains ever. But, we cut to someone smashing a TV showing Peter\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A BONE TIRED subplot. Let Felicia live! Well, Peters gone to see Madame Web, hoping her powers can help him for a change, but she\u2019s been having visions of \u201cstorms of fire and hell.. Rivers of hate and damnation..\u201d rather than, like, anything that\u2019s going to happen in these comics. While that pointlessness is going on, Liz Allan is looking through a photo album (And Aguirre-Sacasa spells it \u201cAllen,\u201d like Bendis!), remembering going to high school with Harry Osborn, because I guess not one person who\u2019s written Spider-Man in the last 5 years has actually read the 60s comics? She thinks, \u201cOh, Peter. All the DEATH you brought into our lives\u2026\u201d That seems unfair. Then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok! No idea what\u2019s going on. Also this thing were Molten Man can turn this fire thing on is not something I ever saw before. I guess no one cares about continuity, tho, so it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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