{"id":29715,"date":"2025-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=29715"},"modified":"2024-02-21T19:13:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T23:13:33","slug":"fnsm-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/11\/19\/fnsm-15\/","title":{"rendered":"FNSM 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This month we open on a 2-page flashback showing us how Adrian Toomes had an older brother who raised him like a father, but was in a motorcycle accident that left him in a wheelchair, and he\u2019s demanding Adrian kill him. He talks at length about how he\u2019d be dead if they were animals, that he\u2019s weak now, that Adrian is also weak, and he should show some backbone, like an animal. So, you know, that sucks. And is the rationale for his all-new, never before mentioned obsession with strength and weakness, and his all-new, never before mentioned obsession with being an animal, not a person. A load of crap. Whoever he\u2019s working with has him staking out Deb Whitman\u2019s book signing, but he knows Spider-Man will sense him there and doesn\u2019t hang around long. He also insists on being called \u201cVulture,\u201d not \u201cAdrian,\u201d on account of his awkwardly retconned new personality. Eaton is also drawing him built like a bodybuilder and like 30 years younger, but I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s part of the retcon or just bad drawing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When people do a gag like this, I can\u2019t help but think \u201cThat dog would have a web trailing off of it.\u201d It doesn\u2019t work. Why do so many people insist on giving Peter a mullet? It\u2019s 2006. Whatever, who cares, let\u2019s get to the thing that is hopefully going to be interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A very typically terrible Peter David joke to start, great. My patience is gone. There is no reason these 2 should know each other, and also Betty\u2019s been a reporter for 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See, this stuff interests me. Exploring the supporting cast over the years and their reaction to finding out Peter is Spider-Man. Instead of cramming a bunch of pointless and frankly impossible Spider-Man content into the Civil War timeline, the ancillary titles could\u2019ve made this their entire mission. The dozens and dozens of people whose lives were enriched or damaged by Spider-Man and\/or Peter finding out his secret could\u2019ve filled books with interesting material for longer than Civil War ran if they wanted. Would they have seemed irrelevant to the main story? Probably. But guess what: So is this! What does Phil Chang think? Randy Robertson? Can we find out for sure whether Joe Robertson had it figured out all along? What about MJ\u2019s Aunt Anna, what does Spider-Man\u2019s mother-in-law think? Billy Walters, Arthur Stacy and his kids, Professor Sloane, etc etc etc. I\u2019m way more interested in that than this Vulture garbage. Well, anyway, Flash is at school, trying to get Miss Arrow to go out with him. Then he finds out about Deb\u2019s book signing and decides to go give her a piece of his mind, and Miss Arrow eats a spider. Ok. Then THIS happens:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why did this happen? What in the world? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don\u2019t think Deb knows Flash, either. She was so segregated from Peter\u2019s older cast. But look at this! Betty & Flash! Unlike Paul Jenkins, Peter David remembers Betty exists!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man, Jenkins not using Betty during his coma crap was just so egregiously wrong. Using Liz for no reason. Man. Vulture smashes in, Flash punches him and gets thrown across the room, Vultch decides to kidnap Deb, and then he gets shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hey, I think David even remembered the random 5 minutes Betty was a gun totin\u2019 vigilante in Web 91<\/a> & 92<\/a>! He and I may be the only ones.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eaton\u2019s Spider-Man is very \u201cJoe Bennett after he got good,\u201d which makes it seem pretty dated in 2006, but at least it\u2019s competent. Well, they have a pretty typical Vulture fight except for him nattering about weakness and stuff, during which he confirms he\u2019s working for Uncle Sam (Despite clearly not being a Thunderbolt, which is messy and stupid), until he gets Spider-Man with his claws, which were coated in \u201ca powerful hallucinogen.\u201d Oh, great. A Vulture story that\u2019s also a Kraven story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, I guess maybe it\u2019s not. Why a hallucinogen? It\u2019s not often we end on both the hero and the villain falling to their deaths independently. Thrilling. I\u2019m sure they both die next issue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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