{"id":29781,"date":"2025-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=29781"},"modified":"2024-02-24T19:18:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T23:18:51","slug":"ssm-v2-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/11\/21\/ssm-v2-32\/","title":{"rendered":"SSM V2 32"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, at least that FNSM story seemed to take place in something like only 24 hours. At least it wasn\u2019t jamming days into this crowded mess. What\u2019s SSM gonna do? While the cover correctly credits Sean Chen for this one, the interior still says Angel Medina is drawing, which is pretty rude to Sean. At least he got one of the credits. To open, we\u2019re told about a dream Mary Jane has been having since all this started, where she\u2019s in a coliseum, and in the stands\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wasn\u2019t gonna run this spread, but Hobgoblin rockin\u2019 out was too much not to include in this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Honestly, this is a pretty good nightmare for MJ, full points to Mr. Aguirre-Sacasa. Madame Web appears on the field alongside 2 freestanding doors, saying behind one is the man, the other, the spider, and she must choose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She thinks about how she\u2019s trying to look and dress plain, to blend in, not like when she was younger. She talks to Aunt May, both of them trying to make the other feel better, and then says she\u2019s going out for awhile. May makes her affirm that she\u2019ll be back. During this, Spider-Man is apparently fighting the Rhino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s like that Arthur meme. Ya know, in the superhero days, I thought sean Chen was kinda plain, kind of bland. And truth told, he still is, but now that comics are becoming less about fightin\u2019 and more about people talking (A trend that will continue), his way with facial expressions seems like a huge asset. And yet he never gets any bigger than he was in the late 90s. Curious. Spider-Man is still fighting Rhino, and MJ really wishes she had someone to talk to. She calls Sue Storm, picking up from what Sue said in ASM 533<\/a>, and they make plans. MJ goes by the theater she\u2019d been doing her play in and learns, to little surprise, that she\u2019s been replaced. They meet at Madame Tussaud\u2019s Wax Museum, which is weird, but weird in a useful way, and get lunch at the cafeteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At this stage in the game, I did NOT expect not only a reference to ASM 257<\/a>, but one with correct clothes, even, wow. Bravo, Sean Chen! Doesn\u2019t look like Peter\u2019s apartment, but I can let it ride.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And somewhere, a finger curls on a monkey\u2019s paw. I feel like I\u2019ve done that bit before. MJ flashes back to the famous end of ASM 122<\/a>, but from her perspective, the party girl choosing to stay with the man in searing pain and comfort him, and how the decision to stay is what made her realize she loved him. Very good work. Then she approaches their motel room, and thinks about her coliseum dream, and flashes back to her wedding and to Peter asking her & May\u2019s opinions about unmasking, and in her mind, when Madame Web asks her to choose, she says she already chose a long time ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, there\u2019s an unexpected last page! Dang, man, these guys understood the assignment! This is exactly the kind of thing these titles should\u2019ve done. Maybe not the last page, but I guess you want Spider-Man in your comic. But yeah, wow, I\u2019m very impressed. And now actually pretty jazzed to read the other two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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