{"id":30038,"date":"2025-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=30038"},"modified":"2024-02-27T18:42:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T22:42:56","slug":"asm-540","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/12\/03\/asm-540\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 540"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These covers shot directly from Garney\u2019s pencils look very cool. The raw feeling is appropriate to the subject matter, but also just looks good. If only the comic itself was good. Well, Aunt May\u2019s in the ICU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Havin\u2019 fun! There follows 4 pages of Spider-Man shaking down the guys who sell the fancy scopes, and of course the last one is the one he needed, but he\u2019s gotta scare the bejeezus out of him to get anything. He\u2019s doing the Daredevil playbook, really. Daredevil beating up everyone in a seedy bar to get information is a well-worn cliche at this point. Pretty good argument for registration, a guy routinely assaulting everyone in a business on the hopes that one of them knows something, but I digress! Spider-Man now knows May was shot by a \u201cJake Martino,\u201d a freelance hitman who takes \u201cjobs nobody wanted,\u201d which is such a funny image. \u201cI only do the jobs that suck! I hate my life!\u201d Spidey infers this means someone hired him, and decided to \u201ccut through the red tape.\u201d We see some cops hassling a homeless guy for peeing in an alley (Protecting and serving!) and then they notice\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What about his homeboy Lamont? Whither Lamont? Abandoned and forgotten like so many cop characters. Somebody should do a story where they all have a support group. Spidey goes to Martino\u2019s place to find it cleaned out, and is tipped by the landlord, pro-Cap in the recent events, that 2 other guys came \u2018round looking for him, too. Probably working for his employer, Spider-Man guesses, but that doesn\u2019t help him find the guy. He assumes Martino is trying to skip town, and plays a hunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not since Rick Leonardi has the black suit looked so good. If only the comic was good. Spider-Man beats and threatens and so on\u2019s this guy, saying he\u2019s going to kill Martino after he tells him who ordered the hit, and how fast that goes is up to him, but then he senses trouble and dodges, allowing a 2nd person to take bullets for him in 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If he didn\u2019t kill Norman Osborn for Gwen and for his own unborn child, he\u2019s not killing anybody, man. Well, naturally, in a city full of hospitals, Martino is rushed to the one Aunt May is in, so Peter can go check with MJ, who says May\u2019s not going to make it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You ever try to cut a symmetry? It\u2019s challenging!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Think he\u2019s gonna kill Fisk? It\u2019d be pretty shocking, but I suspect we\u2019re long past the point you\u2019d have to run that through the Daredevil editor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These covers shot directly from Garney\u2019s pencils look very cool. The raw feeling is appropriate to the subject matter, but also just looks good. If only the comic itself was good. Well,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864],"tags":[1863,35,1573,1981,100,21,1968,660,2],"class_list":["post-30038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","tag-amazing-spider-man-vol-2","tag-aunt-may","tag-bill-reinhold","tag-j-michael-straczynski","tag-kingpin","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-matt-milla","tag-ron-garney","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30038","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=30038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30048,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30038\/revisions\/30048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}