{"id":30049,"date":"2025-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=30049"},"modified":"2024-02-27T18:45:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T22:45:58","slug":"asm-541","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/12\/04\/asm-541\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 541"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tellin\u2019 ya, that scratchy, raw look is just cool. This one almost has a Ted McKeever vibe. This month, we pick up just where we left off, with Kingpin saying he doesn\u2019t die, he has people to do that for him. That him dying would go against the laws of nature. Peter says he\u2019s already broken just about every law there is, so what\u2019s one more? Then he rips the web off the goon\u2019s face to interrogate him. The goon says Kingpin wanted Martino out of the way because \u201che knew something nobody else knows.\u201d What was in the trunk in Pulp Fiction?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Can\u2019t fight Spider-Man in his prison jumpsuit. That\u2019s for fighting Daredevil right now.Or fighting alongside him, as the circumstances dictate. The \u201cDaredevil in prison\u201d story was pretty wild. Also by Ed Brubaker, with art by Michael Lark. Bru & Lark weren\u2019t quite Bendis & Maleev, but they were close, it was a great run. WHILE Brubaker and Epting were doing Cap, too. It\u2019s wild how many writers at Marvel had concurrent instant-classic runs in this period. Bendis was riding the wave of DD, USM and New Avengers at the same time for a while there! Brubaker, Matt Fraction & David Aja are just starting the best run of Iron Fist of all time as Brubaker is doing one of the best Cap runs and one of the best DD runs. Just crazy. Too bad none of those guys was on ASM, where Spider-Man is spending 3 whole pages scaring that guy he kidnapped and then not killing him or accomplishing anything at the end of the scene. Then he\u2019s back at the hospital, where MJ closes the curtain around May\u2019s bed to let them have some privacy with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Describing yourself\u2026 to your wife\u2026 as someone with nothing left to lose\u2026 is VERY CLASSY. Want to see something hilarious?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s Reilly now! They corrected it mid-story! That\u2019s even worse somehow! I wonder if they fixed it in the trade throughout. They sure should have. \u201cFitzgerald.\u201d Well, since the real objective of this story is just keeping the book on the stands until the next one, we get several pages of Spider-Man traveling to the prison and entering it, mixed with the inmates being surprised when all the lights come on and their cells open, mixed with Kingpin getting dressed like the hero in an 80s action movie. Alright, that killed 5 pages, so\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man: No stranger to prison riots. Well, next time in part 4 of 5, the showdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tellin\u2019 ya, that scratchy, raw look is just cool. This one almost has a Ted McKeever vibe. This month, we pick up just where we left off, with Kingpin saying he doesn\u2019t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864],"tags":[1863,35,1573,1981,100,21,1968,660],"class_list":["post-30049","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30049","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=30049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30050,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30049\/revisions\/30050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}