{"id":30175,"date":"2025-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=30175"},"modified":"2024-03-04T19:19:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T23:19:41","slug":"fnsm-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/12\/08\/fnsm-18\/","title":{"rendered":"FNSM 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This month, we open with a flashback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok, whatever. Meanwhile, at the 13th Police Precinct, Jamie Madrox has shown up, with his partner, \u201cAgent Sands,\u201d to ask about Floyd Baker. Does Peter even know Jamie Madrox? Like, at all? Does he know Madrox was investigating the Vulture in FNSM 16<\/a>? Does he know how Madrox dresses right now? What\u2026 is going on? Well, anyway, he informs the cop he\u2019s talking to that Ben Parker died years ago, so the guy Floyd Baker is meant to have killed couldn\u2019t have been him. He\u2019s hoping Baker said something under interrogation that could provide a clue as to what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Sandman blows their cover, they\u2019re informed Floyd has been \u201cfast-tracked for the dirt nap\u201d (Is Mickey Spillane alive and ghostwriting this book?), and he\u2019ll be executed in 2 days. Then Spider-Man\u2019s image inducer shuts down. The cop yells that Spider-Man is here, and there\u2019s a big standoff. Spidey convinces Sandy not to kill the cop, and they escape, and there is much Komedy Business along the way. Aunt May is dying, you know. Meanwhile, big news from the cop out department:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I just like these 2 together. After all their history. Peter David hasn\u2019t exactly been thrilling me on this title, but I like him doing this. Betty asks about \u201cMs. Arrow.\u201d Flash says he asked her out a few times, but she said no. Betty notes how much Ms. Arrow hated her in FNSM 16, but Flash doesn\u2019t care about Arrow, he\u2019s into Betty now. Elsewhere, Spider-Man and Sandman repeat their argument about how Sandy\u2019s dad is \u201cnot Spider-Man\u2019s problem,\u201d and then get back to Spider-Man helping him, anyway. They decide to go make sure the real Uncle Ben is where Peter left him. Very recently, as it turns out, but continuity is clearly not a priority right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are Betty and Deb friends now? I think it would be fun if Deb rejoined the cast, but it is not to be. She never appears in a comic again as of this writing. Anyway, Betty:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So Betty runs out and tells everyone there\u2019s \u201cmaybe a thousand spiders\u201d in the bathroom, and then she, Flash and the manager go in there, but instead of spiders, they find the equipment for using cocaine. Why\u2026 is Ms. Arrow so worried about Betty? Betty doesn\u2019t affect whatever her dumb plans for Spider-Man must be. The manager says if she\u2019ll leave now, they won\u2019t press charges, and Ms. Arrow watches them go, smiling her bad guy smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See, I coulda done with a lot more of this. Peter unmasks, there\u2019s so many people who could\u2019ve reacted, and we didn\u2019t really check in with any of them. JJJ. Liz. Flash and Betty. Some angry villains. Deb of all people. I would\u2019ve bought a one-shot that was just reporters interviewing a ton of old cast members about Peter unmasking, for real. Where\u2019s good ol\u2019 Steve Hopkins, and what does he think? Anyway. If the possibly dead homeless Uncle Ben was this Uncle Ben, wouldn\u2019t Spider-Man have found the grave open in Fallen Son? I can forgive him not seeing the singe marks on a dark rainy night, but\u2026continuity is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man\u2019s new, even more magical Spider Sense, which JMS seemed to abandon the second he introduced it, is dumb. Not as dumb as what they\u2019ve done with Miles Morales\u2019 in my present, tho, I\u2019ll tell you that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are we gonna wrap the alternate Uncle Ben story next month? Only got 6 issues left, David better start winding down. I guess I\u2019ll find out\u2026 next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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