{"id":30279,"date":"2025-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=30279"},"modified":"2024-03-04T19:26:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T23:26:48","slug":"fnsm-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/12\/12\/fnsm-22\/","title":{"rendered":"FNSM 22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019m sure all this will wrap in a very satisfying way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I just enjoy seeing the Robertsons again, really. The way the idea of a large cast went out of fashion in the 2000s really sucks. I get it, of course. Everything became way more character focused at the same time the stories got decompressed. If you did a typical Spider-Man plot form the 80s in the new style, you\u2019d go 2 issues without seeing Spider-Man as we checked in on everyone. But even so. So many great characters left to the margins, if not fully abandoned. This situation will sort of tip back and forth over the years, but the days of the large cast are mostly behind us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rather uncharitable, Randy! Elsewhere, stupid ol\u2019 Ero is still trying to jam eggs into Peter\u2019s mouth. And being all sassy and whatnot. The primordial bug monster from MKSM22 turning into this lady is so hard to swallow. How and why would it learn to act like a real person? Why did it choose straight blonde hair for its otherwise black appearance? Why is it sassy, beyond internalized racial stereotypes within a certain writer? It just isn\u2019t good in any way. Anyway, Flash says to do him instead, and she rejects that with a flourish of normal human slang that, like, how does she know it? Then someone shoots the egg. Who in this book has a weird and obscure and recently refreshed history as a gun owner?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good grief, what\u2019s Betty packing, a proton cannon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why is she in some kind of paramilitary getup!? Who IS Betty Brant anymore!? That lil rifle did all that to whatshername???<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am\u2026 so unhappy right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spare me your awful, instantly dated Whedonisms, David. Spider-Man goes after Ero, a protesting Betty goes after Spider-Man. Flash is left glue to the ceiling as Komedy Business. And I would just like to remind the court that Aunt May is on the brink of death. Possibly in the 2nd hospital by now? I mean, who knows? But her situation is untenable, and we\u2019re somehow doing this! Ero is yelling at the pursuing Spider-Man about how she can never reproduce and he ruined everything blah blah blah. He webs her foot, which\u2026 I\u2019m really not sure how a zillion spiders turn into a physical human body, but it seems like a web wouldn\u2019t be such an issue. She begins\u2026 traveling by giant web parachute\u2026 And somehow has the momentum\u2026 You know, floating on a breeze in a giant parachute\u2026 the rip Spider-Man\u2019s sticking feet loose from a rooftop. This comic sucks so very badly. Spider-Man is quippin up a storm like he hasn\u2019t a care in the world, and also saying \u201cEver since Fox canceled \u2018DRIVE,\u2019 it\u2019s been one piece of bad luck after another.\u201d I had to look this up. Drive was a 2007 TV show that lasted 4 entire episodes from one of the producers of Joss Whedon\u2019s show Firefly. Sigh. What a stupid reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man\u2019s fightin\u2019 mad now, so he inexplicably swings up onto her back somehow in a really baffling Spidey-in-motion panel, produces his stupid, stupid stingers, and slices her parachute loose. They\u2019re STINGERS, not swords. They have a pointy end, not a sharp blade edge. Whatever, who cares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am so over this. If they\u2019re opposite sides of some mystical animal totem coin, why is she bird food and he\u2019s not? Why is she made of spiders and he\u2019s not? Why did I buy all these terrible comics?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spoilers: He will not find a way to \u201ctake them down.\u201d \u201cThey\u201d don\u2019t even exist, I don\u2019t think, and I assure you, when the deck is cleared for new creative teams, no one\u2019s picking this thread up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hey, Peter, remember how you\u2019re Aunt\u2019s on the brink of death? No? I guess not. I do choose to believe FNSM\u2019s participation in Back In Black take place\u2026 somehow\u2026 in the first 2 issues of ASM. When things are slightly less dire. He seems more upset in SSM. No one\u2019s gonna help me here, I gotta make up the reading order as I go. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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