{"id":30315,"date":"2025-12-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=30315"},"modified":"2024-03-05T18:37:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T22:37:13","slug":"ssm-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/12\/17\/ssm-38\/","title":{"rendered":"SSM 38"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last month went by with no issue of SSM on the stands. It\u2019s epidemic. I suppose an Eddie Brock appearance during the Black Suit Sales Event at your local Ford dealer isn\u2019t too surprising. But he\u2019s not Venom anymore, so what\u2019s the Spider-Man part of this? Also, I haven\u2019t read it, but I know one thing for sure: Eddie doesn\u2019t die. Along for the ride on this 2-parter is the great Lee Weeks! He just keeps popping up. He provides just breakdowns for this one, with finishes by Stefano Gaudino and colors by Matt Milla. I always think \u201cbreakdowns\u201d is so interesting. It\u2019s only supposed to be the loosest of pencils. A lot of detail, shading, backgrounds, this is traditionally left to the finisher when that word is used. But you can always tell who the penciler was.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s a Lee Weeks page, and no mistake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flashbacks to ASM 300<\/a> & 317<\/a> and MKSM 6<\/a>, of course, mixed in with the stuff that wasn\u2019t depicted. The specter of Venom taunts Eddie throughout his day, saying some part of it will always be inside him, and it\u2019s waiting for him to die, so the doctors can \u201cslice you open and set me free.\u201d It also characterizes their split as his idea, even tho it tried to leave him in TAC V2 5<\/a>, couldn\u2019t, then suddenly could when Millar came along with his characteristic lack of interest in continuity. Bit of \u201cI don\u2019t want you, you don\u2019t want me\u201d with these 2, really. But, Eddie thinks, he\u2019s held on. And he wonders why. If he\u2019s meant for some higher purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First hospital or second? Man, why did Strackzynski do that? He made a bad situation so much worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The bullet was meant for Peter, Mary Jane, and I think you know that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She can\u2019t imagine what they\u2019d do without her? She was already dead before, just remember that. Remember how Peter was in prison and a clone and stuff. This isn\u2019t terribly much worse than that. Man. What a sobering thought. Same assessment in terms of story quality and enjoyability, too. This is worse than the early clone saga. It\u2019s hard being a Spider-Man fan. The scene shifts to Spider-Man out Spider-Man-ing as MJ commands May to pull through. He busts up a mugging violently, thinking they\u2019ve caught him \u201cat the end of a VERY long week.\u201d Is it suddenly a week now? I give up. He tells the victim to call the police, and she scolds him for not stopping to see if she\u2019s ok. So he asks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter\u2019s in a huge hurry. Not to go see May or something, but to go see Madame Web. Knowing why he\u2019s there, she\u2019s already got some tea ready for the conversation she knows is coming. Peter explains what\u2019s happened to a woman who can see the future and probably knew before he did. So he wants her to contact May\u2019s spirit, to tell her come back. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s in the dossier for a clairvoyant, but Madame Web says she can do it, if the conditions are right. Ok, sure, why not? Meanwhile, Eddie Brock prays for guidance, his vow to protect the innocent at odds with his need to hurt Spider-Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, then. It\u2019s a good thing they got Lee Weeks. It\u2019s kind of depressing how many comic book artists wouldn\u2019t know how to draw a guy in a tight suit that\u2019s not so tight it looks like skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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