{"id":3444,"date":"2020-03-10T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T04:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=3444"},"modified":"2022-03-06T22:06:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T02:06:47","slug":"mtu-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/03\/10\/mtu-124\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU 124"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

He is, is he? I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m excited after last time [link]. Which we get right into, as this is a sequel to MTU 118<\/a>. Having moved his dumb castle to The Smokey Mountains, Professor Power is currently undergoing a crazy superscience process. He flashes back to MTU 118, and how Professor X ruined his life by not being magic (A caption calls this a \u201cjaundiced account of MTU 118.\u201d This same phrase was used to describe Fate\u2019s recollection of his fight with The Defenders a couple issues ago. This is a weird thing), but his new gig is, he had his superscientists turn his comatose son\u2019s body into some kind of living weapon, and now he\u2019s having his mind transferred to his son\u2019s body. That\u2019s love. \u00a0A big flash of light prompts a guy to say no one could survive it, and then\u2026
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\u201cHe will pay for not helping my son, who I have now turned into a vehicle! Who\u2019s crazy, I\u2019m not crazy!\u201d 3 days later, the bouncin\u2019 blue-furred Beast and his girlfriend Vera are at Kennedy Airport to pick up Beast\u2019s parents. He hasn\u2019t seen them since he was a teen in The X-Men, and he\u2019s not sure what they\u2019ll think of him. His dad seems pretty alright. His mom\u2026
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Ouch. Meanwhile, in Queens, a momentous occasion is happening, as Peter Parker and some of his friends are helping Aunt May and some of her friends move back into his childhood home. As she\u2019s discussed previously, she\u2019s opening it as a boarding house, and a lot of people from the Restwell Nursing Home are her first tenants. Let\u2019s meet them, since they\u2019re gonna be in the Spidey books for many years (And have already appeared in this blog, of course):
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Nathan Lubinsky\u2019s moving in too, of course, and that rounds out the cast of the house. With the moving done, Nathan wants to know what\u2019s up for dinner, and Arthur suggests they get take out from an Indian place in Rockefeller Center (I\u2019m not a New Yorker, but that seems unnecessarily far away), and guess who\u2019s eating at that same restaurant right now?
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Good grief, Edna. She storms off, calling poor Hank \u201ca horror.\u201d His dad explains that she always tried to ignore that he was different, but now that he\u2019s a world-famous Avengers with blue fur and fangs, she\u2019s freaked out. Hank is remarkably understanding, and bounds off to try to get her to talk to him, but unfortunately, that\u2019s when Professor Power shows up and zaps him.
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In spite of looking like a reject from a line of 80s action figures that didn\u2019t take off, Professor Power lives up to his name, giving Hank a rough time and eventually throwing him into traffic, right past the car Peter, Arthur, Peter\u2019s lab partner Roger Hochberg, and I guess his girlfriend, who I don\u2019t know and isn\u2019t named. Peter leaps out saying he\u2019s gonna go get photos, and switches into his Spidey gear. Roger\u2019s girlfriend notes Peter is a man of action, and she likes that, because all women everywhere are attracted to \u201cregular everyman\u201d Peter Parker. He accidentally leaves his camera webbed up with his clothes, but it\u2019s too late to worry about that, because Professor Power is about to zap the stunned Beast.
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Spidey recognizes that this is Matthew Power\u2019s body being controlled by his dad, and rightly shames him for it, but Power is way past reasonable. Spidey gets him in a chokehold, but Power grabs his wrists and throws him off, crushing his webshooters in the process.
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Same month as Stern makes it a point to have Spidey keep his Spider Sense a secret. As the battle continues, we cut to Hank\u2019s Mom upstairs in her hotel room, being mopey about losing her son, when the commotion outside brings her to the window to see him in action. A little kid runs into the battle, and Hank tosses him to Spidey at great personal cost, leaving himself open to a big zap. His Mom sees this and seems upset. Spidey tries to web Power up, but\u2026
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This would be the part in a later DeMatteis story where he\u2019d want to kill Hank for maximum pathos, but naturally, he\u2019ll be fine this time. As Mrs. McCoy rushes down to the street, Power goes to a nearby construction site and brings back a whole giant excavator to smash her son with, but then she runs out and gets between them.
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Enda distracts Power long enough for Spidey to get his bearings and web him into the ground, the big machinery crashing down on top of him. Hank and his Mom are reunited.
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Well, this was a weird one. It\u2019s always nice to see this kind of story with one of the mutants. Maybe predictable, but I enjoy a hopeful ending at least as much as the next guy. Come back next time for a move to Spectacular, as we reach a climactic moment for a member of the cast.
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