{"id":4431,"date":"2019-10-25T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2019-09-02T00:55:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T04:55:20","slug":"tac-134","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/10\/25\/tac-134\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 134"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For a time after TAC 100, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man got the tagline \u201cThe All-New, All-Daring\u201d above the title. It wasn\u2019t really all-new or all-daring\u2026 same cast and all\u2026 but it did come with an all-new creative team, including writer Peter David, who is back for these 3 issues. He co-created The Sin-Eater for a pretty famous story we\u2019ll get back to eventually, and I guess he\u2019s back to give the last word on his creation. He is joined by Sal Buscema, Vince Colleta and Janet Jackson (As ever, not that Janet Jackson). Sal drew most of the first 20 issues of this title, and now he\u2019s back, and he\u2019s not going anywhere for over 100 issues! That\u2019s commitment. And when he does leave, he will be unceremoniously dumped for a guy with no chops whatsoever because he\u2019s so far out of fashion in the 90s, which is pretty crappy. I\u2019m not really a fan, but he\u2019s a dependable workhorse with solid storytelling, and neither of those things seemed terribly en vogue by the mid-90s.  But that\u2019s getting way ahead of myself. Let\u2019s see if we can cover this story (Which I haven\u2019t read) without spoiling the earlier story (Which I have). Since we\u2019ve never seen the Sin-Eater on the blog yet, the opening pages may give you an idea of who we\u2019re dealing with\u2026
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This is wild to me off top because\u2026 Like, Vince Colletta is rather infamous in the game, and not in a good way, and Sal Buscema is a pretty divisive figure (It\u2019s not just me), and yet this is the best looking work of Sal\u2019s career! So much grit and texture everywhere, wow! Art aside, that lady said \u201csome spy outfit called SHIELD.\u201d Is SHIELD really not that well known? So, yeah, Carter went nuts, quit SHIELD, became a NY police detective somehow, and lost his partner to a shooting, sending him into a depression. He became a drunk, and that mixed with his exposure to crazy drugs and his hardline religious faith combined to turn him into The Sin-Eater, a murderous vigilante bent on wiping the sins of humanity from the face of the Earth. He killed all kinds of people, innocent people, cops, a judge, a priest, almost Betty Brant, while in his regular life as a cop, was assigned to catch, uh, himself. But eventually, Spider-Man caught him. Spidey had been badly affected by his killing spree and really beat the hell out of him.
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Trouble\u2019s coming. This is followed by the flimsiest excuse for MJ to pose in a bikini, saying she\u2019s hoping to convince Peter to ditch news photos for this sort of thing by photographing herself on a timer for TWO WHOLE PAGES. Egregious, even for the time. Elsewhere, as if The Sin-Eater\u2019s all-but guaranteed upcoming killing spree weren\u2019t bad enough, Electro has gotten out of jail. He decides Spider-Man always humiliates Electro, so he wants to pull some jobs as plain ol\u2019 Max Dillon to keep a low profile, starting with a jewelry store.
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While that\u2019s going on, we get back to Peter & MJ\u2026
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I cannot get over how good these pages look, for real. A big beef people have with Vince Colletta is he infamously erased backgrounds he didn\u2019t feel like drawing, which could be happening on this page, but the stuff that got printed looks fantastic. At any rate, peter is really livid, and he says he\u2019s going to get in his Spider-suit and go pay Carter a visit. Says he wants him to be nervous and looking over his shoulder. That shoulds like a great mental place to put an unstable murder man, yeah. MJ is not having it, so Peter just walks off. Seems like this is gonna be an ugly one. Peter gets Carter\u2019s address from Robbie at The Bugle, then Spider-Man is off, thinking about how not only did the Sin-Eater\u2019s rampage upset him tremendously, but he thought he\u2019d found a friend in Carter only to be horribly betrayed. But as he talks to himself about it, he begins to question whether MJ was right. Then he gets to Carter\u2019s place, mobbed by reporters, and sees a man who introduces himself as Carter\u2019s agent addressing them. Spidey is furious all over again, thinking Carter is acting like a celebrity, and makes his way into Carter\u2019s apartment, intent on scaring him to death.
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Yikes. Elsewhere, Electro\u2019s allegedly low profile crime spree has cops showing up at the latest place he\u2019s robbing, but since he\u2019s not in costume, they\u2019re not expecting a supervillain, and just get zapped. A very shaken Spider-Man is nearby, horrified that the monster he went to face is a nice old guy he crippled. He worries that maybe he\u2019s not pulling his punches anymore, that he\u2019s become JJJ\u2019s menace (Even though that all happened a long time ago), when he sees lightning. He recognizes Electro even though he\u2019s out of costume, and while he\u2019s so freaked out he really doesn\u2019t want to get involved, he\u2019s still Spider-Man, so\u2026
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Spidey\u2019s being gentle because he\u2019s rattled by Sin-Eater, and Electro exploits it. A joke from Spidey about not wanting to add anymore static to all the electricity flying around gives Electro an idea, and he really zaps Spidey, making him fall to the ground.
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Uuuuuh\u2026 what? That doesn\u2019t sound very spider-y. That\u2019s a weird development. But, shaky pseudo-science aside, this was a pretty intense issue. Not to harp on it, but here\u2019s still another example of a dark Spidey story that\u2019s not just wallowing in angst like Kraven\u2019s Last Hunt. This was so much more affecting after just one issue, if you asked me. You didn\u2019t, of course. Let\u2019s see what happens next time.
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