{"id":4682,"date":"2020-04-30T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=4682"},"modified":"2019-06-08T14:15:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T18:15:36","slug":"tac-143","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/04\/30\/tac-143\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 143"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Punisher is gonna be so mad when he gets de-mind controlled. Still Gerry Conway, Sal Buscema & Bob Sharen in the cut, and things get off to an action-packed start as Spidey jumps some goons on Punisher\u2019s boat.
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Spidey believes the goons are just garden variety goons, and webs them up and leaves, wondering where The Punisher could\u2019ve disappeared to. Answer: Dallas\/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas, where he\u2019s walking around with The Persuader and another mook, and gets recognized by a security guard.
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That shot of the newspaper sure seems random, doesn\u2019t it? It couldn\u2019t have repercussions for this issue\u2026 or a surprising number of future issues\u2026 could it? Nah. Back in New York, The Arranger recaps a few things for Kingpin, spelling out that they hired Tombstone specifically to get Roland Raymond so they could make him into The Persuader (They really had to hire an out of town hitman to kidnap somebody? Kidnapping isn’t even his thing!). Now, having used The Persuader to brainwash Punisher, Punisher will assassinate The Lobo Brothers (Hey! That was fast!). Kingpin cuts him off, disinterested in the details, obsessing over Daredevil, and that\u2019s it for that scene. Hey, remember that woman who looked an awful lot like Gwen Stacy? I know it\u2019s been a long time. But she\u2019s still running to New York, and being pursued by armored goons who now seem to look an awful lot like The High Evolutionary\u2019s Purifiers, hunting her with something called a \u201cGene Tracer.\u201d She evades them, though, and continues her journey. Meanwhile, Peter Parker is late for dinner.
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News of The Punisher being spotted in Dallas is on the TV, though, so Peter just\u2026 takes off. Like, immediately, almost no explanation. MJ is understandably miffed. In Dallas, The Punisher is harassing some drug dealers who work for The Lobo Brothers, The Persuader and the other guy watching from a jeep, when he comes under fire.
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Dallas, where literally everyone drives a jeep, I guess? That seems like an awful lot of property damage for people on a secret mission. The next day, Peter arrives in Dallas, having made up an excuse to attend a convention for his book. His regular publicist isn\u2019t there, it\u2019s a local lady called Andrea carting him around, and using his job as a crime photographer as a flimsy excuse, he asks her about The Lobo Brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now I know what yer thinking. \u201cThe Lobo Brothers.\u201d \u201cThe Brothers of the Moon.\u201d Surely not..? Mmmmmmmaybe! I guess Peter\u2019s at a comic book convention? It doesn\u2019t really say, but it\u2019s very superhero-themed, so he sort of has a purpose there. But he takes a lunch break to go find Punisher. He changes into his suit and just walks the floor, looking like an attendee, which is fun. \u201cThirty-eight minutes later,\u201d we\u2019re told, Spider-Man has located The Lobo Brothers\u2019 mansion, but he\u2019s not the only one.
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As Spidey comes after him, a stray shot from The Punisher wings one of The Lobo Brothers, who makes a whooooole lot of wolf metaphors while talking about how The Punisher can\u2019t stop them. The costumed folk, meanwhile, go into a pool in their struggle.
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Spidey was just faking, hoping Punisher would let up if he thought his foe was dead, but since he hasn\u2019t, Spidey busts loose. And when he breaks the surface of the pool, the STILL unnamed mook guy grazes his head with a bullet, and he blacks out. Whoops! When he wakes up, Punisher is standing over him, fighting The Persuader\u2019s command to kill him. He finally fires\u2026
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Well, there you have it. We\u2019ll certainly be seeing more of The Lobo Brothers\u2026 if that\u2019s even possible given their choice of swimwear. The 80s!
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