{"id":5208,"date":"2020-06-01T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T04:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2019-09-02T01:03:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T05:03:30","slug":"smu-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/06\/01\/smu-08\/","title":{"rendered":"SMU 07"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Spider-Man Unlimited launched as the first chapter of a crossover, deeply embedded in the goings on of the Spider-world. But as we saw before, it didn\u2019t take long to devolve into a collection of inconsequential stories by weak and rushed creative teams, and guess what, the trend continues here. The first story is the Ben Reilly one, written by Spider-Man artist Tom Lyle. Ron Lim, perhaps stretching himself too thin, does breakdowns for just under half of this story, finished by the heavy hand of Tom Palmer. Recent Web fill-in artist Chris Gosier pencils the rest, inked by Palmer, John Kalisz colors the whole thing. It begins with Ben getting some food when he sees some goons robbing a check cashing place across the street.
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Not sure why he only has his mask. But he does, so he leaps into action with just his mask and webshooters added to his regular clothes. He makes short work of the robbers, of course, crushing one guy\u2019s gun in his hand.
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I know wallowing in not being a real person is Ben\u2019s thing, but that\u2019s a weird thing to say to someone, and he should stop being weird. From there, we meet a guy called Rich Gannon, who is homeless, as he tries to buy some food but is turned away for smelling bad by a couple of jerks at a grocery store. He says he used to be a designer for Stark Industries, but they don\u2019t want to hear it.
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As we have established that Aunt May can hear what people are saying to her, this must be incredibly strange for her. Ben runs off talking about how he\u2019s not real and blah blah blah, the usual, and then the art team changes. I don\u2019t know whose fault it is, but Chris Gosier\u2019s art looks way worse here than it did in Web, as Ben walks by Rich Gannon.
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This story looks like it was done in a weekend. Rich is harassed by some more goons as Ben walks by with some groceries. Ben steps in, and of course, it\u2019s not a friendly chat.
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I am once again motivated to say even I could\u2019ve gotten a job drawing Marvel comics in this period, sheesh. The storytelling completely falls apart on the next page, as Ben helps up Rich, the goons act like they\u2019re not going to let them leave, and then Ben is back in his apartment, getting his suit on. All one one page! Did he leave Rich? What happened? Too late, he\u2019s headed back down there in costume.
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I guess he did just run off and leave Rich to the mercies of those guys. Nice! Ben takes them all out, of course, and when the cops show up, the random \u201cgood samaritan\u201d guy who was introduced on that very panel offers to help Rich find a job. Everyone goes home happy. Man, that hurt my eyes. Next up: Tom Brevoort & Mike Kanterovich write, Bob McLeod draws, Randy Emberlin inks and John Kalisz colors a Spidey story. The sudden shift to a professional penciler from the pre-Image era and solid inker is really jarring. Anyway, this one concerns Cardiac, a weird character who is a doctor by day and vigilante by night, usually not on Spidey\u2019s side on account of wanting to kill people. Tonight, he\u2019s come for one James Kapoztas, who runs an automotive company that just got away with making faulty airbags. This is the kind of thing Cardiac goes for, miscarriages of justice.
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That\u2019s pretty much Cardiac\u2019s deal in a nutshell. He\u2019s about to execute ol dude when Spider-Man smashes through the window.
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As they fight, Cardiac\u2019s intended victim sneaks out, but he\u2019s so scared he has a heart attack out in the hallway. Spidey breaks Cardiac\u2019s staff, prompting him to flee. Spider-Man finds Kapoztas out in the hallway and has someone call 911. Meanwhile, Cardiac goes back to work at his regular job as Dr. Eli Wirtham. Can you guess that he will be called on to operate on the guy he tried to kill? He totally is!
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In the end, he saves the guy, so that\u2019s nice. The whole thing where he thinks about how he\u2019s sworn to protect and kill people seems like it\u2019d be enough to end your vigilante career, but maybe that\u2019s just me. Spidey leaves to go find Cardiac, and later, he does, as Cardiac is now hovering outside his victim\/patient\u2019s window.
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Cardiac decides it\u2019s time go kill that dude, but while he\u2019s fighting Spider-Man, his intended victim has another cardiac episode (Eh???) and dies. When Cardiac sees this, he just flies away. And I guess got back to the hospital, like, super fast.
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Aaaaalrighty. The Mary Jane story has more eye-bleeding art by Chris Gosier and says it takes place before ASM 388, which we haven\u2019t read yet. Maybe I\u2019ll cover it when I get there. Maybe I never will. We shall see.
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