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Werewolf problems continue! And it looks like this cover is where Alex Saviuk starts doing a more McFarlane-ish Spidey. But not inside, where Mark Bagley once again guests on pencils. And where Spider-Man is swinging toward a box truck, saying if his contact is right, the next few minutes \u201cmight be kinda exciting.\u201d
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Looks like Bags is on the way to getting with the program, too. Spidey questions the goons, who of course tell him they\u2019re going to war with The Kingpin, and it\u2019s going down tonight. He leaves them webbed up and calls The Arranger on a payphone. Arrangey is panicked to hear the attack could come tonight, and has no idea how to tell Kingpin, but Spidey says that part\u2019s not his problem and hangs up. Arranger recaps how he got here real quick before biting the bullet and going to tell his boss that a gang led by werewolves is coming to kill him. How will he react? We don\u2019t know, we cut away to Peter Parker at The Daily Bugle, where he\u2019s asking Kate Cushing if JJJ will print a story about the impending gang war.
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As JJJ pulls Nick into his office to chat, Kate wonders how much longer The Bugle can function like this, and thinks she\u2019s only stuck around out of loyalty to Robbie. Peter, meanwhile, is met in the hallway by Joy Mercado.
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What, and they\u2019re not friendly now? I get Conway wanting to reference his old work, I guess, but\u2026 weird. Peter goes off feeling bad for not helping Glory sooner, while Chameleon meets with Hammerhead in the paper\u2019s garage to say the Lobos are attacking Kingpin tonight.
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When I was a kid, comics taught me all kinds of things. They dramatically expanded my vocabulary. I learned about various random subjects that came up in stories. And here\u2019s where Spider-Man comics taught lil\u2019 not-quite-10-year-old me about bulimia. Well, not here-here. I didn\u2019t have this issue. But I was still reading WEB and TAC out of the library when I could find them, and obviously, this subplot is not going anywhere for awhile. And also this scene was reprinted in Spider-Man Saga, a miniseries summarizing Spidey\u2019s whole life up to that point. Anyway, later that night, Spider-Man breaks into Glory Grant\u2019s apartment.
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Say, Bagley\u2019s Spidey is really looking like Bagley\u2019s Spidey here. Over at Kingpin\u2019s place, everyone\u2019s on lockdown and loaded for war. Arranger checks in on Kingpin one last time, who says they\u2019ll discuss his responsibility for this after it\u2019s over. Meanwhile, Spider-Man has made it to the airport, where he\u2019s begun to suspect Eduardo is a werewolf (Quickwitted, he is), but when he approaches the hangar, he soon as other things to think about, as he is greeted with a hail of bullets. Not that that slows him down too much. However\u2026
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Out of the hangar comes a helicopter full of goons, which the Lobos leap into. Spidey tries to hitch a ride with his web, but fire from various machines guns forces him to bail into the harbor. Which means he\u2019s nowhere nearby as the helicopter descends on The Kingpin\u2019s building.
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Things are looking grim all over! Except\u2026 the next issue of Spider-Man to hit the stands is ASM 318, which literally has nothing to do with this. The way Conway\u2019s titles and ASM didn\u2019t seem to be the same universe becomes apparent. I guess it would be hard to make your two titles more distinct, but\u2026 it\u2019s making things weird. So, join us next post as we skip ASM 318 and go on to TAC 153 for more of\u2026 everything in this one. Plus more on Joe Robertson & Tombstone.
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