{"id":86,"date":"2021-01-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=86"},"modified":"2020-02-09T15:47:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T19:47:37","slug":"mtu-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/01\/06\/mtu-108\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU 108"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MTU is still looking for a regular writer, it seems, as David Michelinie tags back in to script over a plot by editor Tom DeFalco. Herb Trimpe & Mike Esposito stay on the art. Under an utterly awful title, we open in the middle of a fight\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026then flashback a little to Thermo (I am not familiar) sapping all the heat out of two wouldbe muggers and almost killing them. Peter Parker\u2019s new rival at the Bugle Lance Bannon is there to get some photos when the cops show up, which makes Peter Parker, reading the Bugle in his office at ESU the next day, even more irritated that he hasn\u2019t been able to catch the \u201cstreet stalker\u201d who\u2019s giving people hypothermia all over town (Is \u201cstreet stalker\u201d the best the papers can do for such a weird MO?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coach… Barnstorm… Ok. Spider-Man vs. the ugly truth about college athletics! What is Peter\u2019s reaction here? What emotion is that? He looks like he\u2019s terrified, sick, and just remembered he didn\u2019t put the turkey in the oven at the same time. Pete goes out as Spider-Man to clear his mind, and happens upon a guy walking into a park with a gun. He sets up his camera, thinking, \u201cMaybe I can show Lance Bannon who the REAL pro photog is!\u201d I mean\u2026 Lance at least takes his own pictures instead of having it shoot on auto and hoping for the best, ya know? Maybe this isn\u2019t the right hill to die on. Spidey leaps into the park expecting a mugger. Instead, it\u2019s the mercenary Paladin, who says he\u2019s here on business. Spider-Man doesn\u2019t believe him, though so it\u2019s time for the old \u201ctwo heroes fight over a misunderstanding\u201d bit. Been a little while, actually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paladin, everybody! Lance Bannon gets a photo of Spidey picking up the victim to take to the hospital. I\u2019m sure that\u2019ll look good in the Bugle. Spidey tracks Paladin, still in full costume, to The Gold Star restaurant, emerging from a horse drawn carriage, which is hilarious, but it turns out he\u2019s not really on a date, he\u2019s meeting the people who hired him. They ask Spider-Man to join them for dinner (After he\u2019s forced to make a bow tie from his web to be allowed into the restaurant in a pretty good bit), and reveal themselves to be the best friend and wife of Thermo, the so-called \u201cstreet stalker.\u201d They tell Spider-Man Thermo\u2019s origin, which is ludicrous. The 3 of them were nutritionists and he devised a machine that would \u201ctransmit synthetic vitamins directly into the body via microwaves, tested it on himself, and became a super powered jerk. Sure, like ya do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back at his place, thinking about trying to cash in on your superheroin\u2019 makes Peter think of how he tried to cash in when he got his powers, which leads to a 3-panel retelling of Spider-Man\u2019s origin for some reason, and then the decision to help with Thermo, after all. The next day, at the Daily Bugle, Peter tries to deliver his photos of Spider-Man fighting Paladin, but Lance Bannon has already brought his pic of Spidey carrying an unconscious person in, so JJJ is already well into crafting a story about how Spider-Man is the \u201cstreet stalker.\u201d Naturally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paladin has tracked his target to an abandoned printing house, where he\u2019s just named himself \u201cThermo, the Thermatronic Man\u201d (bit of a mouthful), then told himself the power is controlling him and he needs help, and then the heroes come crashing in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am a fan of David Michelinie, but Christine talking to the machine here is so funny, oh man. I can only hope this was done Marvel Method and Trimpe drew her hugging the machine and Michelinie just worked with what he had. Anyway, Thermo shows up, assumes his old friend and his wife are together now and kills the dude. The heroes show up too late, then rush off after their prey, and now we\u2019re about caught back up to page 1. Paladin finally uses the nullifier thingie he got earlier\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BROK!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that\u2019s it, guys. Spider-Man is dead. Come back next post for the all-new adventures of Paladin & Dazzler, definitely not featuring Spider-Man!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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