{"id":91,"date":"2021-01-04T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=91"},"modified":"2020-02-09T15:41:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T19:41:06","slug":"mtu-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/01\/04\/mtu-107\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU 107"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You think someone really counted all the panels? I\u2019m not about to. This is another 77 for $44 book. It\u2019s still Tom Defalco, Herb Trimpe & Mike Esposito, with Jim Shooter helping out on the story. I\u2019m gonna be honest, I have never been a Herb Trimpe fan, and DeFalco made last issue a chore, so I am\u2026 not excited, but let\u2019s get to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aaaaalright. Is this gonna be a Patty Hearst kinda thing? As she enters the courthouse, we cut to Matt Murdock & Foggy Nelson who\u2026 do nothing. Foggy says it could be dangerous and Matt says he\u2019s leaving. There\u2019s a plug to go read Daredevil #172. Sure. Then we go back to lawyer Jen Walters, secretly The Savage She-Hulk, who flashes back to how Hildy came to her for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don\u2019t know about all this, man. Jen points out she\u2019s not licensed to practice law in New York (Yet it was her idea for Hildy to turn herself in here?) and recommends Nelson & Murdock. Then a big red spaceship attacks. It must be Tuesday in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Holy spit, y\u2019all. DeFalco just has everyone spitting exposition at you in these. Exposition in dialogue is common in this era, of course, but there\u2019s smooth ways to do it, and then there\u2019s this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh man. This just keeps getting worse and it\u2019s only page 6. Yes, Man-Killer. From way back in MTU 8<\/a>. More or less the same ridiculous vehicle, now that I know that. Literally no one was demanding this return. Why is this happening? She & Spider-Man fight awhile, her goons mysteriously absent as soon as they got out of the vehicle. Then this happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am right there with you, Jen. Oh, hey, here come the goons now, kidnapping Hildy in an attempt to rescue her. Jen figures she has no choice but to reveal her secret, but before she can get big & green, she gets a rifle butt to the skull. M-K and her goons get away with Hildy, and Jen runs over to blame Spider-Man as Lance Bannon, the photographer who used to work with Peter at the Daily Globe, gets pictures of Spidey stuck in a car. At their hideout, M-K tells Hildy what she wants:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, I didn\u2019t expect this to happen here. Lance will be a regular fixture and rival for Peter at the Bugle from here on out. Back at the Man-Cave (Eh? No? I don\u2019t know), M-K has wired a van with tons of explosives, and then she gets in it with Hildy and drives somewhere. Always a good idea to drive your exploding van around. Meanwhile, Jen finds one of Man-Killer\u2019s bases and decides to Hulk out and get to work on it. She does this in the clothes she wore to the court house. If you can become a Hulk on purpose instead of by accident, why ruin your good clothes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The thing about early She-Hulk is, no matter what she was wearing as Jen, She-Hulk is wearing this ripped up white dress thing, which is just weird. Spier-Man sees She-Hulk harassing people he knows are bad guys, but he decides he better web her up, anyway, because\u2026 Well, because. He hasn\u2019t got much of a reason, and they\u2019ve never met before. She-Hulk grabs the web and pulls Spidey right off the wall, slamming him into a pile of crates.  He eventually returns the favor, dropping a much larger pile of crates on top of her. Good thing there’s all these crates around! He worries she\u2019s hurt but she is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is painful. They jump in the flying machine from earlier (She-Hulk driving, of course, as Spider-Man is a noted terrible driver) and use it to get downtown in a hurry, while JJJ shows up to the club that M-K and her goons plan to blow up. Spidey & Shulkie get there just in time. She-Hulk fights M-K while Spider-Man terrorizes her entourage. JJJ is giving a speech inside, and that\u2019s not going to end well\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey seems especially manic in battle this issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seriously!? That\u2019s your ending? What role was Hildy going to play in M-K\u2019s plan? Why was she even here? And then she commits suicide to stop Man-Killer instead of letting the two superheroes apprehend her? And I don’t even wanna get into the politics of it. This issue was barely coherent! Sheesh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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