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So. Picking up moments after last post, things get weird instantly on page one\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since when does a SWAT team get mobilized just because Spider-Man is in the area? Who calls him \u201cthe bug?\u201d This feels nothing like a Spider-Man comic. Up above them, Spidey is still holding The Jackal\u2019s hand, which is weird, and some bad copy tells us why, and they\u2019re being targeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, yeah, there\u2019s some stuff The Punisher would never say, ever. What is this issue? Spider sense alerting him to trouble, Spidey whirls to see the SWAT team coming. Punisher tells Spider-Man he\u2019ll shoot Jackal through him if he has to, but of course, he\u2019s like miles away or something, so Spider-Man doesn\u2019t hear him. Why is he not \u201cPunisher War Journal\u201d narrating like he has in basically every comic for 20+ years by this point instead of saying this awful dialogue out loud? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How long has it been since I said I despise this version of The Jackal? I despise this version of The Jackal. Why are the cops treating Spider-Man like a villain??? What is happening? Jackal, sure, tho how the cops could even know who he is, I couldn\u2019t guess, so they really shouldn\u2019t care about either of them just hanging out on the Empire State Building. This is all nonsense. I guess this is right after Frank assassinated Nick Fury for no reason, in another example of the kind of abysmal mess comics of this era produced (Don\u2019t worry about Nick, he was fine), so as he leaves the scene, we\u2019re told he\u2019s extra-unhinged and has randomly decided to get revenge on The Jackal for tricking him back in the 70s. Again, how does he even know about The Jackal? How does he know that guy is The Jackal? How did he know The Jackal would be here? Literally nothing makes sense. Meanwhile, at Aunt May\u2019s house, MJ is visiting her Aunt Anna, who\u2019s staying there and cleaning up since no one\u2019s lived there in awhile. It\u2019s been, like a week since May died, but sure, no one\u2019s lived there in awhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Symbolism! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This take on The Punisher is really vexing me. Punisher is the simplest character on Earth, how do you write him this wrong? Spidey lowers Jackal to the ground so they can walk and he can \u201cdigest what\u2019s happening,\u201d and also so Punisher can start shooting at them. Spidey leaps into action, and away from Jackal as Punisher seems to be firing on an innocent man on the street. But Spidey realizes too late that that was just a feint to get him away from The Jackal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cUnless you want to get bullets on you.\u201d Sheesh, man. Spidey attacks Frank, the cops show up, he puts Frank down and flees with The Jackal, thinking that he wasn\u2019t totally willing to trust him, but now that Jackal took those bullets for him, he must have been telling the truth. Ugh. Spidey swings The Jackal to his lab, and Kaine watches. Now, you may be thinking Kaine still believes this is the real Peter and Ben is the clone. Because that must be what he\u2019s thought all along, right? Because that is the only thing that makes any sense. Well, of course not. He implies he\u2019s known the whole time, which is impossible, and that he was willing to kill people to give Peter \u201cthe life he deserved\u201d not because he was the original, but because he was a successful clone, and everything Kaine is not. Kaine now makes zero sense. This comic is just wall-to-wall dumb. Then he has his dumb vision of the future, and this time he finally sees who kills MJ, and he\u2019s shocked. I mean, literally who could it be other than Peter? Who could it have been the entire time? They still haven\u2019t shown us yet, tho. Blah. Spidey gets Jackal to his lab as, back at the fight scene, The Punisher has escaped into the sewer, and the cops are after him. He\u2019s ready to just start killing them when he notices a way out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who is this for? Who would want to read this? Punisher escapes the cops, and I really don\u2019t care and don\u2019t know why he is still here other than to fill pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So we just keep on truckin\u2019 through this terrible story, which has so far gotten worse with every chapter. Can it keep up the total lack of quality? It\u2019s 1995, of course it can!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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