{"id":10128,"date":"2021-08-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=10128"},"modified":"2020-07-06T22:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T02:44:12","slug":"ssm-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/08\/13\/ssm-13\/","title":{"rendered":"SSM 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I cannot tell you how glad I am to see Mike Weiringo again after last post. This Savage Land 3-parter is weird to me because I only bought part 3 at the time? Why did I do that? Maybe I didn\u2019t know it was part 3, but then why did I buy it at all? My choices were confusing sometimes. As the dust settled on the clone mess and the line stopped being one continuous story, I more or less whittled my pull down to ASM and SM. Sometimes I\u2019d buy TAC because DeMatteis would be the only one to really follow up on Norman Osborn and I felt like that was important. But he also did a bunch of immensely stupid stuff I just skipped, and this book\u2026 If ASM is about to shift into a Greatest Hits mode for a while, with DeFalco bringing back or replacing classic characters, SSM is Greatest Misses. And at the time, I hadn\u2019t developed an appreciation for Weiringo (And to be fair to young me, he\u2019s a couple years from a quantum leap that will take him from a solid cartoonist to one of the absolute greats of his day). It was easy to skip. But, hey, 75 cents! Soooo, after a 1-page prologue where a shadowy beast is awakened\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still seeding the college thing. Don\u2019t know where to go with Spider-Man? Back to college. He\u2019s gone back to school a million times. He\u2019s recently gone back in school as I type this in 2020. Peter has gone back to school at least 4 times since graduating in ASM 186, if memory serves. He really sucks at it, apparently.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So everyone disembarks, making this one of the only stories in Marvel history where a vehicle successfully lands in The Savage Land instead of being shot down or attacked by a dinosaur, and they head into a complex where we learn Roxxon is working on this, so that can\u2019t be good. Then we meet a Dr. Gerald Roth, head of the project, who says he\u2019s grateful the news is here to get the word out about how dire the situation is. As he starts his speech, Peter slips away, and soon Spider-Man is bounding around the landscape, hoping to get the real story from his ol\u2019 pal, Ka-Zar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Honestly, I was a dope for not being all-in on \u2018Ringo yet at this stage. Look how CRISP everything is. What I\u2019d do to have such a sharp line! Anyway, Ka-Zar has gotten word that a nearby dam is over capacity and going to burst, and this village will be wiped out unless they can do something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quick interlude so the still mysterious but obviously avian monster can tromp around, then we\u2019re back to the SHIELD\/Roxxon site, where they\u2019re trying to solve the dam issue. The ice caps are melting so fast they could put the entire Savage Land underwater in a month. And if that\u2019s not bad enough, frozen in the ice, we see Stegron The Dinosaur Man (Last seen on the blog in MTU 20<\/a>, but last seen by Spidey more recently).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And so a race against time begins as Ka-Zar, Spidey and SHIELD try to help The Fall People get out of the area before doom arrives, all while fending off a stampede of prehistoric beasts. Spidey and Ka-Zar go see Shanna and Zabu, the former of which is tending to a sick child, when things get worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our heroes and the sick girl are the only ones left in the village, and they\u2019re able to escape up into the trees before getting drowned. And then, you\u2019ll never guess\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GASP! The most cartoonishly evil corporation in The Marvel Universe is not being honest about what\u2019s happening! I can\u2019t\u2026 believe it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean, how am I supposed to react to this? Who in the world is going to be amped up about a monster chicken? This makes Gog in Spidey\u2019s first visit seem positively essential. These last couple issues have had like \u2153 more pages than usual to fill the back with promotional material about upcoming series and stuff. I keep being surprised when they end because there are so many pages left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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