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After careful consideration of his situation and options, Hulk has decided smashing is in order. Having 1 guy write 2 out of 3 Spider-Man titles always seemed like a weird choice. Inevitably, he began to treat his two books like one book, which isn\u2019t necessarily nice to readers who can\u2019t afford a lot of comics (Like, say, a very young me), which makes ASM feel like the weird book that\u2019s disconnected from Spider-Man continuity in spite of being THE Spider-Man book. But I think it\u2019s even stranger than that now that he\u2019s made the 2 books unconnected, and running multi-part stories in both of them at the same time. But, anyway, now there\u2019s 4 books, and Conway\u2019s 2nd run in the Spider-Office is drawing to a close, and he continues his \u201cRemember Acts of Vengeance?\u201d series with this Hulk rematch. Web is still Conway, Alex Saviuk, Keith Williams & Bob Sharen. To start, JJJ has the staff of his new Jameson Publications, which is essentially the entire classic Daily Bugle staff, at this point, watching a news report of sightings of some kind of wild animal in Connecticut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our previous late 90s block seemed to indicate Betty had just become a reporter. Here we are 6 years prior and Betty has just become a reporter. And I swear she was a reporter already about 30 issues ago, but I\u2019m beginning to doubt myself. So, I\u2019ve never read this issue, but I have read the next one. The obvious villain guy down there turns out to be an extremely ill-advised sequel to one of the most beloved Fantastic Four comics of all time, FF #51, \u201cThis Man\u2026 This Monster!\u201d (In spite of a caption referencing #53 on the next page). It\u2019s a story about a guy who builds a thingie and steals The Thing\u2019s powers, but ends up using those powers to save Reed Richards from certain death, sacrificing himself in the process. He began as a villain, but died a hero. It\u2019s rightly considered one of Kirby & Lee\u2019s finest issues. And this guy\u2026 is that guy\u2019s brother. And he\u2019s built a similar thingie. And he thinks the FF killed his brother. And he\u2019s out for revenge. He sure waited awhile. After years of perfecting the thingie, he\u2019s going to field test it, and if that works, he\u2019s gonna go kill the FF. Ok! Meanwhile, Robbie is FINALLY going to stop being mean to Peter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buddies again. Couldn\u2019t have happened fast enough. That\u2019s The Hulk smashing through Connecticut down there, of course, and he\u2019s got a passenger: Bruce Banner\u2019s one true love, Betty Ross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He is green and dumb again instead of gray and a mobster now. Soon he will be green and smart. Modern coloring techniques have allowed Hulk\u2019s transformation and things like it to seem more fluid, but something about how his skin ad to change in patches because that\u2019s the best they could do in older comics always seemed vaguely creepy to me. I dunno, I still kind of prefer this effect to the slicker stuff they can do now. Anyway, meanwhile, Mary Jane\u2019s cousin Kristy is being released from the hospital into her care. Kristy seems to be a changed girl, and Mj is very happy for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ugh, that subplot. I hate it so much. But, there you have it. How could MJ be Kristy\u2019s guardian if her husband is Spider-Man? Answer: Kristy moves in with some random friends of theirs. Weird! But hey, why not? But meanwhile Meanwhile, Betty is driving Peter to Connecticut, giving the speech about how she\u2019s spent her whole life letting other people tell her what to do and now she\u2019s her own person, which I swear she gives every 5 years or less since poor Ned got got. But then they hit a road block, and Peter sees a Jeep peel off into the woods. He just hops out of the car, saying he\u2019s gonna go get pictures of whatever\u2019s going on, and runs into the woods before Betty can stop him, switching to Spider-Man. But about that Jeep\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This guys is really dumb. He proves how dumb he is by creeping inside, finding the sleeping Bruce & Betty, and just zapping Bruce withhis whatzit, turning him into a really angry Hulk, who bats the guy across the room for hurting him. I mean\u2026 what was supposed to happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don\u2019t happen to know why everyone thinks Hulk is dead. Happens to every superhero eventually. Hulk rampages up through the floor, causing the entire 2nd story of the building to collapse. Betty comes crashing down on top of the dude, who she thinks has died in the fall. Man, what a genius he turned out to be. Hulk has decided the dude was Banner\u2019s friend, and asks Spider-Man if he is, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So now they\u2019ve both been zapped by the thingie. Hulk punches the now disoriented Spidey through the wall and out into a nearby lake, where Hulk proceeds to try to drown him. They both go under the water\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey\u2019s not done with Hulk yet, and things are going to get very weird next issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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