{"id":1186,"date":"2019-08-01T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2019-05-14T00:36:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T04:36:26","slug":"asm-229","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/08\/01\/asm-229\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 229"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nothing! Not even a full team of X-Men! What hope does our man have in the face of such destructive power? Stern, Romita, Jr., Mooney & Wein remain the creative team. Things get rolling with Madame Web, a strange psychic introduced by Denny O\u2019Neil & John Romita, Jr., having a nightmare about a huge creature trying to kill her, and a spider-themed champion failing to stop it. She awakes in a panic, and she knows who to call\u2026
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Meanwhile, out in the harbor, a big fancy boat is pulling into New York, and it contains X-Men foes Black Tom Cassidy and The Juggernaut\u2026
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As Juggernaut trudges across the bottom of the harbor, unkillable as always, Madam Web gets a sense that her tormentor is on his way, and knows she needs to contact Spider-Man again. He\u2019s at The Daily Bugle at the moment, checking in with the usual suspects, when Betty Brant shows up out of the blue. We\u2019ve not seen her in something like 40 issues, if memory serves, and as you\u2019ll recall, things were extremely awkward when we did.
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Stern does a nice and much appreciated job of sweeping that nonsense under the rug in just a few panels. But then, Madame Web calls Glory Grant\u2019s phone for Peter, telling him his foe will be coming up out of the sea, and it\u2019s on. Peter rushes off, wondering if this means he\u2019ll have to fight The Submariner, as Juggernaut emerges from the water and begins stomping toward Madame Web\u2019s place. As the two combatants converge on each other, look how dynamic and energetic Romita, Jr.\u2019s Spider-Man is as he swings around\u2026
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As he comes into his own, JRJR\u2019s Spidey is more active and visually interesting than anyone\u2019s since Ditko. Spidey rounds a corner and sees his foe\u2026 and unfortunately for him, he\u2019s got no prior knowledge of The Juggernaut. He decides to try a sucker punch move and launch himself into a kick in the back of Juggernaut\u2019s head, but Juggernaut doesn\u2019t even notice, while Spider-Man is knocked back with such force that he barely avoids smashing himself into a building. He tries to web him next, but Juggernaut\u2019s weird mystical deal provides a force field around him, the web doesn\u2019t even get to him. Spidey\u2019s next plan is far more complicated. He webs up all the side streets to keep people away, then rips a hole in the ground well in front of Juggy and then just\u2026 waits.
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And so it goes. A man who can\u2019t be stopped vs. a man who never gives up. Spider-Man tries to wrestle him to the ground, and when the doesn\u2019t work, in true Spidey fashion, he decides to just annoy him to death, sitting on his back and saying he won\u2019t leave until Juggernaut stops. So Juggernaut just grabs onto his arm.
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Woof. In the ruins of the offices Juggernaut just smashed, Spidey pulls himself to his feet, and a ringing phone turns out to be Madame Web, saying she\u2019s gotten a psychic mention of the word \u201cCyttorak,\u201d the god who gives Juggernaut his power. Spidey thinks that sounds like something he\u2019s heard from Dr. Strange in the past, but he\u2019s not sure. He tells MW to call The Avengers or the FF, some real muscle, but they\u2019re all busy (And since this is the much more tight continuity of the early 80s, a note even lets you know you can read FF 241 and Avengers 219 to see what they\u2019re doing right now). Meanwhile, Spider-Man has arrived at Dr. Strange\u2019s house. Strange isn\u2019t home, as usual, but Wong is there. Spidey asks if he\u2019s ever heard of The Juggernaut.
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As our man leaps back into the fray, Juggernaut has caused a massive traffic jam, and the cops have surrounded him to harmlessly shoot at him, and still The Juggernaut just marches toward Madame Web\u2019s place. Spider-Man has decided Juggy\u2019s gotten too close, and swung on ahead of him. When Juggernaut arrives, the stairs are all webbed up, but of course\u2026
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Spidey has electrified the steel door to the apartment, but nothing stops the Juggernaut, so soon enough he\u2019s through it. Spider-Man tries his best, but he\u2019s soon buried under a collapsing ceiling. And then Juggernaut pulls Madame Web from the, well, web of electronics that keep her alive.
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Paramedics arrive and put Madame Web on life support, but they don\u2019t know if she\u2019ll make it. And as we know, nothing motivates Spider-Man like guilt, and with her possible death on his head, a furious webslinger lights out of there to find and somehow punish The Juggernaut. And that\u2019s to be continued\u2026 Can our hero possibly triumph? We\u2019ll find out next issue!
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