{"id":123,"date":"2019-06-25T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=123"},"modified":"2019-04-23T01:08:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T05:08:05","slug":"mtu-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/06\/25\/mtu-102\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU 102"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This issue, we got Mike W. Barr writing with Frank Springer & Mike Esposito on the lines. We begin with Spider-Man flying through the sky above ESU, trying to change clothes in mid-air because he\u2019s late for a conference. That\u2019s an unusual plan. It sorts works. He lands in a bush and finishes there, then it\u2019s on to the \u201cGamma Therapy for The Mentally Ill\u201d Conference. The\u2026 the what?? This doesn\u2019t sound like a good idea! I\u2019m not alone in thinking that, as the conference is just calling up an unscheduled speaker, Dr. Delia Childress. I don\u2019t know who she is, but she\u2019s got a leg brace on and the sight of her seems to spook Dr. Leonard Samson, gamma-irradiated psychiatrist and sometimes superhero (You can tell by the green hair). Dr. Childress is in no way into this topic.
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Samson argues that the Hulk is a product of uncontrolled<\/em> gamma radiation, and that anything taken without control can be deadly. Then he says controlled gamma has benefits before lifting the stage to prove his point. I guess? How does this prove gamma rays will help people with mental problems? I am not the only one skeptical of this either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Suddenly, Samson seems to lose control of himself, first accidentally smashing his podium, then passing out, then waking up and telling everyone to clear the auditorium so they won\u2019t get hurt. Well, he\u2019s got my vote on the safety of gamma radiated people. As the crowd becomes a mob, Peter notices his Spider Sense suggests danger is in the projection booth, so he swaps clothes\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imagine you\u2019re some tough guy who goons for supervillains for a living. The job\u2019s going ok. And then Spider-Man swings through a window and says \u201cYay! Chocolate pudding tonight!\u201d What do you even think? How do you respond? I mean, you say \u201cget him!\u201d or something like that, because you\u2019re a goon, but what do you THINK? Spider-Man must be a crazy person, what is he talking about? \u00a0Anyway, he whups some goons and notices they were pointing some kind of ray at Samson, but then someone we can\u2019t see knocks Spidey on the head and runs for it. Spidey recognizes him, but we\u2019ll have to wait a bit to see who it is. Have you seen this issue’s cover? I have a suspect. Samson rushes in, and Spidey tells him he thinks the thingie was designed to \u201cenhance the activity of some sort of radiation,\u201d but his attacker crushed it. Samson thinks he\u2019s right, and wonders how he knows so much about science, but then Delia comes in and they argue some, forgetting all about Spider-Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weird transition, Pete! If you don\u2019t know, you\u2019ve probably guessed that Doc Samson is a Hulk character. I\u2019m not much of a Hulk guy, so I don\u2019t know much about him, either. But he clearly has a history with this woman, and I suspect he\u2019s the reason she has to wear a brace. Kind of a surprise she\u2019d go to lunch with him. Peter follows them, worried Samson will be attacked again, but they go fancy, and Peter Parker can\u2019t afford fancy. Delia tells Samson their history together so we can hear it. Awkward. He and her father apparently used to make her do things like scuba diving and fencing and wouldn\u2019t let her do anything she wanted to do, and one say she got so mad when her dad told her she wouldn\u2019t like riding motorcycles that she accidentally crashed one into a tree, ruining her leg. Uh\u2026 ok? Like, Samson and her Dad seem like jerks, for sure, but how is it Samson\u2019s fault she crashed a motorcycle when he wasn\u2019t around? I was totally on your side before that, Delia! She walks out on him, so he heads off to talk to Peter\u2019s class. But he loses control again. Then he rips out of his clothes, says no one can control him, and\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026and this dingus smashes through who knows how many floors of the science building at ESU to make himself feel better while launching into orbit, I guess. Frank Springer is not concerned with realism in any way. Guys, I hate Doc Samson. We see two guys who obviously used the ray on Samson in a window worrying what he\u2019ll do, and then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I begin to think Frank Springer has gone AWOL on this job, and Mike W. Barr is desperately trying to salvage it. Look at Spider-Man working really hard to make it not seem batshit crazy what Samson\u2019s doing right now. Holy crap. Spidey corrals the goons. Samson thinks Peter Parker set him up because no one else knew he\u2019d be talking to Peter\u2019s class, as if no one else could see him walking in there. Spider-Man figures Delia is setting him up. Then The Rhino attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Samson just gets knocked out for his troubles (Who cares who\u2019s fought him \u201cmost recently?\u201d) so it\u2019s time for a classic Spidey vs. Rhino fight. Someone\u2019s hitting Samson with the ray right now, making him weak, and while Spidey dances with his old enemy…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man knocked out, Delia loads Samson into a helicopter and makes off with him. Wow, this is a weird one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh no. Oooooh no. Oh this is so bad. Samson called her \u201cDelilah\u201d earlier. You know, like Samson and Delilah. And now she\u2019s got him chained to two pillars. Are you serious, Mike w. Barr? Are we really doing this? Also, not for nothin’, but I bet one American dollar that if, back in the lunch scene, she’d said, “Hey, how’d you get your powers?” he would’ve told her everything. Supervillains, man. Always taking the long way. Spidey wakes up back on campus, and makes himself a gamma tracer to figure out where Samson went. Then Springer draw Spider-Man swinging, like, in orbit above the city for the 2nd time this issue\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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..and he\u2019s in the right place. Descending into tunnels beneath Central Park, Spidey find the AIM facility. Spidey finds and cuts the power to the \u201cmind-probe,\u201d then lays into the assembled muscle waiting for Samson to get his strength back. You can guess how that goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes. I would say too much<\/em> like another Samson, sir. Samson knocks out Rhino and then stops Delia from electrocuting herself to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aaaaalright. I still don\u2019t know why everyone agrees Delia driving a motorcycle into a tree because he Dad told her she couldn\u2019t is Samson\u2019s fault, but I am ready to be done with this, so that\u2019s fine. Whew. This was a rough one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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