{"id":125,"date":"2019-07-04T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=125"},"modified":"2019-04-23T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T01:33:00","slug":"asm-215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/07\/04\/asm-215\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 215"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alright, let\u2019s bring this thing to a conclusion. Spidey & Namor are all messed up from whatever Wizard did to them, so Sandman and Trapster just start beating them up. They\u2019re in no shape to fight back. But at the same time, cops are investigating the hole in the wall at the hotel, and they see all this going down and call in a helicopter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey webs up The Wizard\u2019s gun for good measure, and the villains all flee. Namor is shamed by his defeat and flies away, but a persistent buzzing in his head is maybe literally driving him mad. Spidey\u2019s not much better, crawling back into his hotel room all beat up. He gets in normal clothes and goes to his new crush\u2019s room lookin for some TLC, but she\u2019s not there, just a crew patching the wall, and so, his preferred option gone, well, you know where he\u2019s gonna go. I don\u2019t have to say it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uuuugggghhhh, Peter Parker is such an asshole! He has friends, you know. Tons of \u2018em. Harry, Flash, Phil and Hector, to name but a few. But, no. He just keeps preying on Deb Whitman\u2019s affection for him. This stuff is gross. Grosser than I even knew. In Spectacular, \u00a0he just stood her up on a lot of dates. This stuff is a lot worse. So he sleeps in her place for 14 hours, and when he wakes up, she\u2019s bandaged him up, made a huge breakfast, and tells him he has tickets to a Broadway show, and he just leaves. He doesn\u2019t even eat the food! \u201cI\u2019ll call you in a couple of days.\u201d Peter Parker is the worst, oh my God! This is so bad. No, no time to be at all nice to Deb, he\u2019s gotta rush off to see what happened to \u201cthe girl of his dreams,\u201d as he calls her. But he doesn\u2019t even know her friggin name, so he quickly realizes he can\u2019t really find her. Duh. The hotel eventually tells him she\u2019s been moved to room 407, and since he thinks she might be in trouble, Peter decides to show up as Spider-Man. Oh, yeah, I\u2019m sure that would calm her nerves. But guess who\u2019s in room 407?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man, if Llyra really is the mystery girl, that will be logistically impossible and I\u2019ll be mad. In Atlantis, a doctor tells Namor something is wrong with his brain, and then he has a little recap of Llyra\u2019s career as a bad guy. He takes off to look for her. Back in New York, Spider-Man just crawls into the hotel room, and his new beloved is there. And then he\u2019s promptly knocked out by Sandman. When he wakes, we finally find out what The Wizard did to him:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, sure, just your average psycho-transference field. Got one in the garage. What was he gonna do if Namor didn\u2019t show up? This feels half-baked. Using the anti-gav disc, The Wizard just sends Spider-Man up into the sky to eventually exit the atmosphere and die. That\u2019s pretty cold-blooded. Lucky for him, Namor flies by looking for Llyra, and sees him floating away like a balloon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then the two heroes head back to the hotel and smash a hole in a second room this week. Namor punches the everlovin\u2019 crap out of Sandman\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While Spidey deals with The Wizard. Namor makes quick work of the Trapster, too, thanks to his new Spider Sense, but Llyra is not around. Then Spidey sez they\u2019ll need Reed Richard to get the Spider Sense back in the right head. Surely the Wizard\u2019s gun has a reverse button? I guess not, as we move our scene to The Baxter Building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That out of the way, Namor returns to the ocean and Spider-Man swings RIGHT back over to ol\u2019 girl\u2019s room. And she\u2019s there this time, and his Spider Sense is going crazy, and he ignores it, even as he gets woozy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s crazy when you can see signature elements of JRJR\u2019s art style in this early stuff that has carried right into the present. His stuff has changed so much, and Jim Mooney is kinda smothering him, but there are tells. Surprisingly Michael Meyers of her considering that yes, she is Llyra, and yes, the previous few issues did strongly imply she was in 2 places at once, and yes, this is very disappointing. Also very worrisome, why was she seducing Peter Parker at all? Do she and\/or The Wizard know his secret? What sense does any of this make? Spider-Man figures out she\u2019s been behind everything, but he can\u2019t do anything about it, because she\u2019s still got the whammy on him. Luckily, Namor just flies through the window and knocks her out, boom, no muss no fuss. He knew, even if Spidey didn\u2019t, that his neighbor was Llyra, so he came back to get her. And now he will take her to face justice in Atlantis. And Spider-Man?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that\u2019s nice, I guess. Maybe it wasn\u2019t entirely his fault. I guess he\u2019s been ensorceled since the first time he saw Llyra, so his even-worse-than-usual treatment of Deb was part of it. But\u2026 why on Earth was Llyra living in Peter\u2019s apartment building? Did she know he was Spider-Man somehow? What business would she have living in a crappy NY apartment building? No one says. I don\u2019t think it will ever come up. That\u2019s wildly unsatisfying. Also unsatisfying: This story isn’t over yet! We are 5 issues deeps, this is highly unusual for the period. Come back next time to see what could possibly happen next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alright, let\u2019s bring this thing to a conclusion. Spidey & Namor are all messed up from whatever Wizard did to them, so Sandman and Trapster just start beating them up. They\u2019re in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[9,154,209,246,18,118,245,240,247,101,2,242,244],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-amazing-spider-man","tag-deb-whitman","tag-denny-oneil","tag-frightful-four","tag-jim-mooney","tag-john-romita-jr","tag-llyra","tag-namor","tag-reed-richards","tag-sandman","tag-spider-man","tag-the-wizard","tag-trapster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4061,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/4061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}