{"id":127,"date":"2019-07-02T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=127"},"modified":"2019-04-23T21:28:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T01:28:26","slug":"asm-213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/07\/02\/asm-213\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 213"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We\u2019re back with the same creative team to see Spidey battle The Wizard. I sure hope this isn\u2019t as dopey as the last time he fought the Frightful Four. It almost can\u2019t be. We begin with a chilling rain storm\u2026 in November? Last issue\u2019s take down of Hydro-Man turned on the fact that it was miserably hot outside, and now it\u2019s a cold day in November. Uh\u2026 ok. A shadowy figure emerges from the water outside Ryker\u2019s Island with a big ol crazy looking comic book gun, internal monologuing about finding a man who can help them inside. I have just figured out how this issue and the 2 after it are going to go. Based on the last 2 issues and having already seen the next 2 covers, I got it. That\u2019s kind of a bummer, it would be nice to be surprised. But, anyway, the mystery person zaps HER way into the prison, and then The Wizard climbs out. He is still a jerk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The guards start chasing them in boats, and the mystery person didn\u2019t see this coming, but she did plan for it. Figure that out. A gesture from her hand and a big sea monster appears to attack the guards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cheesin\u2019! As we leave the scene, The Wizard can\u2019t wait to get to New York, and for some reason, he\u2019s gunning for Spider-Man. And where is the Spider-Man? He\u2019s at home! Washing his tights! For real, he\u2019s washing his Spider-suit in the bathtub because it\u2019s so itchy from the brine that got dumped on it 2 issues ago (You know, when it was super hot outside and not November).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, our man has used his considerable scientific genius to invent a product you can get in any store. He\u2019s going to let that soak while he goes out for the day with Deb Whitman. I\u2019m sure that won\u2019t end badly. But, as he\u2019s getting ready, his neighbor is terribly singing again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WHAT? The country singer is this lady? How could he possibly have thought it was a dude? Am I reading this right? And he\u2019s immediately fallen in love with her WHILE ON HIS WAY TO A DATE WITH DEB. Peter Benjamin Parker, you jerk. So he goes out with Deb, and they have fun all over New York in a quick montage. And then this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then THIS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, man. Peter Parker is a terrible person, y\u2019all. What are you doing, Denny O\u2019Neil? My goodness. So, uh, Peter goes inside and pulls his Spider-Suit out of the bathtub, and it\u2019s badly faded from the chemicals he used! Wah wah wah waaaaaah. I feel like this is probably what happens to everyone who tries to make their own detergent at home. As he\u2019s discovering this, the radio news show he turned on when he got in has an update:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This feels like karma to me, Pete. He swings off, allofasudden musing on how he sometimes doesn\u2019t feel worthy of his powers and thinks he\u2019s not a real hero, but that\u2019s cut short as he gets to the big robot spider. The Wizard is nearby controlling it, of course, along with his still-shadowed companion. He claims it will either kill Spider-Man or it will help a device he has to get the frequency of his Spider Sense, so they can track him anywhere. See, this is why you don\u2019t go around telling everyone about your magic danger senses. Spidey gets to the big bug and it\u2019s not doing anything, so he yells a taunt at it just to see what will happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He dispatches the robot with ease, but now The Wizard has what he really wanted, and Spider-Man has no idea what\u2019s going on. We cut to a totally random dude named \u201cWino Charlie\u201d deciding to climb up on a rooftop to enjoy his booze in peace\u2026 Look, I don\u2019t write this stuff, I write about<\/em> this stuff\u2026 and then we\u2019re told it\u2019s the roof next door that The Wizard and his companion land on, having tracked Spider-Man here. To his apartment. Uh-oh. Peter has just arrived on the ground, complaining that he\u2019s being charged a lab fee at school and doesn\u2019t know how he\u2019ll pay it. He walks past some dudes at the mailbox, more neighbors he (and we) have never seen before, and surmises one of them is his country singing neighbor because he\u2019s dressed like a cowboy. So it wasn\u2019t the girl? That was a confusing sequence. Peter decides he has to sew himself a new costume for the first time in years, and then Deb calls to try to set up a new date, except someone knocks on the door so Peter blows her off (I mean, what else would happen?), and guess who\u2019s at the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok, whether he\u2019s being creepy or not, that is a funny line in the 3rd panel there. We check in on \u201cWino Charlie,\u201d now passed out on the roof (Peter\u2019s roof or a nearby roof? I can\u2019t tell anymore based on the captions), then Peter is picking out nice clothes to go to the meeting when the phone rings. It\u2019s JJJ, and he\u2019s offering the exact cost of Peter\u2019s new lab fee if he\u2019ll go get pictures of a collapsed subway excavation in midtown. So then he\u2026 throws on his new Spider-Man suit, which he apparently made in like 5 seconds! You gotta be kidding me! He was sewing a nondescript piece of red fabric, then the phone rang, then someone was at the door, then the phone rang again, and now it\u2019s done??? Ok, sure, why not. He swings off to help the trapped workers, and gets pictures of himself doing it, all in about 10 minutes. Wow. Some very efficient superheroing. So he swings home, late for the tenant meeting, and sees The Wizard and Someone Else on the roof next door. He drops in, realizing The Wizard obviously made the big spider, and they start shooting lasers at him. No preamble or explanation. He ducks behind a chimney, and webs up a bunch of the bricks to throw back at his foes. Look at this joke:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As escape plans go, that\u2019s A+. Spidey, of course, swings to their rescue, and The Wizard and his Plus One retreat. Spidey rips a fire escape ladder off the building he\u2019s on and makes a bridge for his neighbors to escape on. No big deal. Except Wino Charlie\u2019s still over there, asleep and about to die. Oh, Wino Charlie, you lovable scamp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uh-oh! Next issue it\u2019s Spider-Man versus his own burning apartment! And, based on the cover, a whole lot more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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