{"id":12844,"date":"2022-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=12844"},"modified":"2021-03-15T23:54:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T03:54:50","slug":"tac-113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/04\/28\/tac-113\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 113"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, this doesn\u2019t look like a fun one. This month\u2019s art team is Bob McLeod inking himself and Christie Scheele, so it’s gonna look nice, if nothing else. Peter David still writes. And he begins with Ernie Popchik, Aunt May\u2019s boarder who was recently cleared of wrongdoing after shooting those muggers in TAC 110<\/a>, rushing into the house in a panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I somehow always forget we transition to Nathan being mean to Peter all the time in this era til I come back to it. Peter\u2019s actually Spider-Man right now, shaking down a hoodlum for word on The Hobgoblin, and as tends to happen lately, that gets him nowhere and comes off as random and pointless. And when he\u2019s done with that, he checks in at The Bugle, where Joy Mercado and Kate Cushing (Still being called \u201cKathryn,\u201d but she\u2019ll always be Kate to me) strong arm him into trying to get Joy into Aunt May\u2019s house to interview Ernie. He doesn\u2019t want to do it, but Kate more or less threatens him with unemployment, so off they go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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80s hair for days. Meanwhile, Black Cat attacks some shady businessy dudes and a guy appraising a diamond for them\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I believe this is the first mention of The Foreigner, but it sure won\u2019t be the last. Meanwhile, we cut to yet another scene, as a very unpleasant man works on a \u201cdisintegrator ray\u201d until his son tells him the lawyer is here. While the man\u2019s lawyer discusses how to avoid his son\u2019s school alleging child abuse, the son sticks his hand in the zapper. But he doesn\u2019t disintegrate. He does develop a glowing hand, tho. This is a very busy issue. And now it\u2019s back to Queens for\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uh-oh. Peter & Joy are almost to the house now, but when they arrive, they find it cordoned off by the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nice to see Keating getting a bit of screen time. There is suddenly a gunshot. Peter wants to slip away and become Spider-Man, but MJ begs him not to, saying he\u2019s too involved and he\u2019ll mess up with May\u2019s life on the line. Maybe so. But, as one of the goons is taunting the old folks inside, Aunt May slaps him, and that escalates things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey sneaks around until he finds one goon taking Mr. Chekov to the bathroom and webs him up and knocks him out. Downstairs, the leader kicks Nathan\u2019s wheelchair over when he won\u2019t stop calling him a hoodlum (These old folks need to stop trying to get shot), and then Ernie starts trying to reason with him. He says he feels bad about shooting them, they they\u2019re victims like he was, and explains his position. But before that can pass or fail, a thump from upstairs makes the leader think the cops have gotten in sond how and get tense again. Upstairs, Spidey webs the mouth of the goon guarding the perpetually arguing Palmeros, allowing Vic to knock the guy out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The leader, John (They\u2019re all named for The Beatles, you see), is freaking out downstairs when Spider-Man leaps down into the room and webs his gun. Spidey says it\u2019s over, but Nathan says it\u2019 snot, and opens the blinds so a police sniper can see in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that was crazy, Nathan. My goodness. Ya know, this would\u2019ve been a much nicer way to get him and May split up than his crappy death later. But, you can\u2019t win \u2018em all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, this doesn\u2019t look like a fun one. This month\u2019s art team is Bob McLeod inking himself and Christie Scheele, so it’s gonna look nice, if nothing else. Peter David still writes….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[36,35,156,191,332,403,286,215,21,164,333,121,2],"class_list":["post-12844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-aunt-anna","tag-aunt-may","tag-black-cat","tag-bob-mcleod","tag-christie-scheele","tag-joy-mercado","tag-kate-cushing","tag-lt-keating","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-nathan-lubensky","tag-peter-david","tag-spectacular-spider-man","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844","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=12844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12845,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844\/revisions\/12845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}