{"id":13550,"date":"2022-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=13550"},"modified":"2021-04-11T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T16:40:13","slug":"tac-184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/06\/23\/tac-184\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 184"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

That\u2019s right! It\u2019s The Child Within: Aftermath! Harry sure stayed gone a good long time! This one\u2019s cover is barely attached and pretty badly rolled. I hope I didn\u2019t pay too much for it. Spider-Man lands on a rooftop at night, and a golden hand reaches out for him. It\u2019s the Molten Man, who is very upset as Spidey grabs his write and wrenches his arm away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Throughout the history of comics, No chimney in New York is safe from a super-tantrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Take that, door! Spidey is stopped by his Spider Sense, but no source of danger appears, and he says he must\u2019ve been imagining things. But we see The Green Goblin zooming away. He has dueling thoughts about how he should kill Peter, but Peter is his best friend, am I good, am I bad, yadda yadda. He once again thinks it hurts too much to be Harry. Even this is a concept DeMatteis will recycle with the whole \u201cI am the spider\u201d nonsense later. Not only are all his depressing hero comics unpleasant, they\u2019re the same thing over and over. And then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Liz\u2019s hair is a serious choice. Well, this is untenable. Poor Normie, poor Liz. Harry flies away, thinking that he loves his family so much, but they\u2019d never understand the pain he\u2019s in. Blah blah blah. But, as he terrorizes some people on the street, he thinks The Goblin has power and doesn\u2019t have to be afraid. Then he begins to argue with himself again and say he has to get away to understand who he is, but he\u2019ll be back. Speaking of understanding who you are\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, someone\u2019s sure looking a whole lot less monster-y seemingly for no reason! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Kafka explains to Spider-Man, who is also present, that she\u2019s finally been able to loosen Vermin\u2019s hold on Edward, which allowed him to start to change back. Which means a time is coming when he won\u2019t need Vermin anymore, and the Vermin personality knows it, and is becoming desperate. Thus, the threats are good news, in a way. Spidey is pleased to hear it, and about to leave, when he stops to ask about the night he showed up in her office sans mask. She says it was dark and she was half asleep, and she put his mask back on as fast as she could. Says she didn\u2019t feel it was right to see his face if he didn\u2019t want her to. Fair enough. But she says as he swings away, from what little she could see, he has a good face. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s that stock Buscema Spider-Man Ron Frenz blatantly used in Thor 447<\/a>. Our man recaps\/reflects on the whole \u201crepressed memories of blaming himself for his parents\u2019 deaths\u201d thing until he gets another big Spider Sense jolt, and he\u2019s sure it\u2019s Harry, but when he lands on a nearby rooftop, nothing happens. No Goblin, no fight. Back at the building he recently lived in with Harry, Mark has told Liz what he knows, and she is obviously a wreck, but at least she has him to comfort her. You know who hasn\u2019t been in this title for ages?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MJ silences him with a kiss, saying not another word, and they settle in for the night. But next page, Peter\u2019s up in his Spidey clothes and kissing her goodbye. She\u2019s not as asleep as he thinks, and thinks to herself \u201cFind him, but–\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Out of the grimdark faux-grown up frying pan, into the awful slapstick frying pan. I\u2019ve said it before, DeMatteis has 2 speeds, and the switch between them is jarring, but this may be the most jarring ever. Also, 7 months of \u201cto be continued\u201d in a row? This book isn\u2019t exactly playing well with the others right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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