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CYBERWAR! This nonsense is still! Going! Month 2 of the Scarlet Spider debacle comin\u2019 in hot. Look at that spot color. So exciting. You got the De Team DeFalco & Dezago. You got breakdowns by Tom Morgan. You got inks by Randy Emberlin, Hector Collazo and Don Hudson. You got colors by Kevin Tinsley and Chia-Chi Wang. Man, look at that lineup. It\u2019s almost like these things were scheduled on very short notice and it was an all hands on deck situation to produce them because the regular art teams had already moved on to the next Spider-Man issues. Guess what, Seward Trainer is still in \u201ccyberspace!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oy. This hurts me so much. This is now essentially just, Dr. Strange on The Astral Plane, only it\u2019s happening on AOL. Meanwhile, Ben Reilly is, I guess, searching for Seward in cyberspace, but has no luck and disconnects so he can furiously recap the last month and a half of comics He thinks about going to patch things up with Carrie, but instead, we cut to\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What\u2026 a totally anticlimactic resolution to that! How exciting! Tso is on his way to visit Smythe in person, and is shown a truly pathetic looking array of goofy \u201ccyber-slayers,\u201d but I can\u2019t fault the art team for how dumb they look considering this issue might\u2019ve been completed in a weekend, for all I know. Smythe helpfully recaps his entire deal, and there\u2019s no reason to get into it here since I\u2019ll be doing the actual comics eventually (Soon? I dunno), but he assures Tso that Doc Ock and her goons will be the perfect test of his new robots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ock\u2019s super-muscle looking all dejected is very funny. \u201cAw, gee whiz, boss.\u201d But wait, the cyber-nonsense is about to crank into overdrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yeah? You programmed that byte, did you? Did it do The Kessel Run in 12 parsecs? Again, it\u2019s 1995, there is no information about anybody on the internet unless Ben made a Compuserve profile that says \u201cHi, I\u2019m Ben! I\u2019m not a real person, and I have no credentials, please arrest me! Point your web crawler to \u2018IRS.com\u2019 or use AOL keyword: fraud to learn more!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About as authentic as this beloved gif. Also, I was one of the console cowboys in cyberspace! This comic is killing me!  Anyway, anyway. Ock knows it\u2019s a trap, but decides to take her Z-list muscle and walk into it if it means getting her precious chips. Also, the FBI plant in her gang decides this is the time to go tell what he\u2019s learned, and also some other goon sees him leaving and wonders if something\u2019s up. Who cares?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, I\u2019m sure most high schools had fully connected and extensive digital records in the era when people didn\u2019t even know what a modem was. I\u2019m gonna smirk so hard it hurts me. URgh, so Krannor gets a call from Tso, who says it\u2019s going down, and to bring all the goons to\u2026 The Children\u2019s Zoo. That\u2019s where this gang fight is scheduled to occur. Great. He gathers the troops, but wonders where Ben Reilly is. He\u2019s in his tights and headed to the Zoo, having been tipped off by his handy man-in-cyberspace, and he immediately enters combat with Ock\u2019s cyber-goons. Aura says this confirms he works for Tso, which is funny, and it\u2019s fightin\u2019 time. And, of course, civilians are everywhere, so Scarlet really has his work cut out for him this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tso says they should use the fact that Ock\u2019s goons think Scarlet works for him. Alistaire is horrified by the idea of \u201callying with a spider,\u201d but what\u2019s a Scarlet Spider to him? His dad, and he in turn, hated Spider-Man, this is just some jobber. It\u2019s like being mad at a celebrity impersonator of a celebrity you don\u2019t like. Anyway, Tso is thinking he should prrrrobably double-cross Smythe and take these handy robots for himself. Override shuts him down, tho. As Scarlet rescues some kids, the robots deliberately avoid attacking him to focus on Ock\u2019s goons and confirm that he\u2019s on their side for their foes. Until they\u2019re all unconscious, anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thrilling. This issue features a letter from Olav Beemer, a guy who wrote so many letters to comics in this time that he became something of a comics celebrity for it, himself. You can do anything if you put your mind to it! You may note that the blurb says there\u2019s going to be a Web of Scarlet Spider #3 despite this being a 2-month event. That\u2019s\u2026 a whole thing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CYBERWAR! This nonsense is still! Going! Month 2 of the Scarlet Spider debacle comin\u2019 in hot. Look at that spot color. So exciting. You got the De Team DeFalco & Dezago. You…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[386,438,455,496,413,430,936,1234,491,418,432,599,494,452,124,487],"class_list":["post-13896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-alistair-smythe","tag-angela-yin","tag-ben-reilly","tag-carolyn-trainer","tag-chia-chi-wang","tag-don-hudson","tag-hector-collazo","tag-jason-tso","tag-ken-ellis","tag-kevin-tinsley","tag-randy-emberlin","tag-scarlet-spider","tag-seward-trainer","tag-todd-dezago","tag-tom-defalco","tag-tom-morgan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13896","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=13896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13909,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13896\/revisions\/13909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}