{"id":13924,"date":"2022-07-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=13924"},"modified":"2021-04-30T13:14:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T17:14:57","slug":"ss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/07\/26\/ss-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SS 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When times are at their darkest, John Romita, Jr. always reappears to give me something to enjoy during the 90s, and behold, he returns. Scarlet Spider #2 is the actual debut of Spider-Man\u2019s new creative team of Howard Mackie, Romita, the legendary Al Williamson, and Kevin Tinsley. This issue opens with Doc Ock\u2019s goon, Martinez, leading the undercover guy to be caught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This guy went undercover with his real name???<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They prepare to do whatever to Wade, digitize him, probably, and we cut to Scarlet Spider\u2026 hitching a ride on the bottom of a jet, which seems wildly unsafe. Seward has given him a lead on where Doc Ock is, and he\u2019s old school web-parachuting down to check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, ok. She\u2019s the one I thought was Rachel. In  my defense, in that issue, they had the exact same hair. Meanwhile, presumably inside, Doc Ock is telling Wade that they\u2019re \u201cdownloading all the data they have\u201d about Scarlet Spider directly into his brain, and he\u2019s gonna help them ruin Scarlet\u2019s rep. Her mystery ally says Wade can\u2019t hear her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, now the guy\u2019s revealed, and I still don\u2019t know who he is. Kinda looks like the X-Men villain Exodus, but that wouldn\u2019t make any sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even this stupid cyberspace nonsense looks cool with JRJR at the boards! Romita, Jr. fanblog is back! Outside, The Briggs person is threatening to shoot Scarlet if he tries to go inside, but then inside explodes, and he has to dive her to safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uuuuugghhhhhh, why did they need this guy\u2019s brain to do this stupid nonsense??? Ugh. I am so ready to be done with this crap. In \u201ccyberspace,\u201d we learn they\u2019ve just lost control of Wade\u2019s Scarlet doppleganger, but they\u2019re not too concerned. While Ock goes to make sure that goes ok, \u201cMaster Programmer\u201d decides to deal with Seward, finally. We cut to Tso and Smythe having a pretty inconsequential conversation that ends with Tso wondering why Ben Reilly didn\u2019t come to work (Why does he keep going to work for an obvious mob guy?!!?!?!?!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We got a mini-clone saga on our hands within the regular clone saga. How delightful. Back at her base, Ock has her goons wheel Wade, encased in some truly insane Romita, Jr. machinery, into a room with a similarly entangled person, and they can talk with each other, even tho Wade\u2019s supposed to be controlling a \u201csolid hologram\u201d Scarlet Spider right now? Anyway, his roommate is Stunner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh yeah! Ok! I had completely forgotten why Stunner disappeared from time to time. Surely this wasn\u2019t the original plan. She was Doc Ock\u2019s girlfriend and she was just a hologram? I dunno, man. Once again, the politics of Stunner are something I don\u2019t even wanna get into. How\u2019s the hologram webbing things up? He\u2019s managed to web the entire Daily Bugle building, and he\u2019s in the process of pulling it down to bits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cover justified, time to wrap up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hard to believe they\u2019ll finish all this up next post. A lot of nonsense up in the air. But I guess we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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