{"id":14407,"date":"2022-09-06T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=14407"},"modified":"2021-07-23T20:49:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T00:49:04","slug":"asm-425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/09\/06\/asm-425\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 425"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ANOTHER oversized issue! Sheesh! It\u2019s a wraparound cover. Here\u2019s the back:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On page one, Spider-Man saves a guy from a mugging while listing his powers for some reason, and then the splash is page 2, and also a very recognizable Spider-Man that\u2019s been recycled for all sorts of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Funny. Skroce missed 2 issues and gets a \u201cwelcome back\u201d tag. This \u201cSpidey in action\u201d is more ambitious and less successful than Skroce\u2019s last one, but still better than average. We get a page of Electro & Delilah trying to rob an armored car, but E is so powered up he accidentally blows it to pieces and fries most of the money. Back to Spidey, who complains he\u2019s getting a headache again. I just realized he\u2019s getting dizzy in the other titles and a headache in ASM. Not the same thing, Tom! He thinks about how MJ is getting irritated with how much Spider-Manning he\u2019s doing lately as he gets home, and their alarm going off before he can get in bed doesn\u2019t help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aunt Anna literally does nothing but keep barging into their room uninvited and almost find out Peter\u2019s Spider-Man. That is her role in this series. This is terrible. Why don\u2019t they lock the door??? We cut to the growing tension between Joe & Martha Robertson. Martha makes the rather reasonable point that JJJ was recently beaten almost to death in the building and The Robertsons were recently attacked by ninjas and maybe he should find another job. He won\u2019t hear it, tho, and she storms out. Team Martha on this one, Robbie, sorry. Then it\u2019s over to The Rose and Delilah with Electro in \u201can abandoned power station\u201d they\u2019re setting up as Electro\u2019s base of operations. Rose is miffed that Electro isn\u2019t living up to his end of their deal. Electro has other concerns:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You have got to be kidding me. THE SAME STUPID GAG THREE PAGES APART???<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I can\u2019t with this. Who could possibly think this was a good idea? UUuuugggghh. Back at the power station, Electro spends a whole page lamenting that he can\u2019t think of a good criminal scheme while also telling no one in particular he\u2019s a real contender now. This comic is really spinning its wheels. He gets so mad he blows the place up. Good job, dumby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is MJ turning into The Hulk? Peter is out skipping class obsessing over Electro, as MJ feared. He\u2019s acting pretty lame lately. He wants to talk to someone about it, and can\u2019t rely on MJ since she very smartly thinks his obsession is stupid, but he thinks he knows a guy. Cut to Rose & Delilah bowling and The Rose fumes about Electro. Cut to\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man, Skroce is really not pacing this well, and DeFalco isn\u2019t helping him out. All these quick, awkward cuts. Martha smashing into this college scene she\u2019s not in with not so much as a  \u201cMeanwhile\u2026\u201d Choppy and unsatisfying. Speaking of unsatisfying, that\u2019s every subplot the Stacys are involved. How is Paul Peter\u2019s tutor if he\u2019s got it in for him this bad? Man, this is the next page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s no flow to this comic at all. Next page, The Rose hires the True Believers to\u2026 hire someone else? I don\u2019t actually understand. Delilah is leery of working with people who were recently trying to kill them. Rose says, \u201cEven if it means we lose Electro?\u201d I\u2019m genuinely confused about what\u2019s going on with this. Peter makes it to The Bugle and sees Joe & Martha arguing. Seeing them argue, he realizes that obsessing over Electro for no reason to the extent that it\u2019s upsetting his wife is stupid. Uh, yeah! Then Ben Urich tells him an envelope arrived for Spider-Man, and maybe he can deliver it next time he sees him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I would call that a quite imposing building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s\u2026 kind of ironic that Skroce goes on to be a storyboard artist considering how terribly this is flowing. So now Spider-Man just shows up in a brand-new costume, which doesn\u2019t even get a hero shot to show it off? Surely a splash page was in order? DeFalco had him think \u201cspeaking of my costume, maybe I should make some modifica–\u201d before being distracted a few pages ago, and that\u2019s literally the only setup for this suit. Sheesh. Nate tries to shut down Electro\u2019s brain, but since \u201cbrain waves are a form of electrical energy,\u201d Electro says he can control them. With what, his brain? Slippery slope! And this somehow prevents telepathy. Whatever, man. They go blasting out onto the street and Spider-Man chases after them. Nate gets knocked out, so he was a lot of help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s the 3rd \u201cSpidey in action\u201d panel in this issue. Maybe too much of a good thing. Cut to a graveyard where some ninjas are stealing a corpse. Red ninjas, not green ones. What\u2019s that about? Too late, it gets 4 panels and we\u2019re back to the fight on the same page, with a 4th \u201cSpidey in action\u201d as he thinks he\u2019s on the verge of total exhaustion dodging Electro\u2019s attacks. He swaps to his new non-conducting webs and hits Electro with them. He blasts right out, somehow shredding Spidey\u2019s insulated mask without hurting the regular mask underneath or, like, his face. This almost makes a building collapse on some people, but Nate Grey saves them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok, we get it with the \u201cSpidey in action\u201ds already! Man, I\u2019m glad this guy only has 2 more issues on the title. Also, that was clearly a rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maybe he should become Rock-Man, as effective as that was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Electro is now so mad he\u2019s going to take out \u201cthe core o\u2019 the central switching generator\u201d and blow up all of New York. That sounds like a real thing. He plans to go down with the ship. Nate is about to kill him first, but Spidey gives an unconvincing speech about how he shouldn\u2019t have lost his temper, this is his fault, and now he\u2019s got to save Electro from himself. Uh, ok. He manages to stop Electro from killing everyone while trying to tell him he won\u2019t let him kill himself. And when that doesn\u2019t work\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kazakatwoom, indeed. Because we\u2019re almost out of pages, Peter meets MJ at school and they instantly sort out their recent quarrel, as if he didn\u2019t just watch the dude he was obsessing over allegedly die, and then his teacher comes up and tells him he should be more responsible. Wah wah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yeah, finally time to fix that mistake. How do you bring a guy who got his neck snapped on-panel back from the dead? We won\u2019t see it in this block, but it\u2019s not great! Much like this issue. A disjointed, choppy mess whose central conceit was just sort of dumb from the beginning. And it cost extra! Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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