{"id":14543,"date":"2022-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=14543"},"modified":"2021-06-06T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T16:15:12","slug":"mtu-vol-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/09\/16\/mtu-vol-2-1\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU Vol. 2 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yes, just 3 months since the cancellation of Spider-Man Team-Up, Marvel Team-Up rides again. Briefly. And the very same month as the end of Untold Tales of Spider-Man, a comic we\u2019ll see elsewhere which was drawn by Pat Olliffe, Pat Olliffe has jumped to another Spider-Title. Either he loves Spider-Man, or editorial loves him on Spider-Man, or both. I feel like he\u2019s got a lot of detractors among fans, but I always enjoyed his stuff in Untold Tales and haven\u2019t seen much of it elsewhere. Including here. I must say ol\u2019 Spidey\u2019s looking kinda wonky. I actually forgot this title existed, and my issues of it are the most recently acquired comics on the blog to date by far. \/And we get things started with Generation X! Boy, what a weird gaggle of characters they were. The guy on the left is called Skin. His power is he has too much skin. On the right we have Husk. She literally rips her skin off to become something else underneath at regular intervals. I mean\u2026 what? Wild. Husk is also the little sister of Cannonball, who\u2019s appeared on the blog a few times. Anyway, this series is written by Tom Peyer with pencils by Olliffe, inks by the god Al Williamson and colors by Tom Smith. Wonder why Al stopped inking Romita, Jr. I assumed he\u2019d retired or something. Anyway. Story begins with Spider-Man having just defeated some guy, and a note that mentions how this seems like the end of a story, but it\u2019s just beginning. Our man says, \u201cOooh! Bad luck, Blare! Your crazy sonic bombs just trashed your own pad!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Olliffe has just spent 2 years drawing the circa 1960s cast, so it\u2019s interesting to see him updating everyone. As Robbie refuses to fire anyone, Peter suggests they send him to LA to cover this, and is kicked out of JJJ\u2019s office. Time to meet our other heroes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, these guys are fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uh, ok. Well, Chamber is British or Irish or Scottish, I don\u2019t remember, and the bottom half of his face is just fire. I\u2019m sure that\u2019ll come up later. I bought, I dunno, 3 issues of Generation X, I am not an expert on them, but this is a pretty high level of bickering. This team is co-parented by Emma Frost, the White Queen, and Banshee, who we\u2019ve seen around here a few times. They have other teammates, but I guess they didn\u2019t want to overcrowd this book. Meanwhile in New York, MJ is not happy Peter wants to max out \u201ctheir one good credit card\u201d to go to LA based on a newspaper ad, but he says this could be millions of Uncle Bens as Peyer and Olliffe recap his origin real quick just in case you live under a rock, and she relents. So that Blare guy isn\u2019t gonna factor in anymore? What a weird start. Back in LA, the teens are still bickering when an armored car crashes into the railing of an overpass and begins raining cash on the populace. When that inevitably starts to look riot-y, our young heroes get into costume. Except Husk, who tears all her skin off to reveal a new skin made of iron. That\u2019s how she does. It\u2019s maybe the grossest superpower in Marvel history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ooooo, we got a mystery man on our hands. Well, according to the gatefold in the front of the issue, that\u2019s \u201cThe Authority, a mysterious figure who is gathering information on Spide-rMan and setting up hazardous situations in which the wall-crawler must display his powers and abilities to save innocent lives.\u201d They gave the game away before the story even started! What a weird choice. Spidey and husk go back into the building to look for any more trapped people while Chamber tries to reassure the kid they saved when she gets scared of his fire face. And then the cops show, so they try to get out of sight, and we meet\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Major Love? Uh, ok. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man raises an uncomfortable point about Husk\u2019s power. Perhaps better not to lampshade it, especially considering she\u2019s supposed to be underage. Chamber destroys the missiles, and then Spider-Man and Skin head across the street to the bad guys. Major Love says the status quo has been killing these people for years, and they\u2019re here to speed it up. That they need to be put out of their misery. Quite a guy. Spidey handily dispatches the goons ad Skin threatens to kill Major Love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey soon senses the real threat: something is wrong with the money. He guesses it\u2019s been poisoned or irradiated, but whatever it is, it\u2019s gonna kill all the people who were fighting over it earlier. Skin suggests Chamber use the same psychic connection he used to calm the girl earlier to make people feel the sense of danger about the money that Spider-Man does. That\u2019s convoluted, but it\u2019s interesting. Spidey agrees to the scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Huh. A comic sending Spider-Man all over the world is not exactly gonna play nice with the rest of the line. Odd choice. I wonder how long this will go on. I guess we\u2019ll find out at least in part next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, just 3 months since the cancellation of Spider-Man Team-Up, Marvel Team-Up rides again. Briefly. And the very same month as the end of Untold Tales of Spider-Man, a comic we\u2019ll see…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[481,1277,13,26,1279,71,540,2,1280,1231,706,1278],"class_list":["post-14543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-al-williamson","tag-generation-x","tag-j-jonah-jameson","tag-joe-robertson","tag-major-love","tag-marvel-team-up","tag-pat-oliffe","tag-spider-man","tag-the-authority","tag-tom-peyer","tag-tom-smith","tag-vol2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543","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=14543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14558,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543\/revisions\/14558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}