{"id":15371,"date":"2022-11-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=15371"},"modified":"2021-08-28T14:07:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T18:07:06","slug":"asm-356","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2022\/11\/29\/asm-356\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 356"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This issue\u2019s star guest cover inker is the man himself, Jazzy John Romita. He didn\u2019t really take any liberties. It\u2019s most obvious in Punisher\u2019s face, of all things. As we enter the back half of this story, this really doesn\u2019t feel like a caper that requires so many heroes. Moon Knight, Spidey and Punisher apparently beat The Secret Empire by themselves in 3 issues last time, why is it taking so many people so long to wrap this up? The variou heroes spend the first 2 pages furiously recapping at each other, everyone unsure how they can find the baddies and Nova without Spidey\u2019s tracer, until Night Thrasher says he can always try to call Nova on their helmet communicators. Uh\u2026 why\u2019d that take so long to come up? Meanwhile, Dr. Franklin\u2019s still operating on\/torturing Midnight. As he finishes up, he says there\u2019s so little of Midnight\u2019s body left that most of the pain he\u2019s experiencing is just in his mind, which doesn\u2019t really add up with how he looks, but ok. The mysterious Nurse Church convinces everyone to do more stuff after Franklin leaves by showing her face, but we still don\u2019t see it. Is she the thought-dead Number One? Whoever she is, she says she\u2019s arranged a distraction. Then we cut to Franklin dropping in to see Secret Empire guys testing Nova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Franklin informs all the hooded doofuses of the security breach as the heroes approach. They all start arguing about who should be leader again, but with Midnight fresh out of surgery and the Empire\u2019s goons no match for a plane full of superheroes, Franklin suggests they pack up their things and abandon this location. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The boys prepare to go in, and Punisher tries to go, but he\u2019s all messed up and Night Thrasher has to talk him out of it. So he, Spider-Man and Moon Knight crash into the building and are met with armed goons. And ya know\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 about right. Very Stan Lee-esque business with the captions. The fellas continue charging ahead, and the Empire guys demand Midnight be sent into action, and also want to know where Church is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The heroes are almost to Nova, and the Empire guys order Midnight in, but instead, he comes into their control room, saying he\u2019ll fight the heroes if they make him their leader. They\u2019re not into that, obviously, but when the controls to torture him don\u2019t work, they seem to see the spot they\u2019re in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, then. Midnight\u2019s hair sure seems to grow and shrink a lot. At any rate, he is soon tearing into the heroes, Moon Knight first. He tries to reason with his former protege, but it goes as well as you\u2019d expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Midnight runs for it, and a big metal door slamming into place ensures the heroes won\u2019t follow. They hear a rumble that suggests the Empire is fleeing in a rocket again, and run back out to Moon Knight\u2019s ship. The rocket does, indeed, take off. These guys have a lot of money for such losers. Onboard, the Empire guys are still being jerks to Midnight, who reminds them he\u2019s decided he\u2019s in charge now. He tells Nurse Church they\u2019ll proceed with the plan to make a cyborg army, which he will control, and they\u2019ll take over the world. Hey, why not? Outside, Frenchie tells the fellas he saw their ship take off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The last 3 issues have just been the same thing over and over. Heroes fight Midnight, Midnight escapes. Maybe something will actually happen next issue. Over bagels?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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