{"id":16711,"date":"2023-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=16711"},"modified":"2021-12-31T18:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T22:25:14","slug":"asm-279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/04\/11\/asm-279\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 279"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This month, ASM is by Tom DeFalco, Rick Leonardi, Vince Colletta and Bob Sharen. Some real highs and lows in that list. And this month, \u201cASM\u201d means \u201cAmazing Silver Sable, uh, M-something,\u201d because Spider-Man is missing. And Sable and some of her guys have just come upon her primary combat team beaten to pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leonardi and Colletta is a fascinating pairing. Vinnie is kind of shoring up the looseness of Leonardi\u2019s usual line, and it actually looks quite slick. On her way back to the office, Silver\u2019s assistant presents her with some orchids sent to her, which she immediately grabs and throws out a window, where they explode. The phone rings and a guy asks if she enjoyed the flowers. She says their \u201cold enemy\u201d is behind this. The next day, JJJ is furious because Silver\u2019s got a full-age ad in the paper trying to hire Spider-Man, until he hears that it was submitted with double their usual ad rate. He asks Robbier where Peter is, but Robbie doesn\u2019t know. And neither does Mary Jane, trying to call Peter\u2019s apartment from a soon-to-start Roderick Kingsley fashion show. She\u2019s begun to worry about her missing friend, and also isn\u2019t sure what their relationship even is right now. Me, too, MJ! And finally, we see Jack O\u2019 Lantern\u2019s reaction to the ad, confirming his goons beat up The Wild Pack, and he declares they can\u2019t let Silver hire Spider-Man, and they have to stop her, \u201cpermanently.\u201d This all looks amazing and I feel like I should be showing every page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Silver thinks about the always hilarious plot point that her company is the cornerstone of her country\u2019s economy, and the responsibility that brings as she walks. Can you imagine? How many people live in Symkaria, 22? That Silver and her gang apprehending terrorists could fund an entire country\u2026 so silly. Anyway, she happens upon a robbery, and things take a turn when the goons gun down a woman in front of her child. This does not sit well with Silver Sable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Those 3 middle panels are a little masterpiece. Silver goes home, tells her guys to cancel her appointments, switches into her fightin\u2019 gear, and heads right back out. She thinks there\u2019s no way she can justify taking a personal hand in this robbery, but that\u2019s not stopping her from doing just that. She takes off in a car, and Jack O\u2019 Lantern gets a call from an informant letting him know it\u2019s time to go after her. A quick cut to Flash Thompson in prison reminds us of his current deal, falsely accused of being The Hobgoblin, and wondering where Peter is since he said he would visit today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Silver begins tearing Jack\u2019s men apart in another crackling bit of action, and as they get spooked, Jack sends those still standing outside so he can deal with her alone. He ties up the hoods she\u2019s after and lets her stumble on them, dropping her guard for a sec, and then attacks. Silver\u2019s not prepared for a guy with a kit full of bombs and gas, and goes running into another room to smash up a chair and use the legs as weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The final page of this issue is the final page of WEB 18, reprinted verbatim, by way of kind of (kind of?) letting you know what\u2019s going on if you didn\u2019t read it. Man, this art team was great together. I wish Loenardi had done more Spider-Man. I love that guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This month, ASM is by Tom DeFalco, Rick Leonardi, Vince Colletta and Bob Sharen. Some real highs and lows in that list. And this month, \u201cASM\u201d means \u201cAmazing Silver Sable, uh, M-something,\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[9,253,331,123,276,2,124,382],"class_list":["post-16711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1980s","tag-amazing-spider-man","tag-bob-sharen","tag-jack-olantern","tag-rick-leonardi","tag-silver-sable","tag-spider-man","tag-tom-defalco","tag-vince-colletta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16711","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=16711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16712,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16711\/revisions\/16712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}