{"id":16830,"date":"2023-04-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=16830"},"modified":"2022-01-02T21:25:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T01:25:47","slug":"asm-281","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/04\/24\/asm-281\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 281"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Time to wrap this up. Frenz only did breakdowns last issue, and this issue, he\u2019s down to layouts, with Brett Breeding credited with pencils & inks. Hard times for most of the Spidey pencilers lately. Christopher Priest says in his writing about being the editor in this period that he never shipped late, but that it was often close. It\u2019s interesting to me, tho, how much the person doing layouts still shines through a lot of the time, and this issue is a prime example. Comics used to be such a strange business. These days, line art is more and more the work of a single person, but the weird, weird alchemy of 2 people working together on it was fascinating. At any rate, Nel Yomtov also taps in on colors as The Sinister Syndicate have Spidey and Silver at their mercy. Everyone works together to recap the situation for 2 pages, and then Beetle is attacked from behind before he can deliver the killing zap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s always nice when someone randomly walks by your superfight and decides to help. As he makes fools of Rhino and Hydro-Man at once, Sandy thinks to himself that he doesn\u2019t care about Spider-Man, he just hates Hydro-Man so much he had to mess things up for him. Spite is a great motivator! Silver wants Spidey to just abandon their savior, but the point is moot as Boomerang and Beetle come after them. However, we cut away to\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I would like to see Jack O\u2019Lantern faithfully adapted into live action. Just to see that ridiculous pogo platform in motion. Think about how weird it would look to see him bouncing around. Meanwhile, at The Bugle, JJJ is upset that Robbie\u2019s still running stories about Hobgoblin, believing as usual that it\u2019s an open and shut case, Flash is Hobgoblin, time to move on. But Robbie is poring over some photos from Flash\u2019s arrest, sure something\u2019s not right, when he notices a detail that he says proves Flash is innocent! But before we can see what that it, we cut back to the fight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man can\u2019t let Sandy suffer anymore, and leaves Sable hiding in a car from the rollercoaster that was knocked down last issue, somehow now standing again (?) to go help him. Silver says she can\u2019t let Spider-Man die, or she\u2019ll be held responsible and \u201chis heirs would certainly sue.\u201d How could anyone possibly prove she was at fault?? Geez, these comics sometimes. Meanwhile, Flash Thomspon is feeling sorry for himself at his lawyer when Jack O\u2019Lantern bursts into the prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uh-oh! Hey, I\u2019m no pro comics writer, but when the Spider-Man plot is the least interesting stuff happening in your Spider-Man comic, I think you\u2019re messing up! Every time we cut back to the Spidey fight, it feels like filler compared to the other plots. At said fight, DeFalco keeps putting high falutin\u2019 dialogue in the mouths of mooks like Hydro-Man (\u201cMaybe it\u2019s time we finally found out who\u2019s stronger, the ocean, or the sand it pounds upon?!\u201d) as Sandman beats him unconscious. They talk about their long rivalry, but have they even seen each other since their initial meeting merged them into a mud man in ASM 218<\/a>? Also, why isn\u2019t that happening as they fight now? The answer is who cares. Rudimentary investigation indicates Sandy and Hydro-Man separated in Marvel Two-In-One 86, and haven\u2019t seen each other again until this issue. And that issue was written by one Tom DeFalco, so I feel like he should know this isn\u2019t some legendary rivalry. Whatever, can\u2019t ask him to get good now. Back in the more interesting plot, Jack O\u2019Lantern is very surprised to see Hobgoblin come crashing through the window of the place he\u2019s holed up with an unconscious Flash, ranting about how Jack ruined his plans and trying to kill him. Back at Coney Island, Spidey tells Silver to disrupt Beetle\u2019s systems by shooting his \u201cantennae,\u201d but he comically takes the time to explain his super strength is routed to a different system than his blasters, so he\u2019s not out of the fight yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elsewhere, Jack\u2019s down, but throws one of his assuredly-not-pumpkin bombs and catches Hobby offguard. Both of them limp away injured, vowing to win next time they meet. Back at the interminable fight, Spider-Man hilariously swings the webbed up Boomerang around on a web and throws him at Hydro-Man, but has to let Rhino charge into him to do it. The distraction lets Silver get loose, and she begins shooting Hydro with a fire extinguisher. The foam mixing with his watery body seems to mess him up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How is Spider-Man supposed to seem outgunned by anyone now that he\u2019s beaten Starlord unconscious? Of course he can beat up Rhino. He should be able to beat up anyone short of Galactus. Man, that story was stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And so, Silver\u2019s long partnership with Sandman is established, and Spidey loses as usual. But also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flash is in a rough spot, that\u2019s for sure. How\u2019s X-Factor gonna get tangled up in this title? It\u2019s dumber than you could guess. But we have to table that for awhile as we run with TAC for a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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