{"id":16877,"date":"2023-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=16877"},"modified":"2022-01-09T19:52:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T23:52:32","slug":"asm-282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/04\/28\/asm-282\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 282"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The last of this blog\u2019s 25th Anniversary covers. We\u2019re treated to another issue by Rick Leonardi this month, now inked by Bob Layton with Nel Yomtov on colors. We open on Flash Thompson\u2019s lawyer being questioned by the press about his escape from jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lt. Keating! Uh-oh. It appears Peter has passed out due to the head injury from ASM 281 despite the previous post clearly taking place before this one. So much for the smooth continuity I was talking about. Meanwhile, at The Bugle, JJJ and Robbie are discussing Flash\u2019s situation, and we learn what Robbie\u2019s proof that Flash isn\u2019t The Hobgoblin is: He\u2019s not wearing the suit with the big stupid button on the chest when captured, but Peter\u2019s photos show the actual Hobgoblin was, and there was no time for him to change. That is\u2026 flimsy. Who knows, the button could just come off. JJJ\u2019s not buying it, either, and says he wishes Keating was out hunting Spider-Man, instead, when a TV commercial for X-Factor comes on and grabs his attention. So, in this period, the original X-Men, including a newly resurrected Jean Grey, are now X-Factor. They pretend to be mutant hunters, hiring out their services to apprehend mutants, who they then help instead. And here they are now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like so many great Marvel artists, Leonardi is about to get yoinked into the X-Office for awhile, but while he\u2019ll work on New Mutants and X-Men, this is maybe the only time he drew X-Factor. Their training session is interrupted by Cameron Hodge, their partner-in-crime in business who will later become the cyborg leader of a fictional country with mutant Apartade, because X-Men comics are bonkers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\u2019ll have to wait to get Scott\u2019s answer, because the next page is\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JJJ says either X-Factor rids him of Spider-Man, or he can expose them as frauds, so he has nothing to fear. He calls X-Factor vultures who\u2019re fueling anti-mutant paranoia, and makes it clear he intends to go after them regardless. JJJ is complicated. Robbie storms out, thinking The Bugle can\u2019t be seen to be supporting mutant hunters. He asks Betty if she\u2019s been able to contact Flash\u2019s attorney, because he wants her to see his photos, but she hasn\u2019t. Then they have a random, brief chat about how her marriage is in shambles just to remind you that\u2019s a thing. Back at Chelsea St., Peter hears the news about Flash on the TV. MJ says he\u2019s in no condition to do anything. He then pretends to be so weak he needs help getting to the bathroom, except\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man, I wish Rick had been able to do more Spider-Man. Elsewhere, Robbie catches up to the lawyer, who refuses to talk to him. Real nice, lady! And then we check in with X-Factor, on the hunt for the Amazing Spider-Man. Beast spots him and calls in the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A brief cutaway shows us Robbie once again catching up to Flash\u2019s lawyer, and this time forcing her to see he\u2019s trying to help. She\u2019s impressed, as well she should be. Meanwhile, even though he\u2019s barely conscious, Spider-Man continues stunting on the original X-Men, just like he always has in the past (In MTU 4<\/a> and Uncanny X-Men 35<\/a>, as we\u2019ve seen), overcoming Jean\u2019s \u201ctelekinetic cocoon\u201d and dodging attacks from Iceman, Beast & Cyclops. But no one\u2019s luck lasts forever, and Angel finally catches him with a sucker punch, accidentally knocking him into Jean and Jean off a ledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shortly, Robbie makes it back to The Bugle in time to find X-Factor returning JJJ\u2019s money, saying they\u2019ve concluded Spider-Man isn\u2019t a mutant, and is therefore out of their mandate. JJJ threatens to expose them all as frauds, but they just leave. JJJ demands Robbie begin nailing them to the wall in the paper, but Robbie says he\u2019ll do no such thing without facts. He gives JJJ his key to the executive bathroom and tells him to decide whether he wants to give it back. Later, Spider-Man wakes up in X-Factor\u2019s van. Iceman assures him they don\u2019t need to fight and tells him he\u2019s been out for hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No curiosity about why Iceman drives a van? Or where the others went? I guess Spider-Man IS dealing with a major headache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wrapped up tidy. In the letter column, a correspondent correctly guesses the identity of the man who will eventually be revealed as The Rose. The only problem with that is, Tom DeFalco originally didn\u2019t think The Rose had to be anybody special under his mask, he was just a new guy, but fans guessing who he was created pressure to put a familiar face under there\u2026 and the face tat will eventually be revealed is exactly who Tom wanted to reveal as Hobgoblin. It\u2019s all about to come crashing down\u2026 well, next block in this time, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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