{"id":17316,"date":"2023-06-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=17316"},"modified":"2022-02-03T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T02:54:08","slug":"tac-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/06\/14\/tac-123\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 123"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I reshuffled my schedule a little cuz I just felt like getting this era done. This is the final block of this period, the end of the Hobgoblin mystery. But first: How is Blaze back? Blaze wasn\u2019t even a real guy to begin with. I suppose we\u2019ll find out. Peter David is once again joined by Dwayne Turner, Art Nichols and Nel Yomtov this month as Spider-Man sees Black Cat\u2019s apartment explode? I guess? Was there a cliffhanger last time I forgot already?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man, how weird is it that we\u2019re looking at 2 periods back-to-back where Felicia has recently regained her powers and got a new (ish, in \u201892) costume? Comics are very cyclical. Their banter there is pretty good. Spidey thinks Felicia is even more athletic, graceful, and attractive than she was last time he saw her. Maybe the smoke is affecting his vision, considering the giant rat tail flapping in front of him. He then flashes back to tell us why he was at Felicia\u2019s apartment, which I appreciate. Earlier that day, he got a phone call from her saying that someone slipped a note under her door saying that she would be the first to die because she\u2019s Spider-Man\u2019s lover, and then the note \u201cburst into a puff of smoke and ashes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They approach the building, but find Candi, Randi & Bambi sunbathing on the roof, as they so often are. So Felicia yells \u201cRun! It\u2019s Spider-Man!\u201d and they do. That\u2019s solid. But as (The ol\u2019 Parker) luck would have it, MJ is downstairs getting out of a cab, intent on heading up and sorting out her relationship with Peter once and for all. A guy friend of her, Alfredo, pulls up in another cab, having seen her leaving her place and had his driver follow. But MJ has other plans and tells him to take off. Upstairs, Felicia is being typically aggressive in trying to flirt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hey, this bit repeated in \u201892, also, albeit in a different way. I never saw this issue before, but someone drawing a line in the sand and having Felicia stop being insane about Spidey\u2019s secret identity is nice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Improbably, absurdly, \u201cJD\u201d deflects the flame burst with his \u201cchemically treated\u201d clipboard, and this guy is gonna be Blaze for The Foreigner, for some reason. At that moment, Felicia has dragged Spider-Man to\u2026 The Foreigner\u2019s office. What, really? Saying he could help them. Spidey\u2019s not feeling this at all, and then\u2026 And then a woman runs, yelling that her husband has cheated on her for the last time, and\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Foreigner’s thing with disguises is BONKERS. The \u201cI have all your albums\u201d line is funny, tho. So, Foreigner tells them a guy called Kirk Donohue who wanted revenge on \u201ctwo costumed idiots\u201d who he infers to be them came in here looking for weapons, and of course, Foreigner told him no, and now he\u2019s acquired the Blaze suit and is trying to be a villain. Foreigner helpfully calls Kirk and sets up a meeting so the heroes can go surprise him. So the trap is set. Hard to gauge where Felicia\u2019s going with this. So, soon, they burst into an office full of TVs, like the cover, and Blaze, who says he had a feeling this was a setup and got insurance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Felicia sure is acting like she\u2019s not in on this. The guy shooting at her soon has an arrow in his shoulder thanks to a crossbow she happened to find, and she demands to know where that woman is. Elsewhere, Spider-Man dispatches his own guy, but then a noise (A scream? A high-pitched whine? It\u2019s just \u201cEEEEEEEEE\u201d) sends him running to find the woman from the TV, already dead. He finds the equipment to prove what they saw on the TV was a recording, and now he\u2019s furious as he meets back up with Felicia. When they go back for Blaze, he now has a small army of goons and a flame thrower, but Spider-Man just rips right through them, having been properly enraged by that woman getting fridged. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We can assume that\u2019s Foreigner in one of his disguises. That\u2019s a complicated con. A blurb in the letter page says this story will continue in the pages of ASM once its Gang War storyline concludes, but\u2026 that\u2019s\u2026 not true. Surely this\u2019ll get picked up somewhere, Spidey was just framed for murder!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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