{"id":17659,"date":"2023-07-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=17659"},"modified":"2022-02-06T23:46:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T03:46:29","slug":"tac-128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/07\/12\/tac-128\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 128"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Only 2 books to go in this final block from the 80s. We have one last thing to deal with in the whole Foreigner\/Black Cat situation. Peter David and this story were both weirdly absent from TAC while all the preceding was going on, but he\u2019s back to finish up. At a glance, this issue\u2019s cover is very similar to TAC 118<\/a>, both featuring guys on flying contraptions filling the scene with lasers as Spider-Man dodges. They don\u2019t really look the same, but are so similar in content that this issue made me go, \u201cwait, what?\u201d when I pulled it out. It would appear that, despite their defense of it in the letters, editorial caves on Black Cat\u2019s terrible suit, and commissioned another, also terrible suit. Why did she get Wolverine\u2019s mask AND old shoulderpads? Alan Kupperberg is back, inking himself, and Bob Sharen colors, and look at this terrible drawing hey introduce the new Black Cat with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sheesh, her hair is worse than the suit. What year is this, 1954? Anyway, she plays up her shock as Spidey recaps how he found about about Foreigner and Ned and all that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, JJJ goes to hire Silver Sable to hunt down Spider-Man. Same old song and dance, 9 months after doing the same with X-Factor. A bit tired. Not helping is Peter David really not getting her voice. JJJ offers $500,000, and Silver says 1 million, and he agrees. You really got that kinda money, JJJ? Spider-Man goes to the library of ESU, which looks like a Rubik\u2019s Cube, almost no detail, good stuff. He\u2019s there to harass the guys who created Blaze to find out why and how they sold their stuff to Foreigner, but they don\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about; say they destroyed all their gear and were shocked to hear of a new Blaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, well, look who it is. Man, I can\u2019t see Sin-Eater without thinking of the asinine garbage Nick Spencer did with him in 2021. You\u2019d think Tork was a Spider-Man character instead of a Daredevil guy, as much as he\u2019s been around lately. Well, if yer gonna invoke The Death of Jean DeWolff, it\u2019s only right that Daredevil appears on the very next page. DD wants to help Spidey, but Spider-Man still doesn\u2019t trust him after the gang war, and why would he, DD was wildly out of character. Matt says to contact him if he reconsiders. Spider-Man wonders if maybe he should get help, from The FF or The Avengers, but thinks they\u2019re as likely to turn him over to the cops as help, which seems pretty uncharitable of him. He decides he only needs Felicia to deal with this. Boy, is he in for a bad time. As he swings off, we see Sable\u2019s Wild Pack tracking him.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s weird that Peter David was so invested in this Betty thing, and yet he isn\u2019t long for the Spider-Titles, and doesn\u2019t really get to resolve it in any way until she gets into that cult in WEB 40<\/a>, over a year from now. Anyway, random goons are after Spider-Man like on the cover. He dodges and tries to escape, but they give chase. So he quickly disables most of their flying machines, in a pretty impressive display of his agility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well that\u2019s convenient. Even the story is related to TAC 118. Maybe the cover similarity was on purpose. Spidey takes that guy\u2019s outfit off and webs him up real tight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seems like we\u2019re all set to wrap this up next issue. We better be, \u2018cuz next issue\u2019s all we got.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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