{"id":18177,"date":"2023-08-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=18177"},"modified":"2022-03-07T21:35:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T01:35:28","slug":"uts-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/08\/29\/uts-13\/","title":{"rendered":"UTS 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now there\u2019s a cheery cover! And where this is headed is spelled out on the splash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I continue to be struck by how you get the Todd McFarlane feel from art that\u2019s not copying him in Pat Olliffe\u2019s interpretation of Spider-Man. Only Spider-Man, really, not the other folks, but it\u2019s interesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey comes to realize Sally is just expecting him to keep her safe every time she goes out superheroing, so he stands by and lets her get a punch in the gut. She goes down hard, and Spidey mops up the rest of her mess. When she demands to know why he didn\u2019t help her, he says it\u2019s because he won\u2019t always be there, and this is serious, and she could die. She says she gets it, that she\u2019ll quit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey leaps into action, recapping how Black Knight is another lame Ant-Man\/Giant Man villain (This Black Knight isn\u2019t the heroic version who\u2019d be running around later and possibly appearing on this blog, I can\u2019t remember) as they trade blows and quips. Meanwhile, Sally\u2019s got a new angle. If she can\u2019t be a superhero, she\u2019ll be a news photographer like Peter. She has Jason driving her to the fight, pressing him to be reckless and get there faster, dreams of fame and fortune in her head, when she makes him run a red light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am a very big Kurt Busiek fan and typically enjoy this title, but Aunt May\u2019s flip reaction to one of Peter\u2019s classmates dying feels super, super off. Not only should she be more willing to comfort Peter in his sadness instead of glossing over it, but what happened to Sally should have her utterly terrified the same thing will happen to Peter. Not could, WILL. She\u2019s Aunt May! She worries he\u2019ll catch a cold if he doesn\u2019t wear 4 jackets! Now his friend dies trying to do what he does for a living and she\u2019s like, \u201cHey, bro, it happens?\u201d This just does not play. A rare misstep for this book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man goes to save the girl, internal monologuing a lot of self-pity and self-loathing, offhandedly learning Black Knight is working for a mysterious \u201cbaron\u201d but not really caring right now as he tears into the goons. BK sees Spider-Man\u2019s kind of insane right now and runs for it. Spidey pursues him across the city, only getting angrier, dodging everything Black Knight can throw at him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey makes a web net below them, and once BK\u2019s fallen into it, begins battering him senseless in his own self-loathing and grief. We\u2019ve seen this kind of thing so many times. And he\u2019s stopped by The Human Torch, of all people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A lot of stuff going on in this one. Not my favorite issue, that\u2019s for sure. An ad on the back reminds me they had a retro X-Men 99 cent book, too, Professor Xaviier & The X-Men. I looked it up. Instead of doing what Untold did, it just remakes the original X-Men comics, with no real star power, while not being able to maintain a creative team, and is canceled after 18 issues. They would eventually let John Byrne do a book called X-Men: The Hidden Years that\u2019s more in line with Untold, telling you what The X-Men were up to during the period when their book was reprints. I hear that wasn\u2019t very good, either, but at least it was a better idea than subpar remakes of Kirby\/Lee material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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