{"id":184,"date":"2019-06-11T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=184"},"modified":"2022-07-31T16:21:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T20:21:22","slug":"asm-209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/06\/11\/asm-209\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 209"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alan Weiss and a whole bunch of inkers drop in for the art on this one, as Kraven The Hunter is lobbing a spear into a Spider-Mannequin somewhere in the Carribbean. He\u2019s with his main squeeze, Calypso, in her first appearance, worrying about his honor and feeling bad about what he did to Tigra last time we saw him (in MTU 67<\/a>).
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(It totally rankles) It’s cool, I guess, that he has decided it was honorless and lame. Calypso isn\u2019t so sure. And even though he says he\u2019s moved on from hating Spider-Man (You can tell by the way he\u2019s throwing spears at a mannequin dressed like him), she seems to want him to give it another go. And since they \u201chave to deliver a shipment of animals to New York,\u201d well, I assume he\u2019s gonna. Meanwhile, Peter Parker is being a jerk to Debra Whitman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Again. As usual. This is one of the weirdest storylines in the history of the franchise. She\u2019s pretty much his girlfriend at this point, he\u2019s not juggling a bunch of women like he has been, but he is SUCH a jerk. \u201cNo chance, Deb, your uncle is SCREWED!\u201d And then they always having him feeling terrible a second later but letting her walk away, anyway. Sheesh. So of course he suits up and goes off to try to find Deb\u2019s uncle and help him (Does he even know Deb\u2019s uncle?) down at the docks. Which brings him swinging over a certain shipment of animals, which makes Kraven nervous and Calypso excited. She runs off and frees a bunch of the animals so Kraven will have to use all his skills to subdue them. Real pal, she is. Spidey gets into the action, too, of course, leading to some pretty bizarre business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cYer basic vicious eagle.\u201d That guy is a crazy person. And that model is not Mary Jane. You might think it was Mary Jane, being a model with red hair in a Spider-Man book, but you fool, you. That’s just some other lady, and yer basic vicious eagle attacks her, knocking her off the pier. Spidey swings in and saves her while also catching the bird. I guess it really isn\u2019t MJ. That just seems unnecessarily confusing. Kraven has rounded up all the animals while Spider-Man caught a single bird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey sees Kraven helping and decides there\u2019s no reason for them to fight, but Calypso is pretty mad about it. She lies and says Spidey set the animals loose and then slaps Kraven while insulting him, trying to get him to fight. This lady is wild toxic. She talks him into it, but Peter has already headed to work, where he\u2019s late as always, and where Rupert Dockery wants him to make up a fake story about teachers sleeping with students at ESU and get pictures of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How would you even do that? Then Spider-Woman appears out of nowhere to tell us she\u2019s had trouble with this Dockery guy in the past and that we should buy her comic. Hey, come on, this is way too desperate. Anyway, in a weird page where the dialogue doesn\u2019t seem to match the art, Peter refuses, smiling like someone told a joke, and then Kraven bursts in demanding the paper print a challenge to Spider-Man to come fight him. Peter, still smiling, thinks he doesn\u2019t really have to go, but of course he does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s a pretty typical Kraven fight. Kraven starts using everything as weapons, from ancient spears on display to, well…
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I do not understand why people insist on using this dumb character. Only this time, he\u2019s got an appreciative audience. He gets Spidey with the Vulcan Nerve Pinch, but even losing control of his limbs doesn\u2019t stop Spider-Man from wiping the floor with Kraven. And then\u2026 the comic just ends outta nowhere. It looks like they ran out of pages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What? Got pretty philosophical in the end, there, Peter. Whatever happened to Deb\u2019s Uncle? The end, that\u2019s what. Not the best issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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