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Venom and his pals! Spider-Man who? This feels like someone was like \u201cKids like Venom & Carnage, we have to make sure their names are on the cover.\u201d \u201cBut\u2026 but they are, themselves, on the cover..?\u201d \u201cWe need the names!!\u201d Well, anyway, at The Statue of Liberty, Carnage is still torturing Venom, and Carrion is watching, and Shriek is not, which seems odd. And then Doppelganger and Demogoblin are smashed through the wall\u2026 despite it being, like metal\u2026 by Morbius and Nightwatch, who I don\u2019t think are actually that strong. Shriek is not here. Where did she go? Meanwhile, the other heroes (Minus Cloak and Black Cat, who I guess are still knocked out from last issue) are zooming around telling each other the plot, saying they have to find the source of the madness gripping the city. Saying, explicitly, that it\u2019s the only thing that matters right now, as if stopping the roving band of super serial killers has slipped their minds. And then they find the source. It\u2019s Shriek, standing on a rooftop, shrieking. But she was with Carnage. If she\u2019s \u201cthe source,\u201d how does any of this make sense? Oh, it doesn\u2019t? Ok, then. We take a look at the book\u2019s supporting cast watching on TV, MJ joining the others in time to see the heroes engage Shriek. Who\u2019s shooting this, they\u2019re right there.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite the fact that Shriek was, IMPOSSIBLY, holding off 4 superheroes all by herself, Captain America hits her with his shield and she is knocked out, boom, simple. None of the fights in this story make a shred of sense. Because if they did, it couldn\u2019t last 14 issues. Now the heroes are wondering where the other baddies are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nightwatch notices the sun is coming up and that\u2019s bad for Morbius, so he grabs him and they take off. Carnage tells the others to go find Shriek, then forms Wolverine claws for I think a 2nd Bagley issue in a row to continue menacing Venom. The fact that he\u2019s not killed Venom yet is completely absurd. It\u2019s so obvious Venom is still alive solely because he\u2019s a main character. And the other heroes, too, for that matter, as many times as the villains have had them dead to rights and just left in this miserable nonsense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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10 MB of RAM and an 80 MB harddrive! State of the art! Iron Fist happening to find a martial artist to shame is so, so funny. And would the general public really know who Deathlok is??? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey\u2019s got his groove back. Which is good, since his wavering faith was entirely unconvincing. Which isn\u2019t to say it couldn\u2019t have been convincing, but not in this story. Not in this complete waste of time. Shriek wakes up and finds herself webbed to a pole, but Demo & Doppel show up and free her. So then Cap, Iron Fist & Deathlok rush in to fight them. The fight briefly goes the way it should, with Cap shouting orders and the heroes working as a team, but inevitably, Evil Team gets the upper hand despite being a bunch of losers. Spider-Man jumps in, saying he wishes they had some reinforcements despite it being 5-3, heroes, as a segue for us to go see Black Cat, who is so badly beaten she was sensible enough to go home (And feel bad about it), and Cloak, who\u2019s returned to the church where Dagger died, thinking he\u2019s sure the key to defeating Evil Team is there, but he doesn\u2019t know what it is. Gee, what could it be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, these 3 losers had Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Fist, Firestar & Deathlok \u201con the ropes.\u201d This is like 70s comics, when the most pathetic villains were treated like terrifying threats in the hopes no one would notice how lame they were. But the battle for the soul of the city, or whatever, has been won by the heroes. Sure are laying it on thick. I especially like \u201cWe\u2019re good people, most of us! I mean, not that guy, but most of us!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even MJ feels better! Maybe this is where she stops smoking, I can\u2019t remember. But don\u2019t worry, this dumb story has 3 more issues, it\u2019s not over. Shriek announces to no one in particular that she\u2019s been whipping the city into a frenzy largely without even trying up to this point, and begins to glow white with energy as she starts trying to direct \u201cbad vibes\u201d on purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh nooooooo, how shall our heroes survive? Carnage has been torturing Venom for like two entire issues. This is absurd. But not as absurd as this letter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Haha. Your horniness is immortalized forever, Mel. I hope it\u2019s in the Library of Congress. I had a few fan letters published in the old days, and they\u2019re all embarrassing, because they\u2019re fan letters. I don\u2019t honestly recall where all they were printed. I remember the most embarrassing one, to the comic Top Ten, from Alan Moore\u2019s vanity imprint America\u2019s Best at Jim Lee\u2019s Wildstorm. Embarrassing largely because I misunderstood who was doing what in the art team and they printed it. But at least I wasn\u2019t drooling all over the ladies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Venom and his pals! Spider-Man who? This feels like someone was like \u201cKids like Venom & Carnage, we have to make sure their names are on the cover.\u201d \u201cBut\u2026 but they are,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[9,35,156,253,458,196,315,259,791,419,1627,12,625,172,339,21,1290,544,42,952,545,432,1289,433,2,409],"class_list":["post-18653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-amazing-spider-man","tag-aunt-may","tag-black-cat","tag-bob-sharen","tag-carnage","tag-carrion","tag-cloak-dagger","tag-david-michelinie","tag-deathlok","tag-demogoblin","tag-doppelganger","tag-flash-thompson","tag-iron-fist","tag-liz-allen","tag-mark-bagley","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-mary-parker","tag-molten-man","tag-morbius","tag-nightwatch","tag-normie-osborn","tag-randy-emberlin","tag-richard-parker","tag-shriek","tag-spider-man","tag-venom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18996,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653\/revisions\/18996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}