{"id":18960,"date":"2023-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=18960"},"modified":"2022-06-05T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T17:58:10","slug":"tac-208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/11\/14\/tac-208\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 208"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is maybe the least Sal Buscema-looking drawing since he stopped letting other people ink him. Very interesting. Inside, we pick up where we left off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey quickly learns even his biggest punches don\u2019t bother these guys. The Shroud sets off a grenade in the van full of weapons, seemingly with him in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shroud\u2019s control of the masks only lasts a minute, and soon they explode out of his\u2026 shroud. You know what this is like? Cloak. Kind of redundant, these 2. Cloak\u2019s a much more appealing character, tho. Anyway, it seems the masks have used up their hosts\u2019 life energy to break loose, turning them into zombie skeletons, but then they completely run out of juice, and the masks start flying around looking for a new host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don\u2019t get why the 3rd mask has gone dormant other than because there\u2019s only 2 heroes. How\u2019d Cloak, I mean Shroud get the mask off the 3rd guy? Ah, well, Spider-Man\u2019s a bad guy now, and we cut away to Marla Madison on the phone with JJJ, who\u2019s refusing to come home from work. The phone call ends in tears, and she calls someone else, saying she needs someone to talk to. Who could it be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s funny how cyclical these things are. Once again, Spidey\u2019s old news. Not that it\u2019ll matter either way when Peter\u2019s given up on life in a few months. Right now, he\u2019s lost control of his life due to that mask, and while he\u2019s shooting eye beams at Shroud, he gets pulled into the darkness. In his mind, various loved ones are mean to him, the usual, and there\u2019s an oddly laced flashback to show us how this happened last issue. Spider-Man does a typical JM DeMatteis hallucinatory soul searching and triumph over despair in 2 pages instead of 6 issues and regains control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis isn\u2019t glasses!\u201d is pretty good. Spider-Man webs one mask into the other so they can\u2019t possess Shroud, then takes off with the 3rd one, and the others chase him. He finds himself in a construction site, and ends up doing something not too dissimilar to his solution for The Juggernaut back in ASM 233<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that\u2019s ominous. The rest of this issue is yet another backup. I thought that would end with JJJ reintegrated into the main story. Maybe this is for Sal. We\u2019re only 4 issues from him taking his only break on this title from 134-238, after all. Maybe he needed the break of not doing full issues, too. Well, this backup is drawn & inked by Malcolm Jones III and colored by Mike Thomas, and begins with Peter and MJ moving into their new place. They\u2019re being helped (As much as they can, anyway) by Aunt May and his parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MJ wants Peter to see the attic has electricity and a skylight. It\u2019s like a Spider-Man Cave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don\u2019t think they can afford this. And yet, they do. MJ\u2019s job dries up and Peter becomes \u201cThe Spider\u201d and quits working and they don\u2019t even lose the place. It doesn\u2019t make any sense at all. They could only afford Harry\u2019s place because he gave them a discount. Ah, well. Who cares, I guess. That\u2019s it for this block. From here, it\u2019s back to 1997. It\u2019s crazy to me that it\u2019s been over a year since the last visit. The Michelinie stuff maybe could\u2019ve been broken up into 2 phases or something since it\u2019s so very much longer, but that would\u2019ve caused its own problems. Ah, well. Only one block of it left now. Hard to believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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