{"id":21116,"date":"2024-04-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=21116"},"modified":"2022-08-26T19:34:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T23:34:13","slug":"asm-439","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/04\/30\/asm-439\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 439"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I say I was a stupid kid, I mean it. This cover got me. I didn\u2019t read this book, I didn\u2019t like this book, but this stupid gimmick worked on me. Rafael Kayanan and Bud LaRosa are back for line art this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yeah. We\u2019re doing this. If that webshooter is a thousand years old, shouldn\u2019t this be the near future of the 2099 universe? And yet, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s meant to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A lot of inside jokes there. And oooo, 3D! The scientists name check the Kirby Museum and the Ditko Institute as places with actual relics of \u201cThe Heroic Age,\u201d saying now they have one, too. They talk about all the people Spider-Man inspired, and we see Spider-Man 2099, and I think the Spider-Man from his future from Spider-Man 2099 Meets The Amazing Spider-Man, and, in a rather cheeky move, Spider-Girl, the alternate future May Parker who survived SM 75 and eventually ran around in Ben Reilly\u2019s costume. One of the scientists wonders what he was really like as we revert to a rainy day in the present, where Peter Parker is feeling down about how his enemies always come back and whatnot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How funny would it be if DeFalco killed Spider-Man in this? Somehow slipped it past editorial. And the future scientists were like, \u201cYep, this is how he died,\u201d and that was the end of DeFalco\u2019s run. I would give him 10\/10 for that. The future people speculate that Spidey must\u2019ve been beloved in his time (How can they not know the truth when people \u201cpublish 5 or 6 books a month\u201d about him? Someone\u2019s not taking his last month seriously) as Spider-Man is chased off the scene of the accident by the cops. So he goes down the street and enters the sewer elsewhere. Take that, officers. The future people confirm there\u2019s blood on the webshooter as one of them takes up a page speculating that Spider-Man had a Batcave, a \u201cSpider-Cycle\u201d and a \u201cSpider-Chopper\u201d (Real missed opportunity to dredge up the Spider-Mobile). Meanwhile, he\u2019s in the sewer in the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oof! But shout out to Tom for at least giving MJ a friend again, however briefly. I don\u2019t think Shantal makes it to Vol. 2, but MJ sorely needed her own life for most of the 90s, and I appreciated Shantal. In the present, Spidey\u2019s still searching, doubting himself, worrying he\u2019s too late, but not giving up. And Kayanan is drawing a really cool Spider-Man, I must say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The last 2 issues of ASM were horrendous and I hated them, but this is what Spider-Man\u2019s all about. Good job to everyone for this sequence. Future guy asks future girl if she thinks the blood sample they found could be replicated. He says it\u2019s been a hundred years since there was a superhero, but the world could always use one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tom wound up giving himself a pretty nice send off, really, all my snark aside. I remembered this being worse. But, I was much younger then. Probably expected something different. Also young me hadn\u2019t slogged through the other 2 issues, they make this look like a masterpiece. And so, DeFalco once again shuffles off of ASM right before a huge event. He will write Spider-Girl, the aforementioned alternate future daughter of Peter & MJ, for years to come, despite it always being on the cusp of cancellation and even actually being canceled a few times, only to return to life. People loved that book, but only just enough to keep it afloat. I gave it a shot, but it was not for me. Well, we have 2 titles ready for the big finale, we just have to catch up the others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I say I was a stupid kid, I mean it. This cover got me. I didn\u2019t read this book, I didn\u2019t like this book, but this stupid gimmick worked on me….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[9,253,964,21,1843,2,124],"class_list":["post-21116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-amazing-spider-man","tag-bob-sharen","tag-bud-la-rosa","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-rafael-kayanan","tag-spider-man","tag-tom-defalco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116","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=21116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21117,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116\/revisions\/21117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}