{"id":21761,"date":"2024-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=21761"},"modified":"2022-10-17T00:08:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T04:08:11","slug":"asm-v2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/06\/24\/asm-v2-4\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM V2 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Did this cover get zoomed in on or something? Feels weird. Trapster being cut in half is what really gets me, it just doesn\u2019t feel intentional. The opening splash and a following 2-page splash continue the battle, already on the cover, so we can do the flashback to how we got here. Hate it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cChum?\u201d What year is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Johnny having a thing for famous supermodel Mary Jane Watson is actually pretty good. Turns out, all of NY is suffering a blackout due to something or other in the X-Men books, I dunno. Reed gets the building on auxiliary power and Spidey sees a video feed of Sandman getting out of a limo. Ben explains that that\u2019s his \u201cpet project,\u201d due to him never fully believing Sandman renounced his criminal ways in Thing\u2019s own comic, Marvel Two-In-One 86. And\u2026 and apparently he\u2019s had a secret video somehow following Sandman\u2019s every move since? That\u2019s so terrible! And literally all he\u2019s done since then is try to be a good guy, joining the Avengers, working with Silver Sable, and they\u2019re still surveilling him??? What\u2019s he gotta do? I sthis because he\u2019s about to randomly turn evil again? I don\u2019t remember this issue at all. Sandy is with that Senator Ward guy who\u2019s obviously a bad guy, who\u2019s hired Sandy for protections via the Wild Pack after what happened in PPSM 2. They\u2019re trying to get Ward back to his hotel room in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doesn\u2019t feel like this can go on too long. Or end well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that seemed weird. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weird indeed. Up in Ward\u2019s room, Sandman is surprised by how in shape Ward is to take all those stairs so easily, and Ward seems to maybe be feeling around for how willing Sandy would be to returning to crime when their door starts to melt. Trapster, of course, with his solvents. Then Spider-Man shows up, saying he hoped Trappy would follow Sandman\u2019s example after SM 92<\/a>, but nope. As he begins to mix it up with Trapster, Sandman sucker punches him from behind, sending him right out a window and plummeting to the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ward fled while they were fighting, but they catch up to him, and are about to kill him when the Torch creates a wall of flame between them. So now it\u2019s the FF and Spider-Man vs. half the Frightful Four, a group the FF repeatedly beat without Spider-Man, and which Spider-Man beat at least once without the FF, and yet this is somehow presented as a difficult battle. But also a pretty short one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that was easy. Despite\u2026 them trying to sell it as difficult\u2026? But we\u2019re almost out of pages, so it had to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Can you believe they\u2019re doing this? I can\u2019t. I mean, I really can\u2019t. I knew they did it, I remembered as much, but\u2026 I still can\u2019t believe they\u2019re doing this. Beyond how stupid it is to try to create a love triangle between Peter, MJ & anyone, to have it be GWEN\u2019S COUSIN\u2026 awful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did this cover get zoomed in on or something? Feels weird. Trapster being cut in half is what really gets me, it just doesn\u2019t feel intentional. The opening splash and a following…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[1863,35,288,275,415,72,976,180,21,247,101,417,1872,2,1710,663,244,1600],"class_list":["post-21761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-amazing-spider-man-vol-2","tag-aunt-may","tag-fantastic-four","tag-gregory-wright","tag-howard-mackie","tag-human-torch","tag-jill-stacy","tag-john-byrne","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-reed-richards","tag-sandman","tag-scott-hanna","tag-senator-ward","tag-spider-man","tag-sue-storm","tag-the-thing","tag-trapster","tag-wizard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21761","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=21761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21773,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21761\/revisions\/21773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}