{"id":21843,"date":"2024-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=21843"},"modified":"2022-10-18T23:24:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T03:24:28","slug":"asm-v2-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/06\/28\/asm-v2-5\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM V2 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s a big month as Marvel has finally run out of gatefold covers. They gave up on the recap pages months prior, sadly, just running 2 ads on the inside cover instead of 1 since, but now that\u2019s over. Recap pages will come back when Joe Quesada takes over in a year and stay in place through to today. The letter column for ASM 4 had the nerve to try to make you wonder who the new Spider-Woman could be. After 2 months of a superpowered teenage girl impersonating Spider-Man. Come on, guys. Seriously. Something\u2019s gone very wrong on this cover. It looks like the line art\u2019s not quite reproduced properly, and one assumes getting that really embarrassing 3D cityscape behind it played a role. I mean, full credit to Byrne for embracing new technologies and all, but those textures! Good grief. Without the webs, Maddie\u2019s eye holes seem even farther apart than Peter\u2019s. Neither of them even knows they have a 6th sense that guides them through life like Daredevil since they can\u2019t see out of their masks. Scott Hanna\u2019s credited with finishes on this one, rather than just inks, a role I suspect he\u2019s been playing for most of these issues. Well, we open on cops in a losing standoff with some guys in power suits. It must be said, because I try to be as fair as possible around here, Byrne\u2019s guys in power suits are way less jarringly of their time than the flood of guys in power suits in the mid-90s comics we looked at. These suits look perfectly reasonable. Unfortunately, these goons talk about going back to \u201cY2K Base Camp,\u201d so timelessness: destroyed! They\u2019re stealing gold so they\u2019ll have funds when the world\u2019s computers go down at the end of the year, you see. Ripped from the headlines! Then Spider-Woman shows up and starts taking them apart. One of them asks if she\u2019s Spider-Girl, and she bristles at that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Woman is most assuredly not here to stay. Jessica Drew is still not in the suit at this time. Julia Carpenter has quit the biz to raise her child. So the name\u2019s open at this point, but, uh, Maddie is not exactly going to be the next Marvel superstar. But, while Jessica Drew is out of the hero game, she\u2019s not just relaxing. She\u2019s a private investigator, and here she comes now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What could this mean? I\u2019ll give you a hint: It\u2019s stupid. Meanwhile, in Manhattan, MJ is in a flurry of activity as she gets ready to go on yet another modeling job while Peter eats wheatcakes and Aunt May frets, just in case you don\u2019t know the current status quo. Then MJ says she can\u2019t find her carry on bag and is just gonna use his, sending him bounding up the stairs in a panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That can\u2019t work out too well, can it? But wait, there\u2019s more Spider-Women to cameo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why is someone hunting Spider-Women? Especially since none of them have anything to do with each other, or even the same powers? Don\u2019t expect a satisfying answer. Peter stops in at The Bugle so Betty can info dump at him about the tip she got from a SHIELD contact that the other Spider-Women are in critical condition following attacks (She doesn\u2019t know their top secret names), and JJJ is freaking out about the new Spider-Woman, and he thinks she is Spider-Man\u2019s next target, since he\u2019s obviously behind this. But Peter is left thinking Maddie might\u2019ve gone after the other 2, and suits up to go looking for her. Remember Peter\u2019s new job? Or his college classes? Those sure were things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our man comes on the scene just in time to warn Maddie that she\u2019s about to get chomped by the monster she\u2019s not paying attention to, but then she does get chomped, and THEN she starts beating up the creature from the inside, to Spider-Man\u2019s horror. He dives into the remaining monsters as Spider-Woman emerges from hers and starts beating up other ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, they\u2019ve gone from \u201cMaddie\u201d to \u201cMattie.\u201d Ok, sure. An unseen form swoops in and nearly gets them, shattering the ledge they were standing on. Spider-Man saves Spider-Woman, but then the unseen form swoops again, separating them. The 2 of them are getting pretty beat up by their still unseen foe as they wind up down on the street in an alley, still under assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, why would a single brand-new, out of nowhere Spider-Woman appear, when you could instead have TWO? This is only the beginning of a 3-part story that\u2019s little more than hype for the already announced newSpider-Woman #1,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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