{"id":21956,"date":"2024-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=21956"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:44:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:44:19","slug":"ppsm-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/07\/10\/ppsm-7\/","title":{"rendered":"PPSM 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Spider-Man has never had guest stars like this relaunch. This is kind of nuts. I make lists of who\u2019s in the issues for the drawings I make after each block, and the \u201cheroes\u201d column has never been longer than \u201cvillains\u201d before, sheesh. 7 months in and Thor, Iceman, the FF, Marrow, Spider-Woman, Black Cat and now Blade have all guested, and that\u2019s not even counting the cameos in ASM 1. This one\u2019s pretty interesting to me, tho, because it would\u2019ve been\u00a0 made several months after the 1998 Blade movie was a big, surprise hit. A Blade guest spot has a LOT more weight than it did when he was in MTU, Vol. 2 #7<\/a>. He\u2019s a bigger Hollywood star than Spider-Man in this moment. Wild. We get some surprising new information on page 1\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our old pal Jimmy Six? Returning to a life of crime? My money\u2019s on the 6 vampires beating the 2 mooks prrrretty handily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A car comes crashing through the window, and the mooks come out carrying that big trunk. I guess I lost my bet! But the vampires are right behind them, and then the lights go out, and Spider-Man is on the scene. He webs the vamps and then demands the goons tell him what\u2019s going on. He STILL DOESN\u2019T BELIEVE IN VAMPIRES\u2026 I\u2019m not even getting into it, at this point\u2026 and then they\u2019re besieged. Spidey momentarily teams up with the mobsters against the fangs, but he gets swarmed and is in trouble, and thinks if these are really vampires, he could really use a stake, which leads to hands down the goofiest joke I\u2019ve seen in these titles\u2026 in\u2026 maybe ever\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean\u2026 that\u2019s ridiculous. I can\u2019t decide if it\u2019s great or terrible. It could even be both! Spidey worries that he can\u2019t be late for MJ, then takes off after the goon. Mutt tries to shoot him, but that doesn\u2019t go too well, and then it\u2019s time for that sweet, sweet exposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mutt stakes that guy, then says the scary guy in the flashback was named Hunger. Hey, that\u2019s loser again already. Spider-Man webs up the entrance for the other vamps, then Mutt explains that Jimmy said they needed what\u2019s in this crate, and that\u2019s all he knows. And then, rather belatedly, our guest star finally appears on panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ladies & gentlemen, Wesley Snipes! Blade gives Spider-Man a chance to walk away and not disappoint his wife, but he naturally doesn\u2019t take it, and finds himself in a spooky pit with Mutt, Blade and a whole buncha vampires, who Blade mows down with automatic stake guns. Then \u201cHunger\u201d appears, and blows up Blade & Mutt\u2019s guns with his ill-defined powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mutt is made to stake his newly-vamped buddy, which further weakens Hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ya know, he really didn\u2019t. He coulda just let the expert handle it. But\u2026 that\u2019s the book, I suppose. They say I won\u2019t believe what\u2019s in the trunk, and I won\u2019t! I remember looking up Hunger and finding out his deal after PPSM 4, but I apparently forgot IMMEDIATELY. No idea. That\u2019s kind of embarrassing. The memory isn\u2019t what it once was. But, also, who cares? I guess we find out next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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