{"id":21970,"date":"2024-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=21970"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:44:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:44:22","slug":"ppsm-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/07\/11\/ppsm-8\/","title":{"rendered":"PPSM 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Who doesn\u2019t love a good secret revealed? Not sure I\u2019m in for the demon, tho. Kingin\u2019s gonna get involved, eh? Man, how do I not remember so much of this stuff? I remember older stuff on a panel-by-panel basis, and this is all new to me a 2nd time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heck of a splash. One that really highlights how much Romita\u2019s art has changed in the last year. We flashback to Spider-Man, hanging from a web with a cell phone, waiting for a call from MJ, who I guess went on the vacation without him? She shoulda taken Jill, at least. I guess she\u2019s used to traveling alone with her job and all. Our man is very upset, not sure how he can make things right with MJ, desperate for her to call. But after a few false positives, the only call he gets is from Robbie. Robbie\u2019s got a job and Spidey\u2019s not getting any calls, so\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tricorp! Remember them? You could be forgiven if you didn\u2019t! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter tries to bolt, but runs into Blade, here for the chest Peter totally shoulda recognized. Then Peter has to dive Blade out of the way as someone shoots a whole rocket launcher at them. Seems a bit excessive! It apparently knocks them both out, as they wake up with state troopers standing over them. Blade flees, but Peter answers some questions, remembering the box now (?) and slightly recapping last issue. But one of the troopers worked for Fisk (No Spider Sense?) and relays Peter\u2019s name to Kingpin, who tells Jimmy to kill him if he wants peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I read all these Spider-Mans and some Venoms, and yet I still don\u2019t know what broke the truce between them. Probably Venom\u2019s starpower burning out more than anything. I think he\u2019s not starring in a book anymore. Might as well get him back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nooooope! Nope, nope, nope. Ya know what\u2019s funny, in my mind, it was Ben Reilly who dated Jill. hWhatever her name was with the black hair (I have genuinely forgotten), I swapped Jill in for her in my mind. So, finding out she was the burglar\u2019s daughter instead, I thought maybe I was just confused all \u2018round. We had Jill in the book a long time without this sudden, random swerve into a lukewarm attempt at a love triangle. I\u2019d begun to think I imagined it. But the hints have been dropping, and now they\u2019re leaning into it, and it sucks! Bah. Anyway, that night, Spider-Man finds Blade after he\u2019s found the chest, and he wants to know what\u2019s going on, but Blade tells him to deal with his own kind. He\u2019s not gonna listen, tho, so they leap into action, fighting a pretty literal army of Fisk\u2019s men, trying to get to the trunk before it\u2019s opened, but naturally they fail, and inside, we find\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s morbin\u2019 time! Why was he in a trunk? Morbius goes after Fisk, Blade goes after Morbius, Spider-Man tries to keep anyone from getting killed. Morby bites Blade on the arm and Kingpin zaps Morbius in the head wit his cane, it\u2019s pandemonium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cYou heard T!\u201d Good typo. Yeah, ok, Hunger is Crown. Somehow. Some way. I remember now. From looking it up after PPSM 4, not from back in the day. That doesn\u2019t make much sense to me. At all! So, we\u2019re told Peter takes Morbius to Tricorp to get help (??? He\u2019s a vampire! Shouldn\u2019t you do your OG move and take him to Reed Richard???), then he goes home, and someone calls the house, but hangs up. So he tries to *69 it, but that doesn\u2019t work, and then the phone rings again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ll tell you right now. I don\u2019t know what happens behind the scenes, I have no firsthand or even third hand knowledge, but I\u2019ll tell you this: Whoever that is on the phone, it\u2019s not who it ends up being. We\u2019re right back to Clone Saga territory. By the time this all resolves, it won\u2019t be what it was going to be. And it\u2019s going to suck so, so bad. It\u2019s going to get Mackie branded one of the worst Spider-Man writers of all time despite being great prior to the relaunch. So, you know. Enjoy! Then we get back to the first page, with Jimmy Six holding the gun on Peter. He says he won\u2019t kill him, but that he\u2019s put him in a bad spot with Kingpin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Isn\u2019t there always gonna be a war, Jimmy? Isn\u2019t the mob always about to have a war in the Marvel U? Peter is not having a good time lately. It\u2019s gonna get a lot weirder next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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