{"id":22285,"date":"2024-08-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=22285"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:43:09","slug":"ppsm-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/08\/02\/ppsm-13\/","title":{"rendered":"PPSM 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So soon after Venom? I don\u2019t remember this at all. MJ blowing up, I remember, obviously. This, nothin\u2019. This month, Lee Weeks pencils, Robert Campanella inks and Gregory  Wright colors.I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever talked about the weird, baseless connections between these artists in my mind here before, but to me, Lee Weeks kind of draws a little like John Romita, Jr. Not that you\u2019d ever get them confused, but there\u2019s something there, a shared something. And then Ron Garney kind of draws like Lee Weeks, but you\u2019d never confuse them, either. And Ron Garney does not draw like John Romita, Jr. Just a quality of really solidly 3D art runs through their stuff, maybe. It\u2019s hard to describe and kind of dumb, but it\u2019s a thing in my mind. All of which makes Weeks a good guy to sub for Jr. Weeks actually followed his landmark Daredevil run, even. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like you\u2019d never think Romita drew that page, and yet, that Venom looks more like Romita\u2019s than anyone else\u2019s. Carnage is killing Venom and Spider-Man in a baseball stadium for a cheering crowd, but he\u2019s just dreaming, of course. Cletus is still in his cell from when Venom stole his symbiote in PPSM 10. But, he tells a guard, he\u2019ll be whole again soon. But we don\u2019t care about that, we care about this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Remember when Gwen died, and Peter was all despondent and miserable while also still having to go be Spider-Man every issue? Hard to imagine someone going \u201cLet\u2019s do that again.\u201d But heeeeere we go. Not yet, tho, because our man doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s happened yet. He\u2019s swinging around thinking he\u2019s about to go home and tell MJ\u2019s manager to book him a flight to wherever she went so he can get their problems sorted out. He sees a bus that\u2019s crashed off the side of a bridge and is on fire, and as he leaps in to rescue people, all he\u2019s thinking about is the whereabouts of his blue shirt that MJ loves, which is kinda fun. He\u2019s saving lives on autopilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But, again, the real story is\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When did Anna go back to Florida? Pretty cool of Robbie and JJJ to be there, altho it makes you wonder where, like, Betty or Flash or MJ\u2019s friends are. Spider-Man\u2019s still at the wreck, recapping Carnage\u2019s recent deal, thinking Cletus is dangerous even without the symbiote, and then we cut to him painting himself red with the blood of some cops and rambling about feeling some kind of calling to be somewhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kasaday, meanwhile, is rampaging through the street, trying to make Spider-Man or Venom appear. A mook grabs him and is about to shoot him, because this is improbably happening outside a building Kingpin is having lunch in, but Fisk countermands the kill and just points up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doesn\u2019t much sound like Cletus to me. Taking all this way too seriously. Spidey punches him out and webs him up, thinking all the while that he\u2019s got to stop letting this stuff get between him and Mary Jane. As he swings off, Venom is watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let the misery begin! Nothin\u2019 good\u2019s happening for the foreseeable future. Also, the notion that these 2 titles are separate goes right out the window. When I decided to do this blog, I went into it dreading Maximum Carnage, The Clone Saga, this, and the year 2007. It\u2019s never fun to hit one of them. In the letters, a guy raves about Romita, Jr\u2019s take on Venom (Correct!) and editorial says they loved it, too, and \u201cnow what do you think about his Carnage?\u201d Um. Not only did he not draw this issue, but Carnage didn\u2019t really appear in it. Whoops?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So soon after Venom? I don\u2019t remember this at all. MJ blowing up, I remember, obviously. This, nothin\u2019. This month, Lee Weeks pencils, Robert Campanella inks and Gregory  Wright colors.I don\u2019t know…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864,1],"tags":[617,35,458,275,415,13,976,26,1913,1871,1914,2],"class_list":["post-22285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-uncategorized","tag-arthur-stacy","tag-aunt-may","tag-carnage","tag-gregory-wright","tag-howard-mackie","tag-j-jonah-jameson","tag-jill-stacy","tag-joe-robertson","tag-lee-weeks","tag-peter-parker-spider-man","tag-robert-campanella","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22285","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=22285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22297,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22285\/revisions\/22297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}