{"id":22360,"date":"2024-08-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=22360"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:43:08","slug":"asm-v2-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/08\/09\/asm-v2-16\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM V2 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I believe it\u2019s now officially the year 2000. That feels momentous on my journey through time, getting to the 2000s. Story is credited to \u201cJohn Byrne and Howard Mackie\u201d this month, so who knows who did what, really. This issue is\u2026 well, you\u2019ll see. Peter gets home from Latveria to find the place looking packed up to move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think I\u2019ve rambled before about how a distressing number of people think Peter Parker being an \u201ceveryman\u201d somehow means his life should be a rolling disaster, but it\u2019s true, and those people seem to include a lot of comics creators, so there was certainly no way the Parkers were staying in their posh apartment for long. But this is so random and sudden. It doesn\u2019t feel like it was part of the plan. How long could Peter have possibly been gone? How could he not have had anything to do with MJ\u2019s financials, especially since she \u201cdied?\u201d Is he that irresponsible? I think he has a saying about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Remember how Anna was in Florida randomly? Now she\u2019s back in Queens? And they said MJ lived a globetrotting lifestyle. Now, as it SO OFTEN DOES in this reboot, regular programming is interrupted to hock some crap John Byrne is doing elsewhere. From the guy who brought you the terrible Chapter One, and the certainly terrible Spider-Woman, both of which got too much attention in these pages, comes The Lost Generation, yet ANOTHER backward looking project from Byrne, a 12-issue maxiseries detailing a whole gaggle of newly created superheroes from the 50s no one remembers for some reason. What\u2019s that got to do with Spider-Man? Absolutely nothing, but that doesn\u2019t stop a time traveling historian from the future, Cassandra Locke, who features in Lost Generation from zapping into the Tricorp Foundation today. She seems to be invisible, and unsure what time she\u2019s found herself in, but she doesn\u2019t seem to know she\u2019s invisible\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You see where this is going. Suddenly there\u2019s a security alarm, and she once again thinks guards are after her, but they\u2019re not, they\u2019re running to some big machine, about which she thinks \u201cevery single technological advance mankind makes from this day forward is based on the work being done in this room today.\u201d Seems unlikely! Seems basically impossible! But that\u2019s the quality of writing we\u2019re getting from the Spider-books at this point. In short order, the Ghost shows up, last seen on the blog way back in ASM Annual 2-, to do his usual corporate sabotage thing. Then Spider-Man swoops in to save Dr. Twaki and his assistant from\u2026 something\u2026? It\u2019s very unclear why they\u2019re in danger. Or how Peter knew. Or\u2026 or anything, really. Some security guards assume Spidey is the saboteur, but Cassandra yells it\u2019s the Ghost and points him out to them\u2026 and they see her? How has everyone been ignoring her this whole time!? Ugh, this sucks. The cops shoot some controls and now everyone\u2019s in trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If they don\u2019t want a shred of evidence left behind, maybe you shouldn\u2019t be saying all this in front of a room full of people, dude. Cassandra tells Twaki how to stop the explosion, and it\u2019s so obviously just gibbersh. You can\u2019t fake science like this in comics in 1999, but this whole run has been just goofy about it. Then Cassandra used \u201cthe time-warp capabilities\u201d of her belt to make Ghost solid. Uh, ok? Spidey knocks him out, and Cassadra tries to hide somewhere she can timeshift, but Spidey stops her, demanding to know who she is. And she tells him, and then vanishes as he\u2019s trying to ask about MJ, off to appear in Lost Generation, sales pitch complete. The security guards don\u2019t like Spidey being around, so he runs, and soon Peter Parker arrives, to Dr. Twaki\u2019s consternation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that\u2019s that! What a bunch of nothing! SURELY they didn\u2019t plan things this way, for Tricorp to appear in like 4 nonconsecutive comics and that\u2019s it. This era just feels like the wheels are coming off all the time. All setup, and instead of a payoff, you get setup for something else, which also doesn\u2019t pay off. But wait, speaking of which\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just like that! In one terrible issue that was half an advertisement for another series, Peter loses his house and TWO jobs on top of losing MJ. \u201cHe\u2019s just like me!\u201d In the past I\u2019ve sneered at the idea that Peter Parker, everyman, had literally every woman who saw him falling in love in the 70s, but now they\u2019ve swung so far in the opposite direction. This level of tragedy is not normal. And it\u2019s only just started! It\u2019s kind of astounding to me how this just ramps up. I remember this, obviously, it\u2019s pretty memorable, but I didn\u2019t remember it being just, like, a flipped switch. All of it in the same issue! Unreal. Driving off the cliff as fast as possible\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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