{"id":23293,"date":"2024-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=23293"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:41:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:41:55","slug":"mysterio-manifesto-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/10\/24\/mysterio-manifesto-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterio Manifesto 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sometimes it feels like, anytime something important is going to happen, there\u2019s first a deluge of random filler. In this case, Howard Mackie was a mere 6 months away from being removed from ASM at the end of our last block, and yet we\u2019ve only managed to see 1 more of his issues in the last 18 posts. And here\u2019s yet another random miniseries! And it\u2019s not the last one in this block, even! Marvel was really pumping out the product again all of a sudden. Another Spider-Man\/Daredevil team-up, even! Would you believe 2 issues each of this and SM\/DD were released at the same time? Good grief. As you can see on the cover, it\u2019s a Tom DeFalco joint, so that doesn\u2019t inspire much confidence. Also along for the ride is the great Lee Weeks, the greater Bob McLeod, and Steve Oliff, who is perfectly fine. Weeks\/McLeod should be an interesting pairing. As usual, I\u2019ve owned this since it came out and don\u2019t remember a thing about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oooooh, right! This is the book where DeFalco tries to clean up DeMatteis\u2019 absurd Mad Jack nonsense while also trying to clean up the recent Mysterio mess. This is what some people call \u201ccomics about comics,\u201d books who seem to mostly exist to address continuity issues. We being with Randy waking up Peter, as he requested, so he can get out there and try to scare up some new photos. Soon, Spider-Man is swinging above the streets. DeFalco is trying to do Serious Grownup Captions because that\u2019s becoming an in-demand thing, mostly about Peter being sad his wife died. Then we go find Matt Murdock losing a court case, but not sweating it because his client is guilty, and then Daredevil is swinging above the streets, being similarly maudlin about his own dead true love. Suddenly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weeks is now several years removed from a distinguished run on DD, and has become one of the great Daredevil artists in the minds of many people, myself included. But I gotta say, those billy clubs sure are tiny. Fun sequence, tho. Meanwhile, JJJ is heading home from the Bugle for the night when he\u2019s accosted by Mad Jack. Written extremely out of character, surprise surprise. He hallucinated a giant jack o\u2019lantern eating him and blacks out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why is this book on better paper than the main titles? That is so backwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI was present when he committed suicide a few months ago.\u201d \u201cYeah, man, we talked about it for like \u2154 of DD#8<\/a>, remember?\u201d Spidey then recaps his run-in with a Mysterio soon after that in ASM 7<\/a> & 8<\/a>, not bothering to mention their many subsequent battles, then remembers the old friend writing a book about Beck from the Webspinners story, and they decide to pay her a visit. Continuity, and nothin\u2019 but.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No more trying to seem mysterious and scary, no more intimations of an Irish accent. Why even do this if you\u2019re not gonna write him properly? We go see Betty, Beck\u2019s old friend, who apparently hooked up with \u201cSome Guy Named Joe\u201d in the 2 issues of that Webspinners story I happily skipped, and she\u2019s trying to market action figures of Mysterio dressed as various superheroes. What? That\u2019s so stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean who would buy these toys? We know they make normal toys of the superheroes in the Marvel U. So stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, Spider-Man and Daredevil are attacked by a bunch of mechanical birds and bats, an illusion DD \u201csees\u201d right through. The a bomb goes off, delivering some kind of mist all over them. And you know how Mysterio\u2019s mists tend to work\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe must be hallucinating! But I\u2019m gonna believe it even though I know that, don\u2019t you worry!\u201d I hate Mysterio stories. Well, come back next time for more of\u2026 this. At least the art is nice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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