{"id":23490,"date":"2024-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=23490"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:41:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:41:26","slug":"ppsm-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/11\/08\/ppsm-30\/","title":{"rendered":"PPSM 30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kicking this block off with PPSM because I think it just flows a little better that way. We\u2019re now firmly in the era where comics are telling 5 and 6 part stories, and there\u2019s no way the 2 Spider-books could be happening at the same time, so it becomes a matter of just deciding which story takes place before which. PPSM\u2019s new cover artist is Humberto Ramos. Historically, not a fan. I find his art pretty off putting, with the giant feet and hands and weird faces and all. Look at how much web he put on the suit. And yet, Ramos will inexplicably rise to be one of the most beloved Spider-Man artists of the 21st Century, alongside several other people I do not like at all. I guess I\u2019m just out of touch. \u201cNo, it\u2019s the children who are wrong.\u201d Who am I kidding, kids don\u2019t read comics, it\u2019s my fellow old people who are wrong. Inside, it\u2019s still Jenkins and Buckingham, with Wayne Faucher on inks and Jung Choi on colors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Randy is wearing a beret! At first I thought it was a kangol, I thought Romita, Jr. wasn\u2019t the only one trying to have current fashions, but no. It\u2019s a beret. What?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh-kaaaay\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maybe that is supposed to be a kangol. Elsewhere, some guy finishes 300 pull ups. Very popular number today. He\u2019s in a warehouse improbably full of superhero paraphernalia. Things he could not possibly have, like a Captain America shield, Mjolnir, a Fantasticar, Iron Man armor, Hawkeye\u2019s whole kit, and, incredibly, a poster of the Hulk \u201cGot Milk?\u201d ad that ran in Marvel comics a few years prior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s a long time! Meanwhile, Peter\u2019s answering machine picks up a call. It\u2019s lawyers representing the spouses of celebrities, and they want to help him sue MJ. Probably not interested. But Peter\u2019s up on the roof getting into his Spider-Gear. He\u2019s ruminating on how he\u2019s in an unusually good mood, how he\u2019s tired of lawyers calling, how his new place makes it easy for him to come and go as Spider-Man without anyone seeing, except maybe that lady\u2019s dog, who is watching him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hey, a new Spider-Man drawing. Those are rare in this book. I mean, it appears to have been \u201cinspired\u201d by the cover of ASM Annual 2, but I\u2019ll take it, especially since the 2nd Spidey there is recycled. Interested in this dog, tho. I don\u2019t remember him, you\u2019ll be shocked to hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This guy I remember, tho. Altho I guess not too well. For awhile, I thought he was the one who had MJ. He goes smashing through wherever he is and tells one onlooker to go tell the cops he\u2019s Spider-Man and he has a hostage, even as he turns into Spider-Man in front of her, and his mannequin turns into a real woman. Elsewhere, the real Spidey broods, in 3 recycled drawings and 2 new ones, listening to a radio on a roof until he hears about the hostage situation he\u2019s causing, and he swings off. Back at somewhere-or-other, the baddie (Whose name I remember and everything, but which hasn\u2019t been revealed yet) is on the roof of the building, staring down a police helicopter while holding his mannequin in front of an actual dry ice machine he\u2019s apparently brought with him, back in his normal suit. The cops are debating what to do and if that\u2019s really Spider-Man when Spider-Man shows up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are more new (swiped) drawings of Spider-Man in this issue than there\u2019s been in the last 6 put together, what\u2019s happening? Did someone notice? Did Bucky decide to be slightly less lazy? Still, he recycles one Spidey both these pages, plus one of his most-used ones in panel 5 on the 2nd one, so it sure isn\u2019t turning over a new leaf. Anyway, yeah, this guy\u2019s called Fusion, and his powers are absurd, but his mask is kinda cool. The superfolk keep fightin\u2019 as the cops make the stupid decision to get involved. Fusion magnetically steals their guns, so the various snipers and such open fire. There are no recycled Spider-Men on the page, but also no originals. Fusion brutally dispatches the cops. Spidey says he\u2019s seen enough to know he didn\u2019t have to do that, and Fusion says it\u2019s because of Spider-Man. 3 of 3 Spideys this page recycled, one from the ASM Annual 2 one earlier this issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And ASM Annual 2 one makes a 3rd appearance, and bottom left is a familiar face, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And a very familiar swipe in panel one. Save me from Gwen Stacy references.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well. This is not a fun time for anybody. In the letters, famous comics commentator Augie De Bleck, Jr. praises Buckingham\u2019s Spider-Man, specifically, saying he \u201canimates Spider-Man as few can.\u201d I sure wouldn\u2019t have gone that far at the time, but I was also a fan. Seeing the books a month apart made it way harder to spot all the recycling. This has been a jarring and disappointing experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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