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Thunderpants eventually chills out just short of Two Heroes Fight Over A Misunderstanding and says he was trying to find Spidey and help him. He offers to buy him dinner, and Spidey agrees. We cut to Hydro-Man throwing a fit about losing that fight in his hideout, then back to the heroes, now enjoying a pizza in costume. Some really awkward examples of digital color in this issue, like that random gradient on Spidey there. Just outside, Hydro-Man starts flooding the street to get the heroes\u2019 attention. They must\u2019ve been fighting outside this pizza place. Attention achieved. Hydro-Man proceeds to embarrass both heroes this time, and then something even sillier happens. This is a random, nonsensical story. So Fish Guy has a giant \u201cmodified street sweeper,\u201d and Thunderstrike decides he knows how they can beat Hydro-Man. He antagonizes the watery weirdo and then lets out\u2026 I guess a lighting strike while in the water? Spidey calls it a \u201cthunder blast,\u201d like that\u2019s a thing. Well\u2026 that definitely happened. What a strange story. Five inkers clearly rushing to hit a deadline don\u2019t really do Ron Lim justice. But wait, there\u2019s unfortunately more! Spider-Man Unlimited is an oversized comic with several stories per issue. The 2nd feature is a Spider-Man\/Luke Cage team-up. Luke, who just goes by CAGE now, is much tougher and more 90s-lookin\u2019 now. This one\u2019s by writer Marc McLaurin, penciler Scott Kolins, inkers John Holredge & Keith Williams, and colorist John Kalisz. And it\u2019s\u2026 ugly. Like, wild ugly. Kolins would go on to a long career of making comics I don\u2019t think look very good, but I\u2019ve never seen on this bad. It\u2019s utterly insane, too. A blurb lets us know it takes place before ASM 390. Spider-Man is chasing Slyde. Slyde is a character in a \u201cfrictionless\u201d bodysuit, so he can, you know, slide around, and he\u2019s a thief. Spider-Man has fought him a few times. This is happening in Chicago? I guess Cage works there right now? Spidey thinks he was there for a convention, but he\u2019s also still sort of in rage mode like in the comics we\u2019ve seen so far? It makes no sense from jump, and makes dramatically less as it goes. Spidey boxes Slyde in with 4 web walls, and then perches on a lamppost to taunt him. How is helping a criminal escape keeping the city safe? What is happening?? Spidey and Cage fight, Spider-Man saying, \u201cYou don\u2019t mess with Spider-Man! Not anymore!!\u201d See, he\u2019s in rage mode. How did he go to a conference? Spidey wants to know why Cage let Slyde go, and Cage says he\u2019s funny. Then the cops show up. Cage is cool with them, apparently, and Spider-Man swings away. Then a guy introduces himself to the cops as Tony Reeves, Daily Bugle photographer (How many new photographers can The Bugle have???) in town for the photographer convention. He wants to know why the cops let the heroes leave, and they more or less ignore him Then he gets\u2026 pulled off a cliff? What is the geography here? I am completely lost. I don\u2019t even know where this page is taking place. And then it\u2019s over. Peter Parker is at the convention, which he thought would help him get his head together. He was wrong. This guy Tony Reeves shows up and starts mocking Peter and telling him his friend Spider-Man is a crook and he\u2019s a bad photographer and WHO IS THIS GUY? Then Peter literally bumps into one Micky Hamilton, Pulitzer winning Chicago photographer. Cut to Cage\u2019s office, where we learn Slyde\u2019s brother is being held to ransom by The Maggia, and Cage helped him pull the robbery earlier to pay them. The deal is once they get the brother back, they will steal the money back and return it. This is needlessly convoluted. We see there\u2019s a spider tracer on Cage\u2019s jacket. Then we hit up the convention. The amount of people who got work at Marvel when they clearly weren\u2019t ready yet in this era is astounding. Totally unprofessional looking books like this flooded the market. Look at Cage\u2019s insane head when they go to the swap for Slyde\u2019s brother: Had I been a couple years older, even I coulda been drawing for Marvel back then. The bad guys from earlier are the kidnappers, and they decide to go back on the deal and try to kill Cage. That doesn\u2019t work. Meanwhile, this jerk Tony Reeves is taking photos of the whole thing when he makes a discovery. Orange Guy (I forgot his name already) seemingly burns Cage to ash, then Razorwire gets his, uh, razorwire around Spider-Man\u2019s throat, but Slyde saves him. Slyde begs Spidey to save his brother, and then he gets the razorwire around his throat. But then Slyde\u2019s brother starts calling for him, because Reeves untied him, but Reeves is mad at him for it. Slyde does what he always does and double-crosses Cage, who gets smashed into the beam supporting the catwalk the other guys are on by Orange Man. Spidey saves the regular dudes, Cage beats up Orange Man, I\u2019m really over this. Orange Man\u2019s backpack is going to explode now Cage has messed up his suit, so Cage runs it outside to explode where no one less invulnerable than him will be hurt, Spidey putting up a web shield inside. This is the first and last appearance of Tony Reeves, according to the internet. Good. Behind this is a short story about Flash Thompson written by Tom Breevort & Mike Kanterovich, with more hideous art by Kolins & WIlliams, now with color by Sarra Mossoff. Flash is working as an EMT (Man,if I knew that, I had forgotten), and he runs into another former high school quarterback who hates him for beating him in a game that he believes cost him a college schoalrship. He works as a janitor at Flash\u2019s hospital. He starts leaving threats on Flash\u2019s answering machine and engineering mishaps at the hospital. Then the guy tries to fight Flash in the hospital and gets fired. Flash thinks that without some lucky breaks, that could have been him. The end. This book really tried my patience in a way I did not expect. The Flash story was the best one, frankly, but I was over it by then. I\u2019m not sure it was worth the 90 cents. It might go right back to McKay\u2019s. Perilously close to the oft-mentioned crossover now, but we gotta hit our first issue of Spider-Man Unlimited. Ninety cents! What a deal. 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