{"id":2524,"date":"2019-12-12T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2019-05-31T15:46:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T19:46:20","slug":"arachnis-project-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2019\/12\/12\/arachnis-project-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnis Project 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ya know, I think  I had this one. I don\u2019t remember it, or how or why I had it, but I think I did. I have some theories. Anyway. Picking up where we left off, goons kidnapping Mikashi, goon about to shoot an unconscious Peter Parker. Then, a strange turn:
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Sure, why not? Apparently the sound of a .357 Magnum firing is \u201cKa-buzh.\u201d Who knew? Miho is suspicious of Peter, too, who finds the bug in the room and crushes it so they can speak freely.
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Peter leaves, vowing to bring her dad back. Miho says she hopes those goons come back, because she has plenty more bullets. Oh, the 90s. Peter thinks about how he\u2019s not really Peter anymore, he\u2019s Spider-Man, but he decides Spider-Man can still save Mikashi. Meanwhile, in the underground bunker The Jury was hanging out at, the Digger has brought back Sneak Thief. This is barely a Spider-Man comic. Everyone in it except him and The Jury is made up for this. I thought Mikashi\u2019s death sounded like the work of Styx, but it looks like Styx & Stone aren\u2019t coming back in this. I dunno, man.
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Casual racism toward mutants is real endearing. I guess this is our first look at The Jury suited up since I didn\u2019t bother to show the fantasy sequence in issue 1. Sentry, the leader, wears a 90s\u2019d up version of the armor the Guardsmen wear at the supervillain prison The Vault. Where he worked until Venom broke out and killed his buddy, who was the General\u2019s son, prompting them to put together their little taskforce for killing Venom. But it looks like they\u2019ve broadened their mission statement to include gooning for rich survivalists.  Sneak Thief is dragged to \u201cthe Detention Unit,\u201d which is made to sound very scary, but not shown. One of the men in black insults The Jury, and they respond as you\u2019d probably expect, and then Screech, the son of their leader, calls them all babies.
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This dialogue is killing me. Spider-Man calls Joe Robertson and 3am, and he\u2019s at work, of course, because everyone in this comic is always awake. Why keep time stamping everything if that\u2019s just going to make less sense? He tells Spidey to get in touch with a Vickey Danner, The Daily Bugle\u2019s DC liaison, for info about the area. The General meets with the heads of the Life Foundation, referred to only as \u201cMr. D\u201d and \u201cMr. T.\u201d Mr. D is both the coughing guy from the first issue and also Carlton Drake, dying of cancer and betting his fleeting life on The Arachnis Project, which is why Mikashi was kidnapped.
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4am! This woman has clearly been drawn eating dinner Why is it 4am?? The \u201cmystery man\u201d who\u2019s clearly Venom gets on a plane from SF to DC, then we look at Sneak Thief, who finds a tracer on her that explains how the Digger found her, and helpfully tells us she doesn\u2019t know how she got her powers or how they work. Great character. Then she gets to work trying to break out of the dreaded Detention Unit, which just looks like\u2026 a room. Elsewhere, Spider-Man busts out a dated reference I didn\u2019t even remember until he said it:
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That was a totally a thing in the 90s! I never would have thought about it again if not for this comic. Thanks, The Arachnis Project 3. Just kidding, I am not grateful. Spidey makes short work of the goons and then tells their driver to just send the distress signal he was undoubtedly going for to save them all some time. That\u2019s kinda funny. The Jury is dispatched to deal with the distress call, so they\u2019re finally going to do something in this story now that it\u2019s half over. The van is driven into the back of a semi trailer, which is apparently how The Life Foundation hides their goons on ops, and then our hero\u2019s Spider Sense alerts him that trouble is coming. The Jury have been given upgrades by The Life Foundation, and Spidey rips through the roof of the truck to see the all-new Fall fashions.
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I don\u2019t think I\u2019d call this an improvement, but it does make them much easier to tell apart, so that\u2019s nice. They all seem less protected by this gear, though. Who am I to judge, I guess? They start a running battle on top of a truck in the middle of traffic, and Spidey starts taking them apart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After Firearm’s anti-grav thing is broken and he hits the ground, the one I thought was Firearm based on the 2-page spread up there asks him if he\u2019s ready to join him in quitting, but Firearm warns anyone could be listening in. Then the truck goes over an embankment with Spider-Man on top.
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Ramshot is the one I thought was Firearm. No one seems to notice or care that there were at least 2 Life Foundation guys in that truck who are certainly dead now. They just net Spidey up and fly him away, To Be Continued. I can\u2019t believe they\u2019re pretending we don\u2019t know that\u2019s Venom coming from SF, and I\u2019m rather surprised he\u2019s taking so long to get here just for marketing reasons. This series has been\u2026 a challenge. I am not enjoying it. Its amateur hour quality, its pointlessness and its complete removal from what\u2019s going on in the regular books make it feel even more like an empty cash grab. I wonder how it sold at the time. I mean, I was a Spider-fanatic, buying piles of comics whether they were good or not, and I didn\u2019t buy it. I rather regret having done so now, even at such low prices. Ah, well. Too late! Have to see this through.
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