{"id":253,"date":"2023-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deweybass.com\/spiderman\/?p=253"},"modified":"2021-11-07T15:42:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T19:42:03","slug":"mtu-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2023\/01\/16\/mtu-69\/","title":{"rendered":"MTU 069"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of 77. Still Claremont & Byrne again, although now Byrne is being butchered by an inker credited as \u201cR. Villamonte.\u201d I note with some interest the library-looking \u201cMar 21\u201d stamped over the series name in the top corner. This one picks up with Havok & Polaris living on Muir Isle, recovering after various X-Men stories, when they\u2019re attacked by goons in ancient Egyptian outfits. Havok identifies them as the goons of old X-Men villain and our acquaintance, The Living Pharaoh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They subdue him & Polaris, leaving her to her fate and absconding with Alex, who they were sent for. Meanwhile, in the ESU science lab, it\u2019s 2am and Peter Parker is ready to stop studying and go to bed. Except he heard Egyptian-themed goons in a professor\u2019s office, retrieving \u201cthe master\u2019s ankh\u201d and talking about the other team\u2019s success in nabbing Havok. Spidey webs up the door so they can\u2019t get out, but realizes they have a flying vehicle outside. So he rushes in\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Real smooth, Spidey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean, I got a problem, I\u2019d bring Thor, if that\u2019s an option, but that\u2019s me. But he\u2019s apparently rushing off to appear in Uncanny X-Men #111, not this comic, so I don\u2019t know why we bothered with that detour. Anyway, Spider-Man has caught up with the goons, and when he sees them unloading Havok from an ambulance, he gets in there and frees him. Havok thinks these guys killed Polaris, so he\u2019s not in a good mood and begins zapping everyone. The goons are no match for our heroes, but their boss, The Living Pharaoh, is another story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spider-Man\u2019s dead! It could happen! Why is that lady calling to Allah? Shouldn\u2019t she be on the ancient Egypt kick? Havok is taken down pretty quickly, too, and then carted off to a mysterious device and some exposition\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, ok! I don\u2019t get why any of that would be true, but ok! I also don\u2019t get why all these faux-ancient Egypt guys talk like stock Muslim bad guys from the time. I really feel like they should be invoking Ra and Osiris and whatnot instead of Allah and calling people \u201cinfidel\u201d.\u201d But, what do I know? But, hey, it turns out Spider-Man\u2019s not dead, so he webs the machine and takes out all the goons. When The Living Pharaoh shows up, Spider-Man takes every opportunity to make fun of his terrible costume while dodging his blasts. But things don\u2019t go his way, as a punch meant to end this has the opposite effect\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Living Monolith. Which is to say, the same dude, only gigantic and gray now. The now giant bad guy has Spider-Man in his clutches, and things are looking grim!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of 77. Still Claremont & Byrne again, although now Byrne is being butchered by an inker credited as \u201cR. Villamonte.\u201d I note with some interest the library-looking \u201cMar 21\u201d stamped over…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[136,175,562,1445,180,71,1446,2,1276,65],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beast","tag-chris-claremont","tag-dave-hunt","tag-havok","tag-john-byrne","tag-marvel-team-up","tag-polaris","tag-spider-man","tag-the-living-pharaoh","tag-thor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15816,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/15816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}