{"id":25642,"date":"2025-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=25642"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:39:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:39:42","slug":"asm-v2-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/03\/14\/asm-v2-56\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM V2 56"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Another thing about these Fiona Avery joints is they never got past 2 parts, as I recall. Real filler-type stories. The plot credit is swapped this time, with Avery getting first billing, and thus the implication of more input. We roll on Melissa coming to class excited to do well on a test, finding Mr. Parker barely awake and saying he didn\u2019t get much sleep last night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So\u2026 we\u2019ve leapt ahead 8 days and a lot\u2019s happened. Her brother was in jail last issue, now he\u2019s out and just missing? Rather jarring.\u00a0Also, her brother was Jack last issue, now he’s Joshua?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, now, Peter has kept teaching right past the bell (I thought they were taking a test?) because he didn\u2019t hear it, and Melissa wants to see him after school. We jump to that, where she finally asks him what he knows about her brother. She has jumped to the conclusion that Peter is the one who flunked her brother out of Honors Bio, which somehow has ruined his life (It seems like a stretch). When he explains he hasn\u2019t been teaching that long, all is forgiven. He walks her home, as he has been, and then catches her meeting up with the dudes from the flashback to investigate another lead. Peter goes to a courthouse to try to get info on Joshua, but only learns he was released on good behavior. As he leaves, he runs into Ezekiel again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why does Spider-Man have a phone? Like what purpose would that serve? It\u2019s not like he gives the number out (Sure woulda helped with that cabbie from Tangled Web 7<\/a>, 8<\/a> & 9<\/a>). Random. The thing about Peter looking for Spider-Man leads is not bad, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And we\u2019ll presumably never see that guy again. I don\u2019t remember, but seems a fair guess. So, then it\u2019s night time, and we learn that Peter webbed Melissa\u2019s window shut when he was there, like, 6 hours ago, so she couldn\u2019t sneak out tonight. He sees it\u2019s holding and thinks \u201cIt\u2019s not permanent. It should wear off when she\u2019s twenty-one.\u201d Did\u2026 did no one tell Fiona Avery the webbing dissolves in an hour? It\u2019s PRETTY WELL ESTABLISHED. Well, now that Spider-Man has turned Melissa\u2019s bedroom into a deathtrap if there\u2019s ever a fire, he can go Spider-Manning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lookin good! Spidey finds the spot and sneaks in, and the guys in there are talking like they\u2019re from another century. He\u2019s confused. Joshua arrives, and then Chekov\u2019s Spider-Man phone starts to vibrate. He manages to shut it off before it rings, wondering how Ezekiel is calling this number he didn\u2019t give him. Then it beeps loudly when he gets a message and he\u2019s blown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is ridiculous. So many coincidences, and the implication that reading Aristotle means you start talking like him is absurd. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter is suddenly telling MJ how all this happened. And, eventually, what happened when the siblings reunited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hey, this wasn\u2019t a good one. Awkward logic jumps, time jumps and a rushed ending. Yeesh. Filler indeed. Seems like a very strange use of Ezekiel, also. Well, I presume this was so JMS could devote more time to the big 3-parter starting next issue. Let\u2019s see how that goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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