{"id":25836,"date":"2025-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=25836"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:39:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:39:34","slug":"asm-503","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/03\/25\/asm-503\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 503"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fiona Avery is back in the saddle for a 2-parter that gave this title a dangling plot thread for a long time. Let\u2019s see how it goes. Always thought this was a striking cover, makes Spider-Man seem creepy. This issue has a pretty unique opening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We don\u2019t often get the woman-on-the-street perspective of these crazy super-events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For those scoring at home, I believe we have the Grandmaster, the Gardener, Heimdall, Death, Loki and Lord Chaos. A random assortment of Interdimensional People Who Know Things. Easily sets the stakes pretty high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The MJ face in panel 6 looks like it\u2019s suddenly 1987 again. Looks like the splash of ASM 291. I guess that\u2019s pretty specific, but it just doesn\u2019t feel like a 2003 Romita face. Interesting to me, anyway. We find Loki at the foot of Yggdrasil, the World Tree, seeking knowledge as Odin famously did once (Only without giving up an eye). This is intercut with that young lady having been completely possessed by \u201cMorwen, First Sorceress of Chaos,\u201d who sounds right at home with the players who just appeared, but is a new creation. Loki sees there\u2019s a weird rift in New York, and decides he has to go see it. He\u2019s got to sneak out of Asgard, but that\u2019s old hat for him. He holds up a rune that looks curiously like a spider and vanishes. He becomes a little spider, and skitters out on the bottom of the Rainbow Bridge. On Earth, Spider-Man is chasing some goons shooting at him on the street as Loki, now disguised as a child, thinks it\u2019s no coincidence he\u2019s encountered Spider-Man after the runes made him a spider to escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Morwen lady coulda easily been one of the new baddies Dan Jurgens and Johnny introduced on their Thor run. Romita, Jr. has some pretty unmistakable design preferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Loki-as-child appears, telling Spider-Man Strange isn\u2019t home, but wanted the kid to take Spider-Man to him. Spidey goes along with this, but feels weird, and once Loki has them in some old warehouse, he reveals his true self and wants to know what\u2019s going on. He traps Spider-Man in a spell, saying he knows who Morwen is and will bind Spidey here until she returns. He\u2019s pieced together most of what happened, but doesn\u2019t think Spider-Man deserves her power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They dance a little more, and it only serves to make Loki angrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is an odd one. But the way Spider-Man is written through it makes it more appealing than the usual Spider-Man Meets Cosmic Whatever stories. He\u2019s trying to face all this on his own terms for a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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