{"id":26917,"date":"2025-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=26917"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:39:00","slug":"usm-053","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/05\/31\/usm-053\/","title":{"rendered":"USM 053"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After 2 months of unusually specific covers, we\u2019re back to generic for the big finish to this story. Who can know what motivated these covers? I still kinda wonder if Bags just made a ton of the generics while Jemas was in charge, and they\u2019re burning them off where they can now he\u2019s gone. But, hey, that\u2019s not the thing, the thing is MJ ran away from home. May rushes to Peter\u2019s room, but he\u2019s not there. She rushes to Gwen\u2019s room, but she\u2019s asleep and doesn\u2019t know where Peter is. Then May hears a noise downstairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter rushes off, saying he\u2019ll be right back, and goes to the warehouse. Where he practiced his powers, where he caught the burglar, where she\u2019s been holed up before. And he finds here there, asleep in a big heavy coat, having written in her diary \u201cnever felt so isolated from the world in my whole\u201d–<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Big coloring mix up in panel 4, but an understandable one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MJ\u2019s dad sucks in any continuity. Great sequence, tho. Typically great acting from Bags. We jump to Peter at work, dozing off after last night, remembering Black Cat yelling about her dad, and having a flash that maybe the master she wanted Elektra to tell that to was Kingpin. He looks up known cat burglars, getting a list of various characters\u2019 real names, like Abner Jenkins (The Beetle), Hobie Brown, Thomas Fireheart and Cletus Kasady, but he also gets Jack Hardy, and eventually clicks on that one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Young Felicia there looks too much like MJ. Peter thinks if he figured it out, they must have, too, and we cut to Kingpin and Elektra in Felicia\u2019s home, which they have wrecked, Kingpin\u2019s giant hand around her neck and pinning her to a wall. Kingpin is ranting at her about what a loser her dad was when guess who shows up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You know, I didn\u2019t know it when this came out, but not totally different from Felicia\u2019s apparent death in ASM 195<\/a> back in her first story. Huh. Spidey hops back up after trying to save her, but the baddies have fled.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No magic tablet for USM. Well, not yet, at least, I don\u2019t honestly recall if it ever comes back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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