{"id":27273,"date":"2025-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=27273"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:38:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:38:44","slug":"tac-v2-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/06\/23\/tac-v2-22\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC V2 22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019ve never read this, but I know who that is on the cover, and yer not gonna believe it. This month, Talent Caldwell is inked by Norman Lee. We open on Spider-Man waxing poetic about life and change, and the how people look like ants from his vantage, etc, before getting to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He does know this guy, and so do we. The guy gets a whole splash page as it is suddenly raining on him out of nowhere. Having switched to Peter Parker, our hero approaches the guy, thinking he\u2019s changed, that he used to \u201cBE somebody\u201d (He most certainly did not), but now he\u2019s \u201cjust another drunk,\u201d only he\u2019s projecting all his misery onto the people around him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This page really hits like a ton of bricks, huh? MINDWORM. A character who only appeared twice (ASM 138<\/a> and TAC 35<\/a>), and yet Jenkins somehow brings him back and totally botches the history. A couple of jewel heists?? When??? Last time we saw him, he\u2019d realized \u201cwith power comes responsibility\u201d and seemed eager to go on the straight and narrow. But he never committed any \u201cjewel heists!\u201d He wasn\u2019t that kinda villain!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ugh. Peter is upset that he doesn\u2019t know how to \u201csolve the problem,\u201d giving Mindworm his umbrella and going home. Now he\u2019s at dinner with May & MJ, but he\u2019s not really there, he\u2019s thinking. When May prods him to talk about what\u2019s bothering him, he asks if there were 2 people drowning and you could only save one of them, who would you save? He offers no context, just \u201ctwo people.\u201d I mean\u2026 that\u2019s not enough for your hypothetical, dude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I do like May\u2019s last line there. Over 2 pages of montage portraying another couple days, Spider-Man and Peter both can\u2019t stop thinking about Mindworm, beating himself up for all the choices he made during their previous fights that didn\u2019t actually happen, thinking \u201che was probably always mentally ill, and I treated him like a CRIMINAL.\u201d He was a psychic vampire who killed his parents and happily fed on the people in Flash\u2019s old neighborhood from his home in a cartoon haunted house, Peter! It was not subtle! Well, now it\u2019s a week later, raining again, and Spider-Man has decided to come see if he can take Mindworm to \u201ca doctor I know.\u201d so he knows (Somehow?) that Mindworm was psychically making this whole part of town miserable and just left it. What are we even doing? Well, now he arrives and it looks like a war zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So that guy just got hit by a train? Everyone\u2019s fighting vision of monsters that they think are people who\u2019ve hurt them (What sense does that make? Is this guy imagining the giant green creature he\u2019s imagining is also his dad? What?). Spider-Man\u2019s barely holding it together. A guy  cuts him, and then the guy with a gun who thinks the green monster is his dad now thinks Spider-Man is his dad, and he doesn\u2019t like his dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WHO IS BENNY? WHAT IS GOING ON????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is he dead? What even happened in this comic book!? Ugh. This series ends with #27. Is put out of its misery, maybe. Jenkins only writes 1 of the remaining issues. But the ones he doesn\u2019t do aren\u2019t much of a reprieve. I\u2019m hurting during this period, man. I\u2019m getting hit from all directions. Well, almost all. New Avengers is gonna keep my spirits up. But first\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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