{"id":27448,"date":"2025-07-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=27448"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:38:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:38:34","slug":"asm-517","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/07\/05\/asm-517\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 517"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The thing about Richard Isanove that has driven me insane for 20+ years now is, you go up to him, you say, \u201cHey, Richard, what\u2019s the most normal color a sky could be?\u201d and he goes \u201cMAGENTA. OBVIOUSLY.\u201d This cover is completely on-brand for his body of work. He never met a sky he wouldn\u2019t paint pink. I don\u2019t understand. I\u2019m amazed the run of USM covers from the previous block didn\u2019t include a pink sky. But you know what he did do? UXM 34<\/a>. FF 513<\/a>. Here\u2019s a small gallery of Isanove jobs with pink skies after 10 seconds with an image search:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Look at this. They gave him this classic Mike Zeck cover of Spider-Man digging out of his own grave\u2026 at night\u2026 and what did Richard think it was missing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s insane. Has he ever been outside? Does he live on another planet? Where does the pink sky come from? Is this tangent to keep me from having to read this comic a little longer? Maybe. Well, at any rate, ol\u2019 shiny dumb guy is still threatening to kill people if Peter doesn\u2019t help him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can see most of one of Spider-Man\u2019s buttcheeks up on that top leg, and some of the other on the bottom one. Spider-Man hasn\u2019t had a caboose this gigantic since Todd McFarlane. If he were to suffer a classic \u201cSpider-Man falling to his death\u201d cliffhanger right now, he could just get into a sitting position and be fine when he hit the ground. I am really not engaged with this story at all. JSM and Jenkins have both spent all their goodwill and I am treating them as hostile, at this point. Also, while not traced directly or anything, I swear Deodato jacked every Spider-Man on this page except that weird face in panel 2 from 90s John Romita, Jr. Even the little ones. The next page\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026is an obvious reference to Spider-Man 2, complete with a Bruce Campbell cameo. That\u2019s super weird. I did not remember that! Straczynski saw that movie and was like, \u201cI love this scene, I wish I wrote it\u2026 maybe I can!\u201d I guess? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Can MJ not have a little dignity? Like, ever? Sigh. Peter tells MJ that once she gets out of here, she should get May and go check into a hotel, because Charlie knows where they live. As he does so, Charlie is seen breaking into\u2026 somewhere. I don\u2019t know. He puts a TV on (TVs are always there to help further the plot in these books!) just in time to see one of his bullies, all growed up, handsome, and married to a beautiful woman, natch, talking about how lame he was in school. He talks about how he tried to help Charlie, but some people don\u2019t appreciate that, and then we flashback to said bully (Finally named, \u201cRich,\u201d 3 issues into this) and said wife and the whole cheerleading squad teaming up to humiliate Charlie one time. This is some very unsubtle material. In the present, Charlie hallucinates (I guess?) them making fun of him through the TV as their high school selves, and notes they still live in Rich\u2019s dad\u2019s old house. Soooooo\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m pretty sure there\u2019s already a villain called the Vibranium Man\u2026 Maybe I\u2019m just thinking of Titanium Man. What\u2019s this guy gonna be called? Maybe nothing, I guess. Well, he goes to the meet, where Spider-Man is waiting. He webs Charlie\u2019s hat off (Charlie thinks it\u2019s the wind) as an excuse to go down there. He\u2019s intentionally causing a panic among a bunch of regular people?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I guess he is. What a hero!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yeah, this canonically takes place after the Sins Past follow-up. The only time JMS has ever referenced the secondary Spider-Title during his run is when it\u2019s his pet project. Typical. Deodato has no style. Every drawing of Spider-Man looks different, the mask eyes, the build, even the pattern of the webbing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charlie throws a car at our hero, and escapes while he\u2019s preventing it from hurting anyone. Then they spend most of a page on a comedy bit of a woman coming to said car and it crumbling to bits when she unlocks it. But the rest of that page is Charlie rolling up to Aunt May\u2019s house. How\u2019d he get there so fast??<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hang on, hang on. Is\u2026 Is Deodato\u2019s Peter Parker Jason Priestly? That top picture makes me think he might be. That\u2019s nuts. Maybe I can decide next issue, as this dumb crap comes to its particularly dumb conclusion. I don\u2019t remember much about this story, but I remember that much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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