{"id":27459,"date":"2025-07-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=27459"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:38:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:38:34","slug":"asm-518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/07\/06\/asm-518\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 518"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the late 80s and early 90s, Joe Jusko was the first guy to really bring painted covers into the mainstream. He predates Alex Ross. At one point, they did an entire line of trading cards called Marvel Masterpieces painted by him. He was less active by this point, so this cover was a surprise. Alright, alright, let\u2019s let this thing limp over the finish line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You know what, credit where it\u2019s due, Deo\u2019s Spider-Man got a lot less lumpy over time. Compare this guy to the freak show on the cover of ASM 509<\/a>, it\u2019s like a different artist. An artist named Joe Bennett. That guy seems to have made a big impression on Deo when he was filling in for him around the Spider-Office in the late 90s. Well, anyway, our man swings off and sees smoke coming out of his own apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But Deodato\u2019s not as good at late 90s Joe Bennett as Joe Bennett was, and 2004 Joe Bennett is miles ahead of late 90s Joe Bennett. It\u2019s a real shame that guy turned out to be reprehensible, he became a good artist. Well, Charlie lets go as the ceiling comes down, and Spider-Man loses track of him. He has to smash his way out of his own place and makes it down to the street before collapsing from smoke inhalation. Then we\u2019re off to another flashback\u2026 sort of. Turns out, Peter is dreaming, and the adult versions of him and Charlie are the classroom with the kid versions. The adult ones are Deodato-style, everything else is Mark Brooks. This is a visual gag I always love, mixing 2 artists\u2019 styles for effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh my god, is Deodato\u2019s Peter REALLY Jason Priestly!? What a bizzzzarre choice! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Timothy Dalton returns as Tony Stark. Ugh. So, like, did Peter already know all this, or is he learning in the dream? That would be very dumb, but like, we\u2019re way past dumb. Well, our man wakes up on the pavement surrounded by an unusually nice crowd of people, in his experience, and then takes off to go ask Tony Stark to borrow some equipment. Nice to be able to do that now, one assumes. He thinks he doesn\u2019t have time to worry about his place, \u201cwhat\u2019s gone is gone,\u201d which is true and all, but he\u2019s being unusually nonchalant about it. We skip ahead to him working on finishing this, but first, he calls MJ & May in a hotel to make sure they\u2019re ok. It\u2019s \u201cCasa Quesada,\u201d a very aggressive nod to the bossman (Aunt May says housekeeping only comes by every 6 months at Casa Quesada, which\u2026 one assume you could read any number of things into that, or none at all). Sure his family is safe, he swings on to find Charlie throwing cop cars at cops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey smashes Charlie between two cars, then thinks \u201cJust got to web these in place before he can recover and get any leverage,\u201d and creates\u2026 a big ball of web\u2026 that\u2019s not nearly big enough to contain 2 cars\u2026 but then\u2026 what\u2019s in it? I don\u2019t know. Then he swings that ball to Stark Industries, and Deodato steals the Spider-Man off the cover of ASM 121. No problem, I\u2019m sure no one would notice a swipe from such an obscure issue. He smashes through a window, and when Charlie is unleashed, Spidey kicks him into a waiting chamber, inside which he can change the atmospheric pressure. While that\u2019s happening, Peter flashes back to when Charlie moved away, and the young Peter hoped a change of city would improve Charlie\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abruptly, that\u2019s it. This is the next page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And there you have the one thing I remembered about this story: The Death of Aunt May\u2019s House. Almost as stupid and shortsighted as killing Aunt May herself. But like Aunt May, it may just be that the house can get better after its death\u2026 But that\u2019s getting ahead of myself. Well, Peter, MJ & May are all homeless. Wonder where they\u2019ll end up\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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