{"id":27975,"date":"2025-08-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=27975"},"modified":"2024-02-21T19:22:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T23:22:40","slug":"hom-spider-man-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/08\/10\/hom-spider-man-5\/","title":{"rendered":"HoM: Spider-Man 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This issue begins with a rather self-indulgent 4-page remake of George Stacy\u2019s death from ASM 90, wherein Waid and\/or Peyer rewrite Stan Lee, which, you know, not a good look, changing all the dialogue. But, on the other hand, after innumerable self-indulgent remakes of Gwen\u2019s death, this is at least novel. This is all being read from Peter\u2019s diary. George says it has to be the sickest thing he\u2019s ever read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the Pulse 9, Hawkeye confronts Kat Farrel in the House of M universe, trying to get her to see the world is wrong. He shows her a Daily Bugle headline about his own death, but to her, the headline is about something that happened in the altered universe. Only people who\u2019d had their brains fixed by Layla could see the truth. Hawkeye commented that the illusion of this world was paper thin. Which\u2026 kind of explains how Peter & his family can read his real diary, but\u2026 would also sort of prove anyone not fixed by Layla shouldn\u2019t be able to. I dunno, who really cares?  Well, somewhere else, some humans are being evicted from a homeless shelter they were driven to post-Spider-Man revelation by the cartoonishly brutal mutant supercops or something, when guess who shows up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The people he saved then try to tear him apart for ruining their lives. We have fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wait\u2026 is he saying he made up the diary? Using his subconscious real memories? Could this be any more unnecessarily complicated?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That transition coulda been smoother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man, what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Man, WHAT? What is this comic? The next page is various people reacting to his death, usually cruelly, since that\u2019s what this comic is about. And, you know, since he\u2019s obviously not dead, we next find that paper webbed to Magneto\u2019s wall in Genosha with the note \u201cIf you want me to stay dead, ease up on the humans.\u201d How did broke, homeless, faked-his-death Peter Parker FLY TO GENOSHA just to be a jerk to Magneto????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well. This hopeless, depressing mess of a story literally could not have happened during House of M, so seriously, what was the point? Just to con readers out of more money? I guess the only solace I can take in my own stupidity for buying this was I got it used, so Marvel didn\u2019t make any money off my purchase. Although, as stupid and byzantine as the comics market is, they don\u2019t technically get any money from me when I buy new, either. The comic book companies\u2019 customer is the comic store owner. The only people making money from my individual purchases are the people I buy the book from. Weird as that is. I mentioned while looking at Breakout that it was one of 2 minis running at the same time in addition to 3 monthly solo books, a quarterly book, a team book and an event series. House of M was obviously the event and the other mini. Issue 1 of this came out as issue 4 of Breakout hit the stands. Oversaturation. Speaking of that quarterly title\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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