{"id":28545,"date":"2025-09-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=28545"},"modified":"2024-02-21T19:20:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T23:20:14","slug":"usm-080","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/09\/08\/usm-080\/","title":{"rendered":"USM 080"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Strange to me that the Moon Knight of this universe has Romita, Sr. Spider-Man eyes. Good for him, I guess. This issue opens with 2 pages of Danny Rand\u2019s early parole hearing in prison. We remember Danny from trying to stop a robbery in that Wizard \u00bd issue. He assures the board that, if he were released, he would never use his Iron Fist against people again. It\u2019s staged very much like the first scene in the George Clooney Ocean\u2019s Eleven. Then, we get back to the end of last issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elektra: World\u2019s Greatest Detective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I didn\u2019t really need to run that page, I just think that exchange between Spidey and MK is very funny. Spidey says it\u2019s just occurred to him that he can leave, and he does. And then Moon Knight appears on the front page of the Daily Bugle under the heading \u201cMOONMAN COMETH\u201d (Sidebar: \u201cSilvermane Dead\u201d). JJJ does not like that headline, but Robbie thought it was classier than what he wanted. Then Ben Urich runs in to tell them he\u2019s determined the fire was started at a Fisk warehouse, and he\u2019s off to the races. Peter is there to hand over a copy of the evening edition (? Why?), and when JJJ calls their subject \u201cMoonman,\u201d Peter slips and says his name is \u201cMoon Knight.\u201d Caught, he says some kids at school said so. JJJ says Moonman is funnier and shoos him away. Pretty good! Peter is then at his desk, fretting in Peter Parker fashion, when the phone rings. It\u2019s May, wanting to know if he skipped school, because they called. He gives a bad excuse, and she asks if it\u2019s about MJ. She says they\u2019ll talk about it when he gets home. When they hang up, she says to thin air, \u201cStop running away from your life. Just like your father.\u201d On his end, Peter looks typically upset for the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shortly, Spider-Man is swinging around, ranting internally about how Fisk never goes away, finding his way to Fisk Tower, landing on the roof. And then the door opens. Elektra says Mr. Fisk would like to speak to him. After some banter\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He\u2019s 15, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the record, I do want to go to work and do as little as possible and get a big cookie for it. Two, even, if possible. Kingpin produces a file on Hammerhead. In very classic post-1980s Kingpin fashion, he proceeds (Ignoring Spider-Man\u2019s constant yammering) to explain who he is, that he killed Silvermane and caused the fire, that he\u2019s considered crazy and violent even in Kingpin\u2019s circles, and he\u2019ll be out doing all this unopposed unless Spider-Man stops him. He has even provided Hammerhead\u2019s home address. Our guy asks if Kingpin is expecting Spider-Man to take out Hammerhead for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s like your typical mid-to-late 80s Kingpin\/Spider-Man scene, except it\u2019s working a whole lot better. The power imbalance between the very young Spider-Man and jaded old Kingpin enhances the situation, and the fact that this is all new for these versions of the characters does, too. In the letter page, we are assured the USM video game is in continuity. We\u2019ll see about that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strange to me that the Moon Knight of this universe has Romita, Sr. Spider-Man eyes. Good for him, I guess. This issue opens with 2 pages of Danny Rand\u2019s early parole hearing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864],"tags":[35,113,1922,81,625,13,2131,26,100,339,21,161,417,2,1923],"class_list":["post-28545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","tag-aunt-may","tag-ben-urich","tag-brian-michael-bendis","tag-hammerhead","tag-iron-fist","tag-j-jonah-jameson","tag-jd-smith","tag-joe-robertson","tag-kingpin","tag-mark-bagley","tag-mary-jane-watson","tag-moon-knight","tag-scott-hanna","tag-spider-man","tag-ultimate-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28546,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28545\/revisions\/28546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}