{"id":29188,"date":"2025-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=29188"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:36:00","slug":"fnsm-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/10\/14\/fnsm-06\/","title":{"rendered":"FNSM 06"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ooooooh, this comic was such a pain. As I wasn\u2019t buying Spider-Man for 7 months, I didn\u2019t get it. And I feel 100% certain this will be a bad comic. But then I decided that 7-month gap was so small, and I\u2019d already bought all these other crappy books, why not? Why not? I\u2019ve been bitterly learning \u201cwhy not,\u201d but it became more bitter when Sony announced a movie starring Bad Bunny as the dumb character on the cover here, El Muerto. El Muerto has appeared in exactly 2 comic books, ever, this one and the next issue. He\u2019s nothing. But Sony is so hilariously, sadly desperate to make superhero movies with access to nothing but Spider-Man that some intern must\u2019ve found him. So, as these things tend to do, suddenly FNSM 6 became an expensive collector\u2019s item. People getting it graded and asking hundreds for it. And so, here I was, Nightwatch all over again. And just like Nightwatch, I waited and waited, and eventually, I somehow won the book on eBay for $0.99 when people were asking $28 ungraded. And just like Nightwatch, the stupid movie never even happened. I\u2019m glad I\u2019m done buying old comics now, it was such a pain sometimes. But, $0.99 poorer, I can now see the thrilling debut of what is almost certain to be a borderline (At best) racist luchador superhero. And Ringo\u2019s not even here, it\u2019s Roger Cruz penciling, Oclair Albert & Victor Olazaba on inks, and Chris Sotomayor on colors. Did\u2026 did they seek out people with Latino names to try to lend this some credibility? Way back on X-Man 37<\/a>, I mentioned Roger Cruz is a guy who just kind of tries to draw like whatever the trend of the moment is, and so we\u2019ll see his stuff is very different in 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not a hint of faux-Joe Maduriera in there anymore. As if starting in mid-fight wasn\u2019t jarring enough, the next page begins a scene wherein JJJ and John Jameson are tied up in\u2026a house\u2026 by a guy who wants to kill them because his dad was executed by the state. He feels JJJ\u2019s editorials are what kept him from getting pardoned by the governor. Ok? Jonah begs John to \u201cdo something,\u201d clearly meaning Man-Wolf, but John doesn\u2019t seem to know what he\u2019s talking about. Does he have amnesia? Whose house is this, JJJ lives in Manhattan. Is this John\u2019s house? Is this happening before or after the random fight opener? Shouldn\u2019t someone\u2026 tell me something? Then El Muerto, who hasn\u2019t even been properly named yet, smashes through the window to the rescue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We are in some really bumpy territory here, on so many levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Holy crap, man, I totally forgot the idiotic thing where Jonah thought Spider-Man was John!! Wow. I don\u2019t even remember where it came from! I assume\u2026 Wait, was that Jenkins crap or Hudlin crap? I literally don\u2019t remember. It was Millar crap! The crappiest crap of all, in MKSM 8. Why on Earth didn\u2019t you just leave that to wither on the vine, David? How does he square this with JJJ lambasting the Avengers for allowing Spider-Man to join??? Answer: He cannot! Wow. Wow wow. Well, uh, anyway, also, in the past, I assume, Peter Parker, who has reported to his teaching job for the first time in a long time, is getting onto a \u201cjock\u201d student for being mean to a \u201cnerd\u201d student, and the jock kid says his coach told him not to let anyone get in his way, and, well, we know who that is\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The structure of this story is aggressively unpleasant to read. But, then, so is the story itself. But, at least we now know why Spider-Man has returned to his wrestling career, which picks back up on the next page, and then we flashback to El Muerto\u2019s\u2026 origin. His dad was El Muerto, and also his grandfather, and\u2026 apparently they\u2019re all given powers by some mysterious figure. And his dad brought the current guy to the mystery guy to be tested, and he didn\u2019t wanna do it. So mystery guy was gonna kill him, but his dad fought for him and died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weird that Logan is the only person in this comic who looks at all like Cruz\u2019 90s art. Well, now we\u2019re back to rasslin, Spider-Man asking what he has to do to end this, if he just needs to pin El Muerto or what.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marvel would never let a white guy write this stereotypical stuff today. If someone of actual Mexican heritage had an idea for a Luchador hero, maybe. Someone in the tradition of El Santo. But this is awkward at best. And Sony wants to make a movie out of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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