{"id":30330,"date":"2025-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=30330"},"modified":"2024-03-05T18:50:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T22:50:11","slug":"ssm-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/12\/19\/ssm-40\/","title":{"rendered":"SSM 40"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Like FNSM, this run ends on a one-off. Clayton Crain presiding on art. I guess it\u2019s fitting as the 2nd-most represented artist on this strange run, that he send it off. Looks like a Peter & MJ-focused one. Maybe it\u2019ll, like, be good. I always wonder what Crain and his ilk, the surprising amount of artists who think Spider-Man doesn\u2019t have a nose, what are they thinking, exactly? Is it just because McFarlane often drew him with almost no nose? He has one. You know it\u2019s there when the mask\u2019s off. What\u2019s your deal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, are we doing this? Next page Liz is nice to him before he got bit (incorrect) and they ride a bus to the experiment where he got his powers (incorrect), and then Crain does a noseless recreation of the cover to AF 15 as a splash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The addition of \u201cChuckles\u201d and \u201cSpanky\u201d REALLY improves on the original, Roberto, great thinking. Sheesh. Next the dialogue from Spider-Man confronting the (Completely wrong looking) burglar is mangle even worse, and then it\u2019s Ben\u2019s funeral, where Peter vows no one else will die because of him. Ttttthhhhen we skip to Norman Osborn\u2019s death, THEN Gwen\u2019s, out of order, and also Norman isn\u2019t dead. No Harry? George Stacy? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guess not! Ok, wait. Who\u2026 I think Jean DeWolff, Harry, Kraven, George Stacy and\u2026 and who? That looks so much like Miles Morales\u2019 costume. Is that meant to be Ben Reilly, colors reversed? If only they got a professional to do this issue. Also, let\u2019s say you\u2019re a woman, and your husband is like \u201cI gotta blow off steam. I gotta HURT SOMETHING.\u201d Get out of there, girl. The thing he decides to hurt is\u2026 a dumpster in an alley. He\u2019s just hammering on it when some weird looking guy walks up. I thought he was Morbius, but he asks Peter if he wants to go get a burger (????).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is the reanimated corpse of Iggy Pop here supposed to be God? What in the world is going on? Peter says he\u2019d beg this weirdo to save Aunt May, that he\u2019s give up Spider-Man and anything else. So Iggy takes him to Robert Moses Beach to walk on the boardwalk. Sure, man, why not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Iggy shows him a big crowd of people in matching white shirts and brown pants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aaaand the award for worst single issue of Back In Black goes to! What the hell was this!? Why did God look like that? Why is anything anything, Frylock!? I am bowled over by this. Utterly baffling. And that\u2019s game, set & match for Roberto Aguirre-Sacas, Clayton Crain, and the absent Angel Medina. What a bizarre run they had. Truly, truly bizarre. I liked\u2026 some of it? Man oh man. Well, we are just about down to business. But first, a nice detour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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