{"id":4185,"date":"2020-04-13T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T04:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2019-06-03T00:31:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T04:31:56","slug":"tac-140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/04\/13\/tac-140\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 140"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Seems like a meeting you don\u2019t want to attend. It\u2019s the day after last issue\u2019s grim cliffhanger, and Robbie is in the hospital surrounded by his family, maybe paralyzed, maybe worse. Peter goes to check on him and sees everyone filing out of the room at the close of visiting hours. Ben Urich informs him that they say Robbie may never walk again.
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That 4th panel sure is weird. Dutch tilt angle on nothing with no caption? Feels like it would be a \u201clater that evening\u2026\u201d kind of panel. Which would also help with the idea that Tombstone has snuck into Robbie\u2019s room to menace him. Which he certainly has.
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Poor Robbie. What a nightmare. Elsewhere, Spider-Man\u2019s doing the Daredevil bit, beating up dudes in a bar looking for information on who hired that guy to shoot Robbie at the top of last issue. While one of the guys tells Spidey that The Arranger hired Tombstone for \u201csome big job,\u201d one of the few still conscious goons is about to shoot our hero when someone else shoots him first. Spidey runs outside, but the assailant has already disappeared. He says this at least confirms for him that The Arranger hired Tombstone, but\u2026 he knew that last issue? What, did he take him at his word when he said Tombstone didn\u2019t work there? At any rate, he goes to bother The Arranger again.
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Wait, this is still meant to be the same night? It looked like daytime earlier, and Robbie met Tombstone at midnight. This timeline is very confusing. Some security goons come in and chase Spider-Man off. Then Arranger goes to see Rayburn, now strapped to a bed and barely conscious on drugs, as Tombstone comes in and says \u201che\u201d was flushed out into the open by Tombstone coming to New York, just as they planned. \u201cHe\u201d was spotted at the bar Spidey was roughing up earlier. Seems pretty obvious who that would be, but that\u2019s for later. I really hope it\u2019s finally the next day, because Peter & MJ come to visit Robbie in the hospital. Robbie asks to talk to Peter alone. In the hall, Martha worries to MJ that whatever happened to Robbie did more than just physical damage, while in the room\u2026.
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Robbie says he doesn\u2019t care what happens to him, but Tombstone could kill Martha or Randy, and he can\u2019t let that happen. Peter leaves frustrated, and tells MJ all about the tape as they walk down the hall, and it surprisingly doesn\u2019t set off his Spider Sense as a mysterious figure overhears them. Peter goes to The Bugle to try to get advice from Ben Urich, but someone left a number for Peter, and it\u2019s the mystery man, wanting to meet at Liberty Island to discuss the tape in one hour. Well, naturally, Spider-Man hitches a ride on the bottom of a helicopter, dropping onto The Statue of Liberty\u2019s torch just in time for someone in her crown to shoot a net at him. He races into the statue, but his assailant is fleeing down the stairs, shooting up behind him. Spidey\u2019s pretty sure that\u2019s the same gun from the bar, and wonders why the person tried to save him there and shoot him here. I mean\u2026 you know who it is, right? Spidey realizes these shots are just to keep him away, leaps out of the statue to reach the ground first and tackles the unsurprising mystery man.
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Um. Punisher knows Peter and Spider-Man are \u201cfriends\u201d from way back, so sure, he\u2019s not surprised to see him. But why would Spidey have or bring the tape? Who\u2019s he foolin\u2019 with the threats? Maybe we\u2019ll find out next time.
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