{"id":4376,"date":"2020-04-25T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2019-09-02T00:59:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T04:59:59","slug":"asm-308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/04\/25\/asm-308\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 308"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A cover that\u2019ll make you go \u201c…Is that Taskmaster? Why is his face\u2026 like that? Is it him?\u201d Anyway, the cops are at Peter Parker\u2019s place to investigate Mary Jane\u2019s disappearance, and they\u2019re lead by Sgt. Michael Tork, for some reason. Tork\u2019s a \u201cplay by his own rules,\u201d \u201cloose cannon,\u201d \u201cother cliches\u201d tough guy cop who\u2019s appeared in a lot of places around the Marvel U (Including earlier issues of ASM), and doesn\u2019t seem like the guy you want on this case.
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Feel the 80s comin\u2019 off that page! When the cops leave, Peter beats himself up in his usual fashion, sure someone has figured out he\u2019s Spider-Man and kidnapped MJ in a bid to get to him. Unbeknownst to him, she\u2019s elsewhere in the same building, being held captive in Jonathon Caesar\u2019s specially designed prison apartment. I mean, I get that he\u2019s crazy, but this doesn\u2019t seem terribly well thought out.
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So, yeah, dealing with a real crazy guy here. He keeps talking about how he\u2019s learned to manipulate people over the years, then about how he\u2019s been hoping to kidnap her ever since he first saw her on a magazine cover, and thus made sure she & Peter were able to get a place here. After talking about how they\u2019ll be happy in their new life together, he and his goons leave her alone in what we\u2019re told is a soundproof room with an unbreakable window. Meanwhile, Spider-Man is out shaking down crooks trying to get a lead on her. One informant says he might be able to bring back some info in 24 hours. The next day, Peter\u2019s not doing too well. His publicist Ginny is with him, trying to help, but who could? He wants to cancel is book signing in in Queens, but then Aunt May calls to say how proud and excited she is, and he decides to go through with it.
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Well, that\u2019s not entirely true, caption. MJ may not know Felicia\u2019s back in town and looking for Peter, but they\u2019ve met a couple of times. Later that night, Spider-Man is in a \u201cderelict graveyard\u201d in Brooklyn, having been told by his guy that someone out for revenge on Spider-Man is based here. He thinks he\u2019s been played until a bunch of goons show up and start shooting. He has no trouble with them, of course.
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Keith Pollard has been slighted by these tombstones! McFarlane\u2019s take on Taskmaster is only slightly less weird inside than on the cover. Taksy wants to explain his whole supervillain deal, as they tend to do, but Spidey\u2019s not in the mood, slinging a tombstone at him and demanding to know where MJ is. But Tasky vanishes, and Spidey has to force one of his goons to tell him their base in a fortified mausoleum across the way. He smashes his way in demanding Mary Jane Watson-Parker. TM says he\u2019s never heard of her, but Spidey\u2019s in time to help him train a bunch of new recruits.
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Not that all his fancy moves help him. So Tasky sets off a flare in the room, which is full of munitions, and runs for it, once again saying he doesn\u2019t know about MJ, and if he did, he\u2019d be rubbing Spider-Man\u2019s nose in it. Spidey realizes that\u2019s true, and this has all been for nothing. He escapes the exploding base, waits for the fire department to show, and then dejectedly heads home, never guessing MJ is in the same building. Will our hero find his missing wife? I mean\u2026 probably. But how? When? Come back next time.
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