{"id":4908,"date":"2020-05-24T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=4908"},"modified":"2019-06-23T00:20:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T04:20:59","slug":"tac-149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/05\/24\/tac-149\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 149"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is another one new to me. No concrete dates for Miles Warren. Probably for the best. This one starts off by revealing a not terribly secret secret.
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Yes, The Lobo Brothers, who constantly make wolf puns and who have been depicted as very hairy with some pretty impressive fangs, are werewolves. Shocking! Werewolf mobsters is a kinda fun idea, though. The next day, Peter Parker is sitting in class, off in his own world, thinking about the things he learned from The High Evolutionary about Miles Warren. He thinks it makes sense that his bio professor couldn\u2019t make full adult clones of people from a few cells (Mm hm), but now he\u2019s wondering what Carrion was, like it sez on the cover. Odd that he\u2019s not thinking about, you know, the clone of himself that he beat up and tossed down a smokestack. What if that was some innocent dude?
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Oh, hey, Malcolm McBride. We know him from Block 9. I never knew how Malcolm became the 2nd Carrion, but I guess we\u2019re about to see. Peter tells his labmates he\u2019s working on an \u201cindependent study\u201d today, then goes down to Miles Warren\u2019s long-closed lab in the basement. A figure follows him, but doesn\u2019t set off his Spidey Sense, for some reason. Then his Spidey Sense leads him to a book hidden in the floor, for some reason. You are 0\/2 on the Spider Sense on page 6 alone, Conway.
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\u201cLemme just drink this real quick!\u201d And once again, no Spider Sense. Sheesh. Now, we\u2019ve seen Peter find that same journal in Aunt May\u2019s attic back in Block 9. But I assume it\u2019s going to tell us how Warren made no clones here, only to tell us how he made clones in the 90s. What a mess.  Meanwhile, Joe Robertson is on trial for not ratting out Tombstone years ago, and Tombstone has been called as a witness. He claims he would never hurt Robbie, because they\u2019re friends, and the prosecutor seems to buy this completely. Joy Mercado leaves the courtroom in anguish, sad to be reporting on the trial of a beloved colleague.
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The Robbie situation is really too much for me. So the Feds are so eager to put him away for not actually doing anything 20 years ago that they\u2019d reduce Tombstone\u2019s sentence for multiple homicides<\/em> to get him?? This is ridiculous! Also ridiculous: Glory\u2019s whirlwind romance with Eduardo. Maybe he\u2019s got Dracula-style mind control, I dunno, this whole thing feels weird. My personal experience with The Lobo Brothers story was spotty as a youth, I\u2019m seeing a lot of this for the first time. Whatever, later that night, Malcolm McBride is examining his vial of goo, saying it\u2019s a virus that multiplies at a shocking rate. But as he ponders claiming it as his own to get rich, it forms a tendril (Colored just like the muck monster from back in TAC 31<\/a>, which is a nice touch) and reaches up to slap him in the face. That\u2019s whatcha get, Malcolm. As he begins his grim transformation, we look in on Peter, home at Aunt May\u2019s and reading Warren\u2019s journal. Time for a serious retcon\u2026
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I don\u2019t know how easy that text is to read, but Warren says he fell in love with Gwen the second he saw her, and once she died, he hated Peter Parker for having her love, so he followed him around intending to kill him. When he saw him change into Spider-Man, he began to formulate a far more ridiculous revenge. The woman who got turned into Gwen Stacy finally gets a name, Joyce Delany, as we\u2019re told Warren\u2019s assistant, Anthony Serba, was made into the other Spider-Man. This was all accomplished with a virus that overwrites someone\u2019s DNA with someone else\u2019s. Friends\u2026 how is this more reasonable or realistic than cloning? And why does Gerry Conway not care about Peter\u2019s Spider Sense, like, at all? How could Warren possibly have watched him change like that without setting off an alarm? Seriously, this is terrible. He should have left well enough alone. Ugh. Spider-Man swings over to ESU to look for more clues, and runs into, guess who, Carrion. Who seems surprised that Spidey knows his name, and then surprised again when Spidey knows to avoid his death touch.
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Good thing he had his good ol\u2019 Spider Sense to warn him to avoid that dust\u2026 wait, that\u2019s not what happened? I throw up my hands. Also, that dust which is supposed to kill people but sometimes doesn\u2019t when the plot demands it sure must be hard to use. Spidey wakes up on Gwen\u2019s grave, Carrion demanding to know how he knows about \u201cThe Replicator Virus.\u201d
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Again, this is supposed to be more plausible than cloning? Some random no name biology professor had the juice to make a virus that can turn you into other people and\/or imbue you with superpowers? Sheesh. They fight around the graveyard, with it becoming apparent that Carrion believes Warren is still alive, waiting for him to report that he\u2019s killed Spider-Man, so Spidey tries to move their fight to Warren\u2019s grave (Oh sure, why wouldn\u2019t they be in the same graveyard, New York is so small, after all), and eventually gets batted right into it.
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Spidey gives a big speech about how Warren recanted his evil in the end while whupping on Carrion before punching him through Warren\u2019s tombstone.
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Uuuuuhhhh\u2026 ok! Also, The Vault, supermax prison for supervillains, is in Colorado, so that\u2019ll be quite a trip! Man, this issue was 100% unnecessary. Conway just couldn\u2019t leave the clone stuff alone. And then they came along and re-retconned all this stuff just a few years later. \u201cHey, it\u2019s this.\u201d \u201cHey, it\u2019s not actually this.\u201d \u201cForget what he said the 2nd time, he was right the first time.\u201d At least we\u2019re \u201cdone\u201d with clones and Warren and such for this period.
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