{"id":6204,"date":"2020-06-19T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=6204"},"modified":"2019-09-02T01:38:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T05:38:44","slug":"smu-08-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/06\/19\/smu-08-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SMU 08"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I hope this giant-size adventure isn\u2019t horrendous. I\u2019m trying to stay awake, here. WEB artist Tom Lyle writes, Ron Lim provides breakdowns, no fewer than 4 people ink (Tom Palmer, Al Milgrom, Scott Hanna and someone I don\u2019t know, and buddy, those diverse names mean the art style is gonna be all over the place), John Kalisz colors. Another thing that\u2019s gonna be weird about this one is it seems to heavily feature The Twin Towers. 1994, man. Anyway, we begin with some gold armored goons rushing out of the subway (Were they actually taking the subway?) on their way to assault the towers. And wouldn\u2019t you know it, having dinner at the Skyline Restaurant atop one of them is Mary Jane Watson-Parker, out with heretofore unseen pal Carly, when the gold guys burst in, shooting at random, seemingly having fun.
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The goons finally identify themselves as Terror Unlimited and keep babbling like a bunch of bros. Elsewhere, Ben Reilly is walking home and runs into Rich Gannon, from the debacle in the previous issue of SMU, who says he got his old job back, is living in the hotel, and is doing well, and he credits Ben with getting the ball rolling on that. So that\u2019s nice. Inside, Ben sees in the paper that Doc Ock is dead, and decides he needs to get out and swing around to clear his head. Meanwhile, Spider-Man gets home from swinging around himself, finds a note from MJ letting him know she\u2019s out to dinner, and goes to sleep, no way of knowing she\u2019s in trouble.
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Pretty standard cop movie negotiation stuff until Terror Uninteresting shoots some missiles out the window to prove they\u2019re serious, blowing up The South Street Mission. The very place Ben Reilly\u2019s pal Rich was going to volunteer. Then the goofballs announce that they have a nuke. Really? Who are these idiots? Why are they so well equipped? Ben Reilly hears the KA-WHOOM! Of their explosion and heads for The Twin Towers. Now we just have to figure out how to get Spider-Man there. First, though, both Ben Urich and Ken Ellis head down to cover different aspects of the standoff. Speaking of\u2026
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Somehow, that guy was sniped out of the air by a security guard. Like, with a handgun. Ooooohkay. The main goons go grab him. Then they\u2019re informed the one that got shot down had their detonator, so they toss the guard out the window in anger. You probably think The Scarlet Spider will swing in and catch him. I did, too. He does not.
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It\u2019s all cliches around here. These issues are Tom Lyle\u2019s first time writing anything, and he is pretty green. Ben is very sad, of course, but there\u2019s more people who need his help, so he keeps going through the rubble, unearthing people luckier than Rich. When he\u2019s done, someone tells him what happened, and he swings off toward the towers, Ken Ellis trailing behind yelling questions at him.
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I realize these dudes call their goons \u201cdrones\u201d and that does not imply much respect, but this seems a bit over the top. If you can just casually shoot your own dudes, if they\u2019re that unimportant to your plan, why bring them? MJ sees a spiderman climbing the other tower and assumes it\u2019s her husband, so she goes to try to help the guy who got shot while waiting for him to get here. But he\u2019s at home, having a shower. However, he\u2019s got the radio on, and hears about the plot going on where his wife was, so Spider-Man finally makes an entrance. Well, sort of. As he swings out, we go see Ken Ellis, no one\u2019s favorite character.
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Ok. The Golden Girls finally get around to sending some goons to retrieve their detonator, and then fire a missile at a news helicopter outside just as Spider-Man is arriving on the scene.
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He webs up the rotors so the helicopter doesn\u2019t slice through his web and it\u2019s mission accomplished. Down on the ground, that Carr guy tells him the deal, and then he\u2019s off to save his wife and the rest of them. Meanwhile, Ben\u2019s followed the guys setting up the nuke in the other building.
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Downstairs, Ken Ellis, America\u2019s least favorite reporter, somehow sneaks into the tower past all the cops, and takes an elevator up to try to talk to the bad guys. What an idiot. Over in the other building, the other goons have arrived with the detonator, and descend into the elevator shaft to meet up with their bros, when The Scarlet Spider attacks\u2026 making one of them drop the detonator.
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That spin kick is a cool panel. 
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If you\u2019re wondering who that kid\u2019s daddy is, well, so am I. The guy who got shot, maybe? What happened to him? This is a real mess of a story. Not helping matters, Scarlet Spider has hidden the detonator in his tower when he happens on Carr and some cops rushing one of the Terror Unlimited leaders\u2026 who were both in the other building? Their bullets bounce off his armor, so Ben jumps in.
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While in the other tower\u2026
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Does this guy not think he\u2019ll get nuked, too? Does he, like, know anything about nuclear weapons? Does Tom Lyle? Spidey webs the switch, not knowing Ben took care of the bomb, and then webs the moron Ellis out of the way so he can beat up the other moron. And so he does. 
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Over in the air next to the other tower, Ben finishes his idiot off, too, knocking him out and bringing him to Carr.
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I\u2019m gonna guess the only pages Scott Hanna inked were those last 2. They\u2019re much sharper than the rest of the book. And that\u2019s that. Not great! You will be shocked to hear this was Terror Unlimited\u2019s only appearance. Who were they? Who cares? But it is kind interesting how they managed to have both Spider-Men appear in the same story without actually interacting yet. Saving that reunion for the more important books.
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