{"id":8772,"date":"2021-04-16T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=8772"},"modified":"2020-04-23T20:02:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T00:02:06","slug":"tac-159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/04\/16\/tac-159\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC 159"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not only did I not buy this one at the time, I\u2019ve never even read it before. My reading of Web and Spectacular was spotty at first, but I tended to get Web more because I preferred its art. I wouldn\u2019t find myself routinely buying all the Spider-Titles until the clone crap demanded it. Before and after that, I\u2019d just get the ones that looked interesting. Once in a great while, I\u2019d even pass on ASM, tho the first instance of that is several years in the future from this issue. Anyway, The Brothers Grimm! Dopey villains, but I don\u2019t know much about them. Seem like more jobbers Spider-Man will mercilessly crush with his new powers, but let\u2019s see. Mike Esposito hangs on to do finishes, still fully ignoring that Spidey\u2019s costume is mostly black now. We start on Percy and Barton Grimes (The Brothers Grimm booooo) in prison Los Angeles when The Wizard shows up and rips the roof off the whole building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I guess if these lames can give Iron Man a hard time, they should be a problem for Spider-Man. Well, normally. Speaking of, he\u2019s hanging upside down, as is his way, thinking about\/recapping his cosmic adventures, when he realizes he\u2019s floating upside down way up in the sky. This, in turn, freaks him out so bad he goes falling to Earth and barely latches a web onto the side of a bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doom\u2019s, of course. He reiterates to himself and us his interest in learning the extend og Spider-Man\u2019s new powers and how to take advantage of them as The Wizard checks in to say The Brothers Grimm are go as Spidey\u2019s next challengers. Turns out they were Doom\u2019s idea, wanting to pit magic against The Webslinger\u2019s new moves. Meanwhile, in Washington DC, Joe Robertson\u2019s lawyer and Bruiser\u2019s brother the White House advisor are on their way to ask the president himself to pardon Joe! Straight to the top! He talks about how he abandoned his brother when he found out he was a criminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boy, this is a subplot. I do not recall the love affair of Cynthia Bernhammer and Nick Katzenberg from my youth at all, but it seems to be a Spectacular subplot, so I guess I could\u2019ve easily missed it. Our man\u2019s danger sense is inexplicably being set off by J. Jonah Jameson, on campus looking for Peter. JJJ\u2019s decided that reviving Now Magazine is now a war with Thomas Fireheart, and he wants Peter to quit The Bugle and join the magazine. But Peter\u2019s Spider Sense starts going crazy, and these days that means a splitting headache, so he wanders off, promising to call JJJ later. Soon, Spider-Man is swinging around, worrying that he can\u2019t help reacting to a danger sense that now seems to warn him even when a moth flies by, when Madison Square Garden flies by. Spidey assumes it\u2019s Graviton, but then spots The Wizard\u2019s antigravity discs. Knowing The Trapster usually works with The Wizard, he suspects something is up, but there\u2019s no time to worry about that right now as people are falling out of the famous venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I bet Iron Man is deeply embarrassed everytime he has to deal with these guys. Guess what, those eggs contain Spider-Man\u2019s true archenemy, gas, and he barely gets those people to the ground. Then Los Bros detonate all The Wizard\u2019s discs, dropping The Garden on Spider-Man. A unique problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whatever\u2019s meant to be happening, I don\u2019t get it. The next page doesn\u2019t help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did he catch it\u2026 telekinetically? Why all the webbing? What did he think he was doing? None of that made sense. Esposite keeps doing the webs on the top of his head upside down and it\u2019s really bugging me. As The Brothers come after him again, Spidey finally clears his head, talking about how his powers have been controlling him, but now he\u2019s controlling his powers as he webs the two z-listers and\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This comic seemed almost less interested in The Brothers Grimm than I was. Aside from providing Spidey someone to fight, they didn\u2019t do much. Barely got a sense of their personality or their deal, how or why they have powers, anything. With them down for the count and Doom still plotting away, we close on Peter Parker, having come home to a message that MJ is working late, eating a TV dinner alone on the floor of his living room, worrying that his life is out of control. Well, buddy, it\u2019s gonna stay that way for a while yet. This issue includes a letter from someone called \u201cBananas\u201d Corvello. Nothing really noteworthy in it, I am just delighted by the name. Come back next time for still more cosmic craziness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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