{"id":8804,"date":"2021-04-20T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=8804"},"modified":"2020-08-20T15:19:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T19:19:58","slug":"asm-328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/04\/20\/asm-328\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 328"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now it\u2019s getting out of hand! Another bought by my uncle, maybe? Not sure. I\u2019d have told you I bought it off the rack if not for the sticker. Hulk having a green tongue always struck me as an odd choice. It really draws attention. David Michelinie, Todd McFarlane, Bob Sharen on deck as The Hulk takes a seat in the desert. The Hulk is still Joe Fixit like his last chronological appearance in WEB 44<\/a>, still grey, still Bruce Banner\u2019s \u201cadolescent\u201d persona to green Hulk\u2019s child, only now they\u2019ve reverted to the Hulk\u2019s original deal from his earliest appearances, where Banner is normal during the day and becomes Hulk at night. Thanks to The Grey Gargoyle failing to beat him in his own book (Who thought that would work???), the villains know where Hulk is, and Sebastian Shaw has come to visit. Introduced in X-Men as The Black King of The Hellfire Club, Shaw lost that title to Magneto several years prior to this, and carries a grudge. He believes Mags had the gang send him to fight Spider-Man hoping he\u2019d die, but he has other plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…New York, where we wind back the clock a few hours to see Spider-Man scoping out some terrorists planning to blow up The Statue of Liberty. He thinks about how cliche that is, and then laments that something so crazy could ever become cliche. He thinks about how the storm that kept police helicopters away did nothing to stop him now that he can fly, and worries about his powers a little more before starting to take the villains apart using his new Can Do Anything Webbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tim Burton\u2019s Batman was still a raging cultural phenomenon when this issue was produced, ya see. Our guy flies back to the city, happy no one was seriously hurt, and switches to Peter Parker so he & Mary Jane can join Flash Thompson and another doomed-to-fail romance for dinner. This one is rude and horrible at dinner, terrorizing wait staff and wanting to smoke. Lucky for Pete & MJ, she has 5am shoot for her show, and Peter\u2019s decided to tag along, so they can\u2019t spend the rest of the evening with Flash and his unfortunate date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ya think McFarlane intended that hand gesture to be like \u201cgasp!\u201d but that\u2019s silly so Michelinie covered for it? Kinda looks like it. Hulk lands on the street, thinking he\u2019s got nothing against Spidey but the money is too good as he picks up an ambulance and throws it. Shaw assured him the other heroes would be busy, so this would get Spider-Man\u2019s attention. And it does, as his new Can Do Anything Webbing snares the truck and lowers it so safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Again, what do we think Spidey\u2019s (very tiny) hand gesture is supposed to mean? \u201cBring it on?\u201d Another yawn? Why didn\u2019t he get a line? Hulk tells Spider-Man to meet him at the ruins on Roosevelt Island tomorrow night as he flees the scene, smashing the ambulance as he goes. Spider-Man has to deliver its stabbing victim to the hospital, so he can\u2019t follow. Soon, Bruce Banner finds himself in an alley with no shirt, shoes or money, cursing The Hulk. He and Peter Parker make their way through the day as best they can, Banner trying to avoid trouble, Peter unable to concentrate on school. Sebastian Shaw reads a newspaper that tells him Hulk failed, but thinks he\u2019ll give him one more chance. The paper has smaller headlines such as \u201cLIEFELD ON MUTANT BOOK,\u201d \u201cCOCKY MCFARLANE TRIES TO WRITE?!\u201d and \u201cWHO\u2019S ALAN MOORE?\u201d Bit of a hint at the artist\u2019s future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You sure aren\u2019t gonna see any kids smoking in a modern superhero book, I\u2019ll tell you that. Hulk and Spider-Man mix it up, Spidey using his new eye beams to blind his foe, and that\u2019s when those kids run out, one of them brandishing a bat and threatening The Hulk, the other trying to stop him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To da moon, Alice! That red Hulk presages things to come. It\u2019s also a good example of the kind of feel\/emotion-based coloring you don\u2019t get in modern comics. Is Hulk red? No. Does making him red give that panel a definite vibe? Absolutely.  Back home, Peter worries some more about his crazy powers, telling MJ he hates them. And as he watches his goons load Banner on a plane back to Nevada the next day, Sebastian Shaw thinks Spider-Man can\u2019t stay this powerful, and wonders if there\u2019s a way he can make these new powers go away. Can he? Will he? We\u2019ll just have to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Todd McFarlane really began to build his rep on Hulk. he\u2019d done a bunch of other stuff at both Marvel and DC, but his Hulk run led to Spider-Man, and Spider-Man ensured he\u2019d become one of the richest comic creators in history. Fitting that his last issue of ASM would also have Hulk in it. But this isn\u2019t McFarlane\u2019s last Spider-Man comic. More on that in Block 28. For now, next time we\u2019ll get more of the saga of Spider-Man\u2019s powers in another Spectacular that\u2019s all-new to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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