{"id":8999,"date":"2021-05-10T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T04:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=8999"},"modified":"2020-05-30T14:23:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T18:23:30","slug":"asm-331","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/05\/10\/asm-331\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM 331"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now here\u2019s a weird one. This is one of a few issues where a very dark ad was actually transferring ink to the facing story page and I put a kleenex in there to try to stop it. There is a 31-year old tissue in this comic. And look, those portrait squares are back. This one starts with Mary Jane being accosted in her home by an intruder who made a \u201cyou never know what the cat might drag in\u201d joke, so\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This ignores that after they broke up, she & Peter kept in touch, even as he & MJ were getting closer again, and she wasn\u2019t going bananas about it back then, but that\u2019s comics for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Someone almost repulsed by the sight of Spider-Man with his mask off doesn\u2019t strike me as the marrying type, but what do I know? I try to avoid posting this many pages in a row, but the following page is the one I was trying to protect with the kleenex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I mean, look at it. I had to do something. Curse you, Double Dragon II for the NES advertisement! Punisher and Microchip tell each other what happened last issue like they weren\u2019t there, and then we shift our scene to The Vault, where Eddie Brock committed suicide last month. But, guess what, when they go to do an autopsy, black goop comes spraying out of him and envelopes the doctor\u2019s hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uh. Ok. Venom does the usual \u201cI sure do hate killing innocents even though I do it all the time\u201d speech before stealing a doctor\u2019s clothes and ID and walking out of jail. Meanwhile, in the Bronx, Spider-Man has met up with The Punisher and is chilling in his van with him. Microchip has traced the drugs to a facility upstate, and Punisher is loaded up on non-lethal weapons since he doesn\u2019t want to hurt soldiers. So our guys are ready to roll. But also\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s funny. MJ\u2019s having a weird week. But when that lady storms outside, she\u2019s hit by a car, and onlookers think it seemed to speed up and hit her on purpose. That seems bad. Upstate, Spidey & Punisher discover they\u2019re breaking into not a military base, but a training academy full of kids. Spidey warns Frank that if he hurts any kids, he\u2019s going down, and then they head in. They\u2019re finding their way to the boss\u2019s office when a guard catches them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whatever you may think of Erik Larsen\u2019s art, there\u2019s no denying he can really pack some energy into a panel. Inside, they find a colonel who looks like Charles Bronson for some reason (His second appearance in the last month of posts??). After some threatening, Bronson reveals the truth: The US Government is stockpiling cocaine unless the gold standard collapses, so they can switch to a cocaine standard. This is legit the plot of this comic book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aaaaaaalright. If you say so! They soon find the gym of the academy piled to the rafters with crates of coke, and not long after, find those crates are guarded by killer robots, and through some very splash-page-y action scenes, they start destroying them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He\u2019s fine, don\u2019t worry. Punisher rigs the gym to explode while Spider-Man pulls the fire alarm to make sure no kids get hurt, and then it\u2019s time for fireworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Criminy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Double criminy! Triple, even! Erik Larsen can\u2019t go one panel without hypersexualizing a woman. Ah, well, I can\u2019t control who draws the books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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