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Captain America #153 by Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema

feels like i just got thrown in the river and told to swim there's a lot of context here lmao. but thats just what starting a new run feels like in general. why doesn't falcon have wings

skipping straight to englehart's stuff so im not reading 149-152

#155

in its final moments the machine laments its semblance of life and for one instant understands that the base fear and desire of humanity could only be understood by a computer under the circumstance of "death"

#154, Len Wein & Sal Buscema

i tell ya that sandman costume is UG-LY

#153, Wein & Andru

ok this is really just a great great issue top notch but like peter man just TALK TO MARY JANE

#152 by Len Wein, Ross Andru, Mike Esposito, and Frank Giacoia

shocker is a quality super villain. also for the entire nypd it really is just on sight with Spider-Man huh

#151 by Len Wein, Ross Andru, and John Romita Sr.

ok so he was writing his name in the city lights i get that but like... why was he doing all that in what way does that benefit him

#150 by Archie Goodwin and Gil Kane

conway's gone so I'm just reading the rest of this for the love of the game. the clone stuff is resolved here in a way that is super comic booky but mostly works. that final beat is the only way it could have gone truly. good arc now let me at some more peter/mj stuff

#149

really a satisfying conclusion to this entire run. this is conway's last proper issue after all. i do want to know more about what becomes of the gwen clone. also great that they brought up the existential terror implicit in the clone situation and then peter basically makes an active choice to ignore it and live in his old reality lol

#148

...somehow i thought jackal just looked like that. like through a serum or something i was NOT prepared for a rubber mask. so wait was he wearing a mask on a mask on that bus????? miles????

#147

jackal wearing the bus driver face is so extra they did not need a whole bus full of civilians for this plan to work and he did not need a rubber mask he just wanted to do all that lmaooo

#146

sometimes all it takes is throwing a guy off a really tall building

#145

this was a lot of fun but i find it extremely tedious when a the events of another comic book happen mid-issue. like i don't wanna read marvel team up right now sorry

#144

well i guess you could say I'm a HUGE FAN of this issue

The Amazing Spider-Man #143 by Gerry Conway and Ross Andru

jonah's typewritten note complete with the 'stops' is genuinely so funny

#142

lame i know my goat quentin isn't dead. love to see a confident spidey playing with the villain after figuring out the puzzle though

#141

i love mysterio he's my favorite lil guy lmao

i would be so embarrassed if i was the grizzly peter you did not have to humiliate him like that omg

#139

da grizzly watch out (i have nothing to say about this issue)

#138

0/10 character design on mind worm take that guy all the way back to the drawing board

#137

really really good issue. green goblin does the dark knight bomb thing and peter figures it out on a hunch and no one dies this is why Spider-Man is the goat

#136

ITS DA GREEN GOBLIN BABYYYYYY

#135

imagine a guy so evil even the fascists don't want him.

unrelated but punisher (specifically this early punisher) is so cool and kind of silly even

The Amazing Spider-Man #134, Conway & Andru

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spidey cant help but accidentally reveal his secret identity via soliloquy

Giant-Size Super-Heroes #1, Gerry Conway & Gil Kane

Spider-Man calls morbius "morb old pal" in this one so at least a ten out of ten

#133 by Gerry Conway and Ross Andru

wish we had like one more page of resolution but still. some interesting ideas at play here!

The Amazing Spider-Man #132 by Gerry Conway, John Romita Sr, and Paul Reinman

conway is on fire with the quips today (pun intended) but the continual calling of attention to the three act structure, to the point of making said calling of attention the work's superstructure, just does not work

"Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away."

#131

BUT WHAT BECOMES OF DOC OCK

#130

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even if it wasn't doctor octopus, peter would still have been horrified to see his aunt marry another, move on from ben's death. he says mere panels earlier that he can't stop thinking about gwen. his own preventable tragedy, his own lover lost. to see his aunt make the step he is unable to would have always been a mortifying sight... even if the step wasn't taken with his arch nemesis