Backing up; backing down

Spider-Man, 5/11/13 After the serial failures of his high-tech missile, “hypno”-gas, and “adamantium” chains, Kingpin resorts to old-school methods of persuasion like threatening to stone-cold bash a woman’s face in. Spider-Man is quick to comply — but then, “not moving a muscle” is pretty much his core competence. Dick Tracy, 5/11/13 So it looks like [...]

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