written by Zeb Wells
drawn by Patrick Gleason
colored by Marcio Menyz
So this story arc ended several issues ago, magnified by the fact that this title comes out twice a month, and I stayed away from comic books for a while to focus on work. With the Christmas holidays coming I find I have a little time to myself to write some long overdue blog posts.
So black-suit clad Peter, infused with the sins of Norman Osborn thanks to a magical spear created by Kraven and his new lover, Ashley Kafka's clone aka the Queen Goblin, goes on a rampage against the person who hurt him most: Mary Jane Watson and Zeb We---err Paul Rabin. Things look set to end in tragedy, but Kraven and Norman team up to do the unthinkable: stop Spider-Man.
Of course Peter wouldn't kill MJ, or Paul, or anyone while under the influence of Norman Osborn's evil essence. For all of editorial's pretensions that they want to shake things up in Peter's life (i.e. keep him miserable), there are some lines even they won't cross. Most readers will know how this turns out; Norman and Kraven teamed up to extract Norman's evil from Peter, but not before Peter dropped MJ's beau Paul from a bridge (only to have her save him). Anyway, nothing happened here that would require another laborious retcon, but unfortunately Wells' jackass of a new character is still around.
Patrick Gleason's art is still great; next to Ed McGuinness this guy has provided a reason to keep coming back to this book no matter how annoying Wells' writing gets, but when Jonathan Hickman and Marco Chechetto finally unleash their version of Ultimate Spider-Man next year I wonder if I'll still have the patience to stick around.
8/10
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