penciled by John Romita Jr.
inked by Scott Hanna
colored by Marcio Menyz
The mystery box behind Peter Parker's current status quo with Mary Jane, established in last year's Nth reboot of The Amazing Spider-Man, is now that much closer to being opened, with key revelations being made here.
In this issue, it is revealed what Peter Parker stole from the Fantastic Four (which was mentioned in issue #1) and why he stole it, and it is also revealed why Kamala Khan has been working with Norman Osborn and Peter Parker. Basically Peter did anything and everything he could to get back to Mary Jane, whom he had, a few issues back, left trapped in another dimension with a genocidal godlike after being forced out of that dimension. When he did make it back to her, well, something else was revealed.
I will devote a separate spoiler post to this issue, from which there is quite a bit to unpack, even before the insanely-hyped up issue #25, but in this very brief, spoiler-free review, I really want to give my two-cents' worth and it's that while I recognize that, as a matter of personal history, Peter Parker has always had terrible luck, which is another way of saying the writers, artists and editors of the last sixty years of Spider-Man stories have collaborated to make his life consistently miserable, this story direction represents a new low, even for the meanest of writers and editors. This story twist reaches One More Day levels of cruelty to this character, and while I am going to see this through to its conclusion, I am definitely not happy with what they have done.
1/10
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