Suddenly Manuel Garcia gets to do his own covers for the last 2 issues. We pick up basically where we left off last month.
Brutal. The Corruptor was a villain from Nova comics in the 70s, and has appeared in a whopping 10 comics before this series. Well, while terrible things are happening there, Roz and Spider-Man are still talking. She wants to know if he’s going to ruin this business so many vulnerable people depend on to bring her to justice, but he counters she’s already endangered them by making enemies of a bunch of crazy villains. Then he takes a call from Cap, and has to explain he’s kind of an Avenger now, something he’s obviously not used to.
Thus we flashback to her working with Cross and the CIA on his thing, and him ingratiating her into the group before they began, surprise, a doomed romance. They tested his very unethical brainwash-as-rehab device on criminals, and one of his coworkers got salty about their relationship.
While that’s going on, Crossfire’s gang is setting up for a truly evil plan, with Crossfire mindcontrolling a bus stop full of kids & parents from Roz’s building onto a stolen school bus, Mandrill trapping a bunch of female tenants in the laundry room, Controller making a team from the electric company set up a perimeter around the building, and Corruptor is still back there making Courtland kill all his employees. He shoulda been quicker about it, tho.
The U-Foes stop Courtland from killing anyone else so he can tell them what he told Crossfire, so things should be heating up soon. Back at the building, Roz has gotten to the important bit.
Uh-oh. Looks like Spider-Man might need some help getting out of this one. It all wraps up next time.