Angel Medina is back, but Clayton Crain remains on covers. Stegron the Dinosaur Man has appeared in exactly 2 comics since Lethal Foes of Spider-Man in 1993. And in an extended flashback to open the issue, he talks about how he exiled himself to “the furthest reaches of the Earth,” and found “the Rock of Life,” a magical asteroid that created all life on Earth, which he says you’ve probably heard myths about. I haven’t! So he sent it to the scientist Curt ate in part one, wanting it to transform New York into a crazy primal place. And now it is. Which just goes to show, you can take the villain out of the 70s, but you can’t take the dumbass 70s motivations out of the villain.
Punched Spidey so hard his nose disappeared.
This comic just really feels like it switched gears from grimdark horror show to a Bill Mantlo impression. I’m pretty baffled. Outside, Lizard and Vermin are still fighting, and Black Cat and Puma decide to fight them, also. Fight fight fight. 2 pages later, the reptile men are out cold, and again, the tone is light. Playful, even. This is so weird. This storyline started with cannibalism!
Fighty fight, then Reed contacts Spidey through his new onboard comms, telling him Stegron is just a symptom of the problem.
Reed tells Spider-Man the rock is three floor below him, and causing all this, so Spidey goes down there.
Now, I haven’t read every comic with this suit in it, but I don’t think it can do that. Well, Stegron is very upset, and actually crying about his plan failing, while Spider-Man is informed that he did all this on purpose and is shocked, like… did you think this was an accident? How did you think this happened? How dumb is Peter Parker.
A Black Cat/Puma romance based solely on the fact that have cat-themed super-identities is sort of dumb, but I don’t mind having them around, at least. More importantly, isn’t Billy still a Lizard? If Reed could cure Billy, couldn’t he cure Curt? Does anyone care? Probably not.