Seems Clayton Crain is never far from this title for the duration. But he’s just doing covers here for a bit.
Comparing Electro to Hitler is a bit much!
It wasn’t too very long ago in this very title that all Spider-Man’s enemies learned his identity in that stupid, stupid Mark Millar run, but that was wisely ignored, so they all get to learn again, I guess. Why is Peter starting a fight in a crowded museum like a jerk?
Why’s Peter wearing clothes if the suit can look like anything? I feel like no one but Tyler Kirkham got told that bit.Electro says he tried a new look once, but it didn’t stick, a clear reference to that terrible John Byrne suit. Spider-Man says his suit can track Electro’s energy signature, so that how he found him and decided to ruin this museum (He doesn’t say that part). He then tells Electro if he destroyed one more piece of art, “it’ll cost you your teeth.” Dude, YOU chose this location! He can tell Electro is lying when he says he’s not working with the others due to his new suit.
Whatever. Meanwhile, in Soho, MJ’s rehearsal of MacBeth is finally interrupted by Swarm, who really took his time hanging out up in the rafters.
I think it’s always crucial to remind people that Swarm is a Nazi. Just in case a man made of bees wasn’t over the top enough, he’s also a Nazi.
Hey, Mary Jane, you’re the one who pushed him to do this, you and May. It’s a good thing she’s had so much experience dealing with supervillains over the years. Elsewhere, to my genuine shock, Chameleon is flashing back to the LAST time he found out Spider-Man’s identity, in that TAC story where MJ beat him with a bat. And then he forgot, and now he remembers, and he’s very angry. I’m not sure why, honestly. But he’s gonna go kill Aunt May, apparently. While he works on that, Spider-Man is now swinging around with Black Cat, who claims she’s so mad at him because he didn’t give her a heads up before unmasking, as if that… matters at all.
There’s no reason he had to warn her. Also, still no one drawing the web coming from a nozzle on top of he glove but Ron Garney.
Well, I’m glad he at least went to see MJ before this. Peter asks Felicia if she can help protect his family in a more discrete way while he’s trying to draw the baddies out into the open, but then he gets a call from Liz (Now AllAn) saying Molten Man kidnapped Normie (When is that kid NOT being kidnapped?) and will only give him back if Spider-Man comes. Sooooo Spider-Man and Black Cat are on the case. At Liz’s house, Scarecrow, Will O’ The Wisp and Molten Man are hanging out holding onto Normie, who looks way, way, way older, while elsewhere…
That doesn’t seem good. I’m sure May can just clock him with a teapot like she did Man-Wolf.