And then a month passed with no ASM on the stands. Because, as I understood it (I could be wrong, it’s been a long time) Joe Quesada is drawing the next story, and he’s 2 things: 1. An artist who was too noodley with detail long before he was 2. Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics. So, naturally, he’s blowing deadlines. This is far from the only issue that will be late in this time. Well, anyway, Kingpin and Spider-Man are squaring off in front of a prisonful of guys as Kingpin is basically just holding court, and Spider-Man is uncharacteristically silent.
Ron Garney draws a great Kingpin. Would that he did so in a good story. Spidey gives Fisk another silent round of beatings.
So stupid. Peter proceeds to silently dismantle Kingpin, giving him a beating so savage it shreds his clothes, stopping to remind him that he doesn’t have any superpowers, that he’s “just a fat man with an attitude,” which causes Fisk to lung at him and get whupped some more. The battered Kingpin can’t even get up when Peter demands he does, so…
And all these goons saw it, and word will spread, and it’ll ruin him, etc, etc, etc. He goes on to say that, when May dies, he’ll come back, and then he’ll do the dumb web thing he threatened to do. And tells all the assembled goons that if anyone else comes near his family, they’ll get the same.
Sure, sure, whatever. Back at the hospital (The hospital Peter initially said he couldn’t go to because everyone would recognize him, which he now goes to all the time), MJ asks him if he did what he had to do, and he says it’s all done for now.
Well, then, what happens next? Seems like next issue May should either die or live, since this is a 5 part story and this was part 4. And yet…