Is that creature on the cover supposed to be May? Why do people hire Clayton Crain? It looks like an emaciated Conan the Barbarian. May’s forearm looks more powerful than mine. To my surprise, Rick Hoberg swaps in for breakdowns. I thought Weeks did both of these. Ah, well!
Why is a guy who seems to be on the brink of death himself doing this Spider-Man pose on the roof? Come on.
This kinda feels like character assassination. Brock killing some poor nurse (I got the reference) for no reason? He used to pretend it wasn’t his fault when he killed cops and stuff, but a nurse?I don’t think he’d do it. But I’m not in charge. Hoberg, at least, occupies a similar space with Weeks. If anything, his stuff is darker and grittier, which seems like what this story wants. Outside the room, we see someone was running a loud vacuum to cover the screams, what luck, and then we go back in to find Eddie having done the deed. The Venom in his head convinces him she deserved it. And then that May deserves it for raising Peter.
Dogg, you drag Anna Watson into this disaster without giving us so much as a scrap of her reaction to this whole thing? Really? Rude. They begin the dopey ritual, and Clayton Crain draws the visions. Peter returns to his memory of the night Ben died.
Both Peter and May’s perspectives are pretty valid, but May is the only one being realistic. She’s almost died a million times, and “died” once. It’s not fair, but that’s life. At least for the next few minutes, as Eddie is creaking into her room. He slips out of his doctor’s coat and puts the mask on at Venom’s urging.
Don’t tell him to have so many children, May, the economy is about to collapse.
Upstairs, Eddie is hesitating, and Venom is telling him has no choice. Then we see the gang filing out of the room they were in, like Peter isn’t a wanted fugitive, Aunt Anna chatting with Black Cat, of all people in this assemblage, and then Peter finally feels something is wrong. When he rushes into May’s room, we see Eddie’s mask draped over the railing of the bed.
Me, I kinda think letting the guy with the voice in his head telling him to kill people die of deceleration trauma as opposed to being chipped away slowly and painfully by cancer is maybe a mercy. But what do I know? When he inevitably gets his groove back, at least they only have to cure his cancer instead of bringing him back from the dead.